Founding Applied AI Engineer

Worldwide Placement Limited operates as a recruitment agency connecting top talent with leading organizations to make a significant impact on the global job market.

Industry: Information Technology - Computer Software

Job Category: Information Technology

Role facts

• Domain: AI agents / growth marketing

• Work arrangement: San Francisco California United States; on-site

• Work authorization: Visa sponsorship is not available; US work authorization is required.

• Education: No explicit degree requirement in the public JD

• Equity: Not specified

Candidate Details

Seniority Level - Mid-Senior

Management Experience Required - No

Minimum Education - Other

Willingness to Travel - Never

Youll be the companys first senior AI hire owning the quality and intelligence of our multi-channel marketing agents end to end. Working directly with the founder youll shape agent architecture evaluation systems and learning loops while building out the AI team from the ground up. This role is critical to scaling the reliability and effectiveness of agents operating across SEO content social and search channels.

• Improve agent output and content quality across Reddit LinkedIn X and article writing with evaluation systems that make quality measurable.

• Improve SEO and generative engine optimization (GEO) performance.

• Design feedback loops that enable agents to learn from real-world results and performance signals at scale.

• Improve AI infrastructure agent architecture model strategy and the data pipelines that power them.

• Hire and lead the AI team as the organization grows.

• 3 years building production ML or AI systems with recent hands-on work shipping LLM products or agents.

• Proven experience designing evals and learning from outcome signals at scale in domains like search ranking or recommendations.

• Strong TypeScript () and Python proficiency for data analysis evals and model work; you ship end to end.

• Sharp judgment about output quality and the ability to make it measurable and actionable.

• Ownership experience in a startup or small team environment.

• Search or ranking experience particularly with Google or AI answer engines.

• Background from a leading AI lab or top research program.

• Marketing or go-to-market experience is a plus. Candidates with recommendation systems algorithms or reinforcement learning experience are also relevant; a marketing background is not required.

Skills and Certifications note: bold skills and certification are required
TypeScript

Python

Compensation

Base Salary - Competitive

Full-time

Benefits - None

Relocation Assistance Available - No

Commission Compensation - No

Bonus Eligible - No

Overtime Eligible - No

Interview Travel Reimbursed - No

Why this employer is a great company
Startup building AI marketing agents. Hiring a Founding Applied AI Engineer for the responsibilities described in this role. San Francisco California United States; on-site.

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