What are the responsibilities and job description for the Founding AI Engineer – Agentic AI, Shipping, Production position at Avacend, Inc.?
Title: Founding AI Engineer – Agentic AI
Location: New York, NY (Hybrid)
Employment Type: Full-Time
Employment Type: Full-Time
About the AI Engineer role:
- We’re hiring a Founding AI Engineer for Resolvd AI, an early-stage AI company building an autonomous workforce for the healthcare supply chain
What You’ll Do
- Build and ship production-grade LLM and AI agent systems.
- Work on agent orchestration, state management, tool use, evaluations, and failure handling.
- Turn complex customer workflows into reusable AI platform capabilities.
- Work with messy, unstructured enterprise data in healthcare and other verticals.
- Collaborate directly with the founder and help shape the product and technical architecture.
What We’re Looking For
- Strong hands-on software engineering experience with recent production coding experience.
- Proven experience building and shipping LLM/agentic AI systems — beyond prompt engineering.
- Experience with technologies such as LangGraph, DSPy, Inspect, Anthropic SDK, OpenAI SDK, or similar.
- Experience with vertical AI, particularly healthcare, finance, insurance, or legal.
- Experience working with unstructured data and complex enterprise workflows.
- Previous experience as an early engineer at a startup is highly preferred.
- Public AI/agent work such as GitHub repositories, technical blogs, talks, or OSS contributions is a strong plus.
- Comfortable working in a small, fast-moving founding team and reporting directly to the founder.
Ideal candidate:
- A Founding Engineer / Forward Deployed Engineer / Staff-level engineer who is still hands-on, has shipped production AI agents recently, and wants significant ownership in an early-stage company.