What are the responsibilities and job description for the Founding Applied AI Engineer position at Weekday (YC W21)?
Job Summary
You’ll build the next generation of production-grade AI systems—agents that reason, act, and operate reliably in messy, real-world environments. This role focuses on designing and deploying Agentic AI, RAG pipelines, and LLM workloads in production, with an emphasis on reliability, safety, and integration into core product workflows.
- Design and ship Agentic AI systems
- Build RAG pipelines and tool-using agents
- Deploy and monitor LLM workloads in production
- Focus on evaluation, reliability, and safety
- Integrate AI into core product workflows
- Work closely with founders and customers
Required Qualifications
- Experience shipping AI systems to real users
- Deep familiarity with agents, RAG, and orchestration
- Python-first development experience
- Production ML / LLM operations experience
- Comfort operating in early-stage environments
- Experience with LangGraph / Temporal / orchestration frameworks
- Vector databases
- HIPAA / SOC-2 compliant systems
- Terraform / Kubernetes
- Edge or real-time AI systems
- Full-time position
- Location: San Francisco / New York
- Salary: $150k to $300k
- Role stage: Seed → Series B
Salary : $150,000 - $300,000