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# AI Engineer

- **Company:** Walden Robotics
- **Location:** San Francisco, CA, United States
- **Contract:** Permanent contract
- **Skills:** Artificial Intelligence, Business Analytics Applications, Systems Engineering, Information Engineering, Cursor, Python (Programming Language), Open Source Technology, OpenAI, BIG-IP Global Traffic Manager (GTM), Large Language Models, Claude Code, Langfuse — LLM Observability and Analytics Platform, Agentic-AI, Data Strategy, Software Coding, Api Management
- **Published:** November 11, 2026
- **Apply:** https://www.careerbuilder.com/job-details/ai-engineer-san-francisco-ca--e26e744b-2ea5-4e10-b8bb-a3f5d10ef356

## About the Role

Artificial Intelligence (AI), Systems Engineering, Competitive Analysis/Strategy, Artificial Intelligence (AI), Customer Relationship Management (CRM), Due Diligence, Automation, Prototyping, Strategic Planning, Fundraising, * CS or Engineering undergraduate degree.

 * Track record owning ambitious AI-native projects end-to-end at a frontier startup or research lab, with the ability to operate without close supervision under uncertainty.
 * Demonstrated expertise building production agentic workflows with modern AI tools (Claude Code, Codex, Cursor, OpenAI / Anthropic Agents SDK, open source tools).
 * Experience in Python, data engineering, API integrations, and workflow automation.
 * Experience with LLM evals, observability, and optimization (Langfuse, Weights & Biases).
 * Comfortable context-switching between technical implementation and strategic thinking, and between writing code and writing prompts.

Preferred Qualifications:

 * Domain knowledge in robotics, autonomous vehicles, enterprise AI, or similar markets.
 * Track record building 0 to 1 analytical tools that drove important business decisions.
 * Experience in venture capital, corporate development, or strategic consulting.

## Description

We're looking for an exceptional AI Engineer to be a force multiplier for the Strategy org and a major contributor to Walden's internal agent platform. This is a hybrid role for an AI-native operator who builds modern agentic systems with extreme ownership and equal comfort across the technical and the commercial. You'll split your time roughly 80% on strategy-org workflows (deal sourcing and qualification, GTM automation and CRM Ops, market intelligence, due diligence, context management) and 20% on the shared internal agent infrastructure, working alongside our systems engineers to make every Walden operator agent-augmented. You'll close the feedback loop on agents you own, design self-improvement loops, and make your work reusable across the company.

Core Responsibilities:

 * CSO direct collaboration: Serve as the CSO's thought partner on agentic systems for strategic initiatives, prototype analytical frameworks fast, and execute special projects spanning GTM, partnerships, fundraising, modeling, and customer-data strategy.
 * CSO vertical agents (~80%): Design and ship AI agents and pipelines for market mapping, segmentation, customer discovery, deal-flow management, contract triage, executive comms, market intelligence, and CRM automation. Use a stack combining Anthropic, OpenAI, custom LLM pipelines, internal and external data sources, and modern CRM integrations. Build the single source of truth that powers strategic KPIs and executive decisions.
 * Internal agent platform (~20%): Co-develop the shared infrastructure that lets other Walden teams build and run their own agents safely and observably. Ship reusable patterns and primitives the rest of the company adopts.
 * Cross-functional integration: Bridge strategy, finance, product, engineering, and operations through direct collaboration, real-time dashboards, scenario planning, and workflow automation. Translate technical reality into commercial framing and back.