Founding AI Engineer

NOSCEN INC.
Sunnyvale, CA, United States
2 months ago
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Role details

Contract type
Permanent contract
Employment type
Full-time (> 32 hours)
Experience level
Experienced
Experience required
2 years minimum
Compensation
$150,000.0 - $250,000.0
Working hours
Regular working hours
Job source

Tech stack

Application Programming Interfaces (APIs) Artificial Intelligence Amazon Web Services Systems Engineering Microsoft Azure Python (Programming Language) Open Source Technology Large Language Models Multi-Agent Systems IT Architecture Backend Kubernetes
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Virtual Agents Docker

Job description

As a Founding AI Engineer, you will own the entire intelligence layer of this vision from scratch. You will drive the end-to-end implementation of a highly personalized AI assistant across multimodal signals, context engineering, memory, and actions, while shaping an AI architecture that fiercely protects user privacy and data boundaries.

  • Multimodal Context Understanding: Build AI systems that understand real-world user context from multimodal inputs
  • Memory & Personalization Infrastructure: Design context and memory systems that support deep user insights and personalization over time.
  • Retrieval & Reasoning: Develop systems that reason over the right context at the right moment to help the product assist users timely and usefully.
  • Productization of AI Pipeline: Build and own the pipelines, model workflows, APIs, storage, evaluation, monitoring, and privacy-first data handling behind all of it.
  • Cross-function Collaboration: Work closely with product, design, and engineering to turn ambiguous human needs into robust AI capabilities.

Requirements

Do you have experience in Teamwork?, Do you have a Bachelor’s degree?, * Bachelor’s degree or above in CS or a related field

  • At least 3 years of full-time work experience in related field
  • At least 2 year of Gen AI experience building and shipping applied generative AI systems end to end
  • Hands-on experience building and shipping AI systems with LLMs, VLMs, or multimodal models, including the ability to run, adapt, and evaluate open-source models such as DeepSeek, Qwen, Llama, or similar.
  • Deep understanding of context engineering - RAG, memory systems, embeddings, retrieval/ranking, MCP servers, agent frameworks, or other ways of making models reason over context they did not see in pretraining.
  • Strong Python and backend/systems engineering ability. You can stand up pipelines yourself and take ambiguous ideas all the way to working systems.
  • Action-driven: when you hear a vague idea, your hands start moving.
  • Absolute ownership in a fast-paced and high-intensity start-up environment
  • Clarity of thought, excellent communication

Bonus

  • Experience with Docker, Kubernetes, or major cloud platforms such as AWS, GCP, or Azure.
  • Early-stage start up experience

Benefits & conditions

Pulled from the full job description

  • Referral program
  • 401(k)
  • Health insurance
  • Retirement plan
  • 401(k) matching
  • Vision insurance
  • Health savings account, * Competitive base salary
  • Meaningful early-stage equity
  • Comprehensive health, dental, and vision coverage
  • Immigration support: H1-B and green card sponsorship available for qualified candidates

Pay: $150,000.00 - $250,000.00 per year, * 401(k)

  • 401(k) matching
  • Dental insurance
  • Flexible schedule
  • Flexible spending account
  • Health insurance
  • Health savings account
  • Life insurance
  • Referral program
  • Relocation assistance
  • Retirement plan
  • Vision insurance

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