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Role Details
Company: US-headquartered AI technology startup
Location: San Francisco Bay Area, CA
Employment Type: Full-time
Work Arrangement: On-site, 6 days per week
Salary: $200,000–$400,000 base
Experience: 0–5 years (new graduates welcome)
Visa Sponsorship: Available, including eligible visa transfers and new sponsorships
Hiring Target: 5 engineers
Tech stack: Data Pipelines, AI Agents, LLM Evaluations, Synthetic Data, Claude Code, Distributed Eval Infrastructure
About the Company
An early-stage AI technology company helping enterprises in engineering, life sciences, and medicine automate complex workflows. The company partners with leading AI research labs to improve model performance through real-world data, synthetic datasets, and model evaluation.
About the Role
The company is seeking technically strong engineers to build data pipelines, automation systems, and AI-powered workflows. The role combines hands-on software engineering with direct collaboration with AI researchers and enterprise customers.
Engineers will help design datasets, develop automated production systems, evaluate model performance, and ensure data quality meets research requirements.
Responsibilities
Build and maintain data pipelines, AI agents, and workflow automation systems.
Collaborate with AI lab researchers to define dataset requirements and evaluation criteria.
Develop automated processes for generating tasks, reference outputs, and validation checks.
Review datasets, identify inconsistencies, and investigate model failures.
Improve data quality and evaluation methods through testing and feedback.
Work directly with enterprise customers, researchers, and domain experts.
Translate research requirements into practical technical solutions.
Requirements
0–5 years of software engineering experience.
Strong programming skills in Python, TypeScript, or similar technologies.
Experience building AI applications, data pipelines, or automation systems.
Background in a leading tech company, startup, or quantitative trading firm.
Strong communication skills and ability to work directly with clients.
Must be available to work on-site in the San Francisco Bay Area; relocation assistance is not offered.
Benefits
Base salary of $200,000–$400,000.
Competitive equity package and commission.
Opportunity to work directly with leading AI research teams.
Visa sponsorship and eligible visa transfers supported.
Interview Process
Initial screening with the hiring manager.
60-minute technical system design interview.
One-day on-site project and presentation.
Offer and hiring.
🌍 Remote from anywhere in the globe
Workplace, Culture & Diversity
Corporate culture is essential to allow the organization to differentiate itself. In terms of image on the one hand, it has strengths both internally and externally to consumers. It is indeed a source of cohesion and motivation of employees and it limits conflicts. With customers, it conveys a positive image and can develop a feeling of closeness to the company or even become a criterion of choice.
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