Founding Agentic AI Product Engineer

About the role

This role sits at the intersection of AI engineering, product design, and systems architecture, responsible for implementing agentic AI capabilities while shaping the structure and user experience of the entire platform.

Responsibilities

• Build AI agents end to end, including multi-step workflows for: taxonomy ingestion and cleanup, chemical and part classification and CAS lookup, entity resolution and attribute extraction, benchmarking across suppliers, SKUs, and regions, automated supplier outreach, negotiation preparation, and communication, purchasing automation and exception handling
• Architect modular agentic pipelines using LLMs, RAG, embeddings, and deterministic logic to ensure reliability and actionability
• Define intuitive, powerful product flows that unify data cleaning, benchmarking, agent actions, and user decision-making into a coherent experience
• Collaborate with the founder and engineering team to translate messy customer problems into crisp, scalable product patterns and reusable AI components
• Design the intelligence layer and core data model, including taxonomies, schema, semantic relationships, and supplier or part hierarchies
• Implement LLM and RAG pipelines for synonym resolution, unit of measure normalization, multi-language parsing, attribute extraction, and CAS-level matching
• Build evaluation, monitoring, and guardrail systems to ensure agents are accurate, safe, auditable, and enterprise-ready
• Ensure the platform complies with rigorous data handling requirements including anonymization, tokenization, SOC II principles, and GDPR alignment
• Influence the long-term product direction, shaping the evolution into a broader industrial operations AI layer

Requirements

• 6-8 plus years experience in AI engineering, ML systems, or technical product roles
• Demonstrated ability to build agentic workflows or multi-step AI systems
• Great design & product judgment, ownership of major product lines in earlier companies
• Can build at 10x speed using tools like Cursor and ship high-quality features extremely quickly
• 0 to 1 startup experience (Seed to Series B) shipping real product fast
• Ability to write production-grade code (Node, Python, TypeScript) and build quickly
• Strong product instinct with the ability to design clean, scalable user flows
• Experience architecting systems: data models, pipelines, services, agent frameworks
• Experience integrating LLMs, RAG, embeddings, and semantic search
• Bias toward action and rapid iteration
• Desire to build a B plus enterprise AI company and own a meaningful piece of it

Qualifications

• Exceptional technical and execution ability
• Strong ownership mentality

Skills

• Agentic systems
• AI-driven workflows
• Product design
• Systems architecture
• LLM integration
• RAG pipelines
• Evaluation and monitoring systems
• Data compliance
• Product development

Benefits

• Foundational role influencing core architecture and product direction
• Opportunity to shape the future of industrial operations AI
• Ownership of a meaningful piece of a growing B plus enterprise AI company

Pay

TBD based on experience and qualifications

Schedule

Full-time