Founding Prompt/Context Engineer

About the role

We’re seeking an LLM engineer with hands-on experience in architecting strong prompting for agents. This role isn’t as much of a customer-by-customer prompt tuning, but rather building scalable AI infrastructure for our computer agents through context, prompting, and adjacent backend engineering.

Responsibilities

• Design custom prompt frameworks for our various core infrastructure agents.
• Build smart context engineering. This will be a mix between backend work and smart system design.
• Realistically, anything that touches an LLM is in your realm of design. How can we tackle safety, reliability, and latency at scale.
• Technical Leadership: Drive technical decisions and architecture design, shaping the foundation of our solutions.
• Cross-functional Collaboration: Work closely with co-founders and other team members to translate business vision into actionable project plans.
• Ownership: Take full product ownership from ideation to launch, including integration into existing systems.

Requirements

• Startup Experience: Strong preference for candidates with prior startup experience. Former founders are especially valued for their entrepreneurial mindset and problem-solving skills.
• Prior Experience: 2-10 years of hands-on general engineering + context engineering experience.
• Green Flag: Leading agent development at prev. high-impact startups/companies
• Educational Background: Ideally, candidates should have attended a college ranked in the top 50 in the United States.
• Backend Skills: Strong background in JS/Typescript and Python (we also build voice agents!)
• Frontend Skills: Proficiency in Next.js.
• Cloud Platforms: Familiarity with AWS and Postgres.
• Scalability: Familiarity with Docker is a big plus.
• Regulatory: Basic or professional experience with HIPAA is useful.

Qualifications

• US citizen/visa only

Skills

• Python
• TypeScript
• Prompt Engineering

Benefits

• Competitive Compensation: Base salary plus equity
• Gym Membership
• Wellness allowance
• Full health, dental, and vision coverage
• Livewithus in a dedicated 3,500 sq. ft. hackerhouse.
• A large snack supply

Pay

$150K - $250K

Schedule

Full-time