Recruiting from Scratch is a specialized talent firm dedicated to helping companies build exceptional teams. They are seeking a Software Engineer, AI to operate at the intersection of backend engineering, data systems, and applied AI, focusing on building production-grade AI capabilities and driving AI-driven product initiatives.
Responsibilities:
- Take ownership of new AI-driven product initiatives, particularly in marketing and personalization
- Design and build backend systems that leverage LLMs and light ML to generate insights and content from large-scale customer data
- Prototype and ship AI-powered features quickly, working closely with executive leadership and a small, high-impact team
- Develop infrastructure to evaluate, experiment with, and deploy different LLMs and AI methodologies
- Contribute to building an AI agent capable of:
- Surfacing unique data-driven insights
- Identifying high-propensity or at-risk users
- Generating marketing content and campaign recommendations
- Translating analytics into clear, actionable outputs
- Help define best practices around where and how AI should (and should not) be used in production systems
- Influence the long-term product roadmap by shaping foundational AI capabilities
Requirements:
- 3–6+ years of software engineering experience building and shipping production systems
- Experience working on AI/ML-driven or data-intensive products in startup environments
- Strong backend engineering fundamentals (e.g., distributed systems, APIs, data processing)
- Hands-on experience working with LLMs and modern AI tooling in production environments
- A track record of shipping 0→1 products or features
- Comfort operating in fast-paced, high-growth environments with evolving requirements
- Clear communication skills and the ability to reason about trade-offs in AI system design
- A high degree of ownership and intellectual curiosity around emerging AI technologies
- Experience at high-velocity, venture-backed startups (Series A–D+)
- Experience building AI-powered product features beyond basic chat or simple RAG implementations
- Familiarity with experimentation frameworks, prompt engineering, model evaluation, and applied ML
- Background in computer science, engineering, mathematics, or a related technical discipline
- Experience collaborating cross-functionally with product, data, and business stakeholders
- Located in or open to occasional travel to the San Francisco Bay Area