Hybrid Principal AI Engineer

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About the role

  • You'll work directly with CEO Vetri Vellore to build our AI operating system from the ground up.
  • This means you'll touch everything - from designing multi-agent architectures and LLM orchestration, to building production systems, to shipping features that directly impact enterprise customers.
  • This is a roll up your sleeves and build something from scratch role alongside engineers from IIT, Stanford, and other top-tier institutions who ship production AI daily.

Requirements

  • 7+ years building production software with at least 2+ years deeply focused on LLMs, agents, or AI-native applications
  • Expert proficiency in Python and experience with React/Next.js for AI-powered UIs
  • Experience shipping agentic systems to production.
  • Experience with RAG implementations: Hybrid search, Re-ranking, context optimization, and retrieval quality measurement.
  • Designed and architected distributed systems at production scale.
  • Proven ability to influence technical direction across multiple teams while mentoring engineers
  • Track record of driving ambiguous, high-impact initiatives from concept to measurable business outcomes
  • Effective collaboration across distributed teams spanning US and India time zones
  • Bachelor's or Master's degree in Computer Science or related field, or equivalent experience with demonstrable technical excellence
  • Contributed to open source AI projects or published research
  • Background in high-scale distributed systems
  • Based in or willing to relocate to San Francisco Bay Area.

Benefits

  • Significant equity stake at early stage (15 people = meaningful ownership)
  • $26M runway, paying enterprise customers, sustainable path—build the right product, not chase next fundraise
  • Work with founders who've built and sold companies—they know what matters
  • Day one: You'll be shipping code to production—we deploy daily
  • First week: Your code will be running in production for enterprise customers
  • First month: You'll own major features that thousands of users depend on
  • Six months: Your architecture decisions will define how enterprises operate with AI
  • Collaborate with engineers from IIT, Stanford, and top-tier institutions who've scaled systems to millions
  • Take ownership of technical decisions with real autonomy—strong opinions backed by evals get shipped
  • AI-native culture: use Cursor and Claude Code for development, Claude Code reviews PRs, ship AI features weekly
  • Flat structure, direct feedback, open technical debates—better ideas win
  • If you want FAANG stability, this isn't it. If you want to define a category, it is.

Job title

Principal AI Engineer

Job type

Experience level

Lead

Salary

$275,000 - $350,000 per year

Degree requirement

Bachelor's Degree

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