Founding AI Engineer

About Nowadays:

We're building the future of in-person connection, from an intimate exec offsite to a 1,000-person company kickoff in Cancún.

Think about the best work trip you've ever been on. The dinner where your team finally clicked. The offsite where a coworker became a friend. Those moments don't happen over Zoom, and behind every one of them is someone juggling a hundred details: the venue, the flights, the hotel rooms, who's bringing a +1, who's vegetarian, who needs a ride from the airport.

Nowadays is the first AI-powered platform that plans corporate events end to end, from picking the venue to the last airport pickup, so the person organizing gets to enjoy the event too. We've brought together teams at Fortune 500s like Google, Airbnb, and BlackRock, and we're just getting started.

Our mission is simple: we love bringing people together, and we want to make it easier for teams to create meaningful moments in real life.

As a Founding AI Engineer, you'll play a pivotal role in shaping our tech, product, and culture — and in building the future of how people gather.

💼 What You’ll Do:

• Build and scale AI systems that automate our event-planning workflow end-to-end
• Develop and scale AI agents for auto-emailing, calling, web scraping, and deep research
• Improve accuracy and reduce hallucinations across our LLM-powered features
• Design and implement scalable AI workflows using modern LLM frameworks and tools
• Work with real customer data to identify automation opportunities and validate AI solutions
• Build evaluation systems to measure and improve AI performance over time
• Partner closely with product and ops teams to understand pain points and ship AI features that matter
• Shape our AI/ML architecture and practices from the ground up

🥇 What you’ll bring:

• Experience building and deploying AI / LLM systems in production
• Strong proficiency in Python and modern AI/LLM frameworks (LangChain, LlamaIndex, etc.)
• Deep understanding of prompt engineering, RAG, and techniques to improve LLM accuracy
• Experience with AI agents, tool calling, and autonomous systems
• Comfort with full-stack development and shipping features end-to-end
• A bias toward action—you like moving fast, experimenting, and iterating based on real-world results
• Excitement about pushing the boundaries of what AI can automate in complex workflows

✨ Bonus Points

• Experience building AI web agents or browser automation systems
• Zero-to-one AI product development experience
• Familiarity with evaluation frameworks and AI observability tools
• Published research or contributions to open-source AI projects

🥰 Why Nowadays?

Compensation & Benefits

• Working Times: US (PST) Hours
• Must be based in San Francisco
• $130K-$170K
• 0.5% - 2% equity

The amount listed above is the expected annual base salary for this role, subject to change.

All of our employees get:

• Free lunch and dinner
• Quarterly team offsites (yes, we went to the White Lotus S3 hotel in Thailand)
• Monthly fitness stipend
• Health insurance
• 12 weeks paid parental leave
• Generous PTO with required time off to recharge
• High ownership, autonomy, and direct access to founders
• Access to top venues, events, and travel experiences