Founding Applied AI Engineer

Remote
Full-time
Visa Sponsorship

About the role

  • We are looking for a Founding Applied AI engineer to join the team. The ideal candidate is someone with 5+ years of experience. We are looking for someone that has built AI driven workflows, agents, or applications from the ground up to serve specific business outcomes. 
  • We are looking for ownership and evidence of architecting the technical foundations of AI first products that drove significant business value. You’d interface directly with the co-founders and would be treated as an equal as helping to drive these outcomes at Saphira.
  • Experience with integrating AI into production codebases. Hands-on experience with prompt engineering and a strong understanding of how AI relates to the problems we are trying to solve. Ability to understand and architect AI workflows that lead to delightful customer experiences. 
  • Enhance our retrieval-augmented generation (RAG) capabilities, ensuring our models effectively integrate and utilize diverse data sources.
  • Tech Stack: OpenAI, LlamaIndex, RAG, Llama open source models
  • Bonus points: 
    • Ex-founder (raised venture $)
    • Built product as a founding engineer
    • Worked at a software for hardware company or hardware company

About Saphira AI

The Enablement Layer for Physical AI

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Job details

Salary

$100,000 - $150,000

Equity

0.5% - 2%

Location

Remote

Experience

6+ years

Company

NameSaphira AI
IndustryEngineering, Product and Design
Team Size7

Funding

Total raised

$500K

Last stage

Seed

Investors

Y Combinator
Creative Destruction Lab
468 Capital
OOrange Collective
Soma Capital

Founders

Akshay Chalana

Akshay Chalana

Co-Founder & CEO

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Oscar Avatare

Oscar Avatare

Co-Founder

LinkedIn

What happens next.

No applications, no recruiter spam. Just the intro.

01

Confirm the fit

A few questions to make sure this role is the right shape for you. Two minutes.

02

I pitch you to the company

I write the intro, send it to the founder, and handle the back-and-forth.

03

A meeting lands on your calendar

If they’re a yes, I book the chat. You show up — that’s the whole job-hunt.