About the role
What it means to be an early engineer
Joining Vellum this early means that you’re going to play a huge part in guiding both the technical and cultural evolution of the company. Together, we’re going to face the hardest technical challenges this journey has to offer head-on. As the team grows, you’ll be the battle hardened expert that everyone looks towards for guidance.
With great power comes great responsibility 🙂
What you’re signing up for
- Tackling our most difficult (and interesting) problems - prompt chaining, fine-tuning infrastructure, and multimodality, just to name a few
- Designing, architecting, and building robust critical infrastructure
- Owning our most important backend systems
- Defining and scoping green-field projects that move the company forward
- Working closely with customers to understand what the need, figuring out how to make them successful, and owning the solutions end to end
- Serving as a cultural pillar of the team
- Navigating a fast-moving, highly competitive landscape
Our stack
In case you’re curious:
- Google Cloud Platform - as our cloud provider
- Postgres - as our primary database
- Python - what we write our backend in
- Django - for our webservers
- Flask - for our microservices
- Typescript - what we write our frontend in
- React - as our frontend framework
Working at Vellum
- We’re laser focused on helping companies bring AI into production and providing real business value. Decision making is simple: if what we do allows our users to increase how many use cases of AI they’re able to successfully put into production, then we do it!
- Don’t just cut corners. Cut the right corners (i.e. reduce scope, not quality). What can you do with 10% of your time to get 90% of the desired impact? Now that you only spent 10% of the time on this task, imagine how much more can be done with the rest of your time!
- Everyone is a 1000x engineer/designer/pm when they’re passionate about the problems they’re solving and love the people they’re working with
- Because we trust each other, we can move fast and have fun doing it 😄
About Vellum
Vellum is an enterprise AI development platform that helps companies build, evaluate, and deploy mission-critical AI products and LLM-powered applications. It provides a unified suite of tools — including workflow automation, prompt engineering, testing/evaluation, and production monitoring — to help teams take AI from prototype to production. Customers include enterprises such as Drata, Redfin, Headspace, and Swisscom.
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Job details
Salary
$140,000 - $200,000
Location
New York, NY
Experience
3+ years
Funding
Total raised
$25M
Last stage
Series A
Investors
Founders
What happens next.
No applications, no recruiter spam. Just the intro.
Confirm the fit
A few questions to make sure this role is the right shape for you. Two minutes.
I pitch you to the company
I write the intro, send it to the founder, and handle the back-and-forth.
A meeting lands on your calendar
If they’re a yes, I book the chat. You show up — that’s the whole job-hunt.