Founding AI Engineer

Jobright Ai — United States · Posted ~2 hours ago

Lead

Skills

Agentic AI systems Data pipelines Memory systems Contextual planning Model evaluation Infrastructure AI system reliability LLMs AI agents Model evaluation infrastructure

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Summary ✨ AI‑Generated

Join an early-stage AI company as a founding engineer building agentic systems for a specialized business domain. You will design data and memory infrastructure, develop contextual planning and automation capabilities, evaluate model performance, and rapidly ship production features while working closely with the founding leadership.

Highlights

Founding-level ownership with direct influence on architecture, product decisions, and go-to-market fit. The role offers the chance to build production AI systems, work closely with the founding team, and have substantial user impact.

Description

This role is part of the Jobright TNT - the private hiring network connecting top talent with top AI startups like Perplexity, Mercor, Cresta, Suno and 150 more. This is not a mass job posting. Only select, high-signal candidates are invited to Jobright TNT and recommended directly to hiring teams Hiring Company: Nexhelm AI One-liner: Nexhelm AI is building an AI digital coworker for wealth management firms, aiming to reduce manual effort and improve accuracy. Why Join Us: Role Responsibilities • Build and optimize agentic systems for financial business domain knowledge, task automation and decision support • Design and implement data pipelines, memory systems, and contextual planning logic • Prototype fast, test in production, and ship features that directly impact users • Own infrastructure for evaluating model performance, latency, and reliability • Collaborate closely with the CTO and founding team on architecture, product decisions, and go-to-market fit Qualifications Required • Strong software engineer with 3–5+ years of experience, ideally with a focus in ML, NLP, or AI systems • Hands-on experience with LLMs and agentic frameworks (i.e. LangGraph), prompt engineering, fine-tuning, or vector DBs (e.g., Weaviate, Pinecone) • Experience building and scaling software systems in production • You think in systems and care deeply about both performance and usability • Startup-ready: you move fast, have strong ownership, and can thrive in ambiguity Preferred • Experience with enterprise SaaS, productivity tools, or knowledge workflows • DevOps familiarity: Docker, cloud infrastructure, CI/CD, observability How can I join Jobright TNT: If this is your first time applying to a Jobright TNT role, the process works as follows: 1. Apply to your first Jobright TNT role 2. We review your background to determine if you meet the TNT quality bar 3. If qualified, your application is directly recommended to the employer 4. Once accepted into TNT, you may be: - Invited to apply for other exclusive TNT-only roles - Invited to private, invite-only hiring events with top startups You will be notified of your TNT selection result. PS: All Jobright TNT roles are 100% real, directly hired by top AI startups we partner with, and come with priority review and higher response rates than the normal application queue.