Founding Level AI Engineer - Start-Up

Join a well-funded, consumer-focused (dating related) startup building next generation AI powered experiences. This is an opportunity to be part of a small, high caliber team where your work directly shapes the product, the user experience, and the company’s trajectory.

We’re looking for an AI Engineer who thrives in fast-paced environments, ships quickly, and cares deeply about quality, reliability, and craft. The founder comes from a leading dating website.

• Compensation: $200K–$300K base + meaningful equity
• Location: Onsite in New York City
• Work Environment: Highly collaborative, in person team culture

Responsibilities

• Design, refine, and maintain prompts, structured outputs, and orchestration systems that power core AI features.
• Build evaluation infrastructure to measure AI quality at scale using tools such as Langfuse, TensorZero, and Promptfoo.
• Partner closely with product, engineering, and research to translate AI capabilities into polished, user-facing features.
• Run structured experiments across models, prompts, and configurations to optimize for quality, cost, and latency.
• Develop internal tools—dashboards, admin interfaces, debugging workflows—that give the team visibility into system behavior.
• Identify opportunities to finetune open source models (SFT, DPO, RLHF) to improve performance and reduce cost.

Requirements

• 1–2+ yearsbuildingLLM-powered products in production
• 1–3 yearsin software or ML engineering.
• Proven experience shipping, deploying, and monitoring AI applications over time.
• Comfort working in an early-stage environment where ownership is high and iteration is fast.
• Experience with recommendation systems or consumer-facing products.

Qualified candidates, please send your resume to Ilana Raz at For more opportunities, please visit