Applied AI Engineer

We’re a venture capital firm with an in-house venture studio, built to turn bold ideas into venture-scale startups. Beyond direct investments, we operate at zero-to-one; teaming up with operators, engineers, designers, and domain experts to validate real-world problems and build from scratch.

Over the past three years, Fund I has backed 70+ startups; not just with capital, but with hands-on support to engineer real wins across BioHealth, B2B SaaS, AI, and beyond.

We’re looking for a Applied AI Engineer with strong technical skills, product instincts, and the ability to dive into complex system design. You’ll be hands-on with multiple early-stage projects across our venture studio, helping us validate opportunities and bring AI-driven products to life.

What you’ll do

• Build core modules: Develop and maintain AI-powered features and systems across our in-house venture projects.

• Optimize AI systems: Improve performance through prompt engineering, retrieval-augmented generation (RAG), tool design, and scalable agent architectures.

• Prototype rapidly: Validate new product ideas by shipping quick, testable prototypes that inform venture direction.

• Engineer evaluation pipelines: Design automated evaluation systems to measure and improve model and product reliability.

• Work full-stack: Contribute across the stack — from front-end evaluation dashboards and user-facing tools to backend systems (databases, caching, microservices).

• Operate in hyperdrive: Switch contexts across multiple ventures, iterating quickly and collaborating with cross-functional founders and teams.

What we’re looking for

• Strong programming fundamentals and a bias for clean, high-quality code.

• Proficiency in Python and familiarity with AI/ML frameworks (e.g. LangChain, Hugging Face, PyTorch, TensorFlow, OpenAI APIs).

• Solid backend knowledge: databases, caching, message queues, microservices.

• Comfort with frontend prototyping for internal tools, dashboards, or MVPs.

• Proven ability to work on zero-to-one products, ideally at startups or studios.

• Strong written and verbal communication; our team is fully remote.

• Experience with evaluation pipelines, vector databases, or applied ML in production.

What we’re offering

• The opportunity to build multiple companies from the ground up

• Deep collaboration with serial founders, designers, engineers, and investors

• Remote-friendly, with flexible work hours and collaborative rituals

• This is a contract role with the potential to transition into full-time employment, offering a competitive salary plus equity in the ventures you help launch

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