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Founding Applied AI Engineer - Data

$150K–$400K

New York City · On-site · Full-time · Posted Aug 13, 2026

About the job

Builds production data and AI systems for enterprise customers while developing repeatable tooling that makes this work faster across customers.

What you'll do

  • Build production models and end-to-end pipelines that make fragmented enterprise data usable for AI, including serving, retraining, and monitoring.
  • Integrate LLMs into production data pipelines and evaluate output quality and reliability.
  • Develop internal data tooling and make technical decisions about data models, storage, orchestration, and infrastructure.

What they ask for

  • Strong experience in some combination of Data Science, Data Engineering, and Machine Learning.
  • Ability to design systems combining real-time streaming and batch/warehouse data under latency constraints.
  • Fluency evaluating ML metrics, skepticism toward data quality, and ability to investigate raw records.
  • Fluency with AI-assisted coding tools, sound independent verification, product instinct, and comfort working directly with customer teams.

Nice to have

  • Experience building agentic or automated data-engineering tooling; hands-on experience with Databricks or Kafka.
  • Experience with healthcare or other complex regulated enterprise data, LLM structured extraction pipelines, or startup, founding, or forward-deployed work.

Pay

$150K – $400K (base salary)

Tools

Databricks, Kafka, AUC, precision/recall, confusion matrices

AI focus

Build AI-ready data assets, production ML systems, and LLM-integrated pipelines; develop agentic or automated data tooling.

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First seen Oct 29, 2026 · Last verified Nov 4, 2026 (UTC)