Role Overview

We're seeking a Senior AI Engineer to join our fast-paced team to design, develop, and implement new features for Littlebird, our personalized AI teammate for Mac and Android. This position reports directly to the technical leadership team and will play a crucial role in designing and implementing new AI features and infrastructure as we grow.

Our team is well-funded >$5m, small and growing - this is a great time to join and contribute to foundational aspects of our growth! We speak a few languages, love to collaborate, and like to build things that we enjoy using. Our co-founders have experience building data, consumer hardware, and interactive products, including selling a previous venture for ~$250m.

Key Responsibilities

Work closely with R&D and Product leads to design scalable architecture

Prove out AI feature ideas, iterate on them, and integrate when they're ready for prime time

Contribute to novel systems in the areas of knowledge graphs and contextual learning

Create tooling that helps AI systems minimize mistakes through static analysis and deterministic techniques

Build and own features that will produce value for our customers

Required Skills

At least 5 years of applied ML Engineering or ML Platform experience, including recent hands-on work with LLM’s, RAG, vector DB’s, and transformers

Strong OOP skills in at least two of the following: python, Typescript, C++, Java, or Rust

Strong communication, documentation, and teamwork skills

Ability to learn new technologies rapidly and share relevant insights with your team

You love to ship features and deliver for customers; you’re excited about owning and leading major parts of the product and roadmap.

Desired Experience

Prior startup experience, shipping products 0-1 and/or owning major parts of a production-grade codebase

Experience leading architectural discussions, discussing tradeoffs, designing integrations and test plans

Experience with real-time data processing, search, or informational retrieval systems