Founding AI Engineer
Vibranium Labs
Software Engineering, Data Science
New York, NY, USA
USD 125k-175k / year + Equity
Posted on Mar 17, 2025
✨ Why Work With Us?
- 🚀 Join a dynamic team led by industry veterans from top tech companies with a history of successful exits.
- 🔍 Be part of a mission-driven startup that is redefining the on-call engineering landscape with groundbreaking AI technology.
- 💡 Work in a fast-paced, high-energy environment where innovation and creativity are encouraged.
- 📈 Opportunity to grow with the company and significantly impact our direction and success.
🛠️ Responsibilities
- Design, fine-tune, and optimize large language models (LLMs) specifically for on-call engineering and reliability use cases.
- Continuously conduct greenfield research in the AI space, advise the founding team on the roadmap, and help strengthen the AI fluency of the the team overall.
- Collaborate closely with product engineers to develop end-to-end AI-powered workflows that are reliable, responsible, and highly performant against measurable metrics.
- Build and optimize robust data infrastructure to process high-volume structured and unstructured system data.
📋 Qualifications
- 5+ years of experience with software engineering and at least one year specifically with modern LLMs (e.g., Claude, GPT-4, Llama 3) OR 3+ years working more generally in AI/ML.
- Strong proficiency in Node.js, Python, Go, or Kotlin, and extensive experience building distributed systems and cloud infrastructure.
- Proven data engineering expertise with large-scale data pipelines, embedding strategies, vector databases, and search technologies for AI applications.
- Solid understanding of machine learning fundamentals, including transformers architecture, deep learning principles, and self-supervised learning approaches.
- Bachelor's degree in Computer Science, AI, or related technical field; Master's or PhD preferred.
➕ Additional Information
- Base salary will be based on experience and in the range of $125k-$175k, combined with founding hire equity.