Applied AI Engineer

New York City. Posted 10 months ago

The role

As the first engineer, you will take full ownership of anything AI at Squad. You will build recommendation systems, design AI agents, and fine-tune models on proprietary hiring data.

What you will do

Take full ownership of technical vision, execution, and decisions for AI
Collaborate directly with the founder to define product and team needs
Build recommendation systems that predict candidate-job fit
Design AI agents that automate recruiter and ops workflows
Fine-tune models on proprietary hiring data
Create evaluation and simulation environments to measure match quality
Define work across matching, automation, and infrastructure

Required qualifications

3+ years of software engineering experience
Track record of shipping full-stack AI/LLM features in production
Proficiency with modern AI/ML technologies (LLM APIs, embeddings, vector databases, fine-tuning)
Experience in a high-intensity, high-velocity environment

Nice to have

High ownership
Comfort with ambiguity
Bias toward shipping

Benefits

Competitive compensation
Meaningful equity
Health insurance
Unlimited PTO
Lunch at the office every day
Dinner after 7pm

About the company

Squad uses AI to aggregate signals from recruiters to match candidates to roles. The company is based in New York and has raised over $5M from various investors.