AI Engineer

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**AI Engineer** *Location: San Francisco* ### **About Pathwork** Pathwork is redesigning life & health insurance jobs for the AI age. We believe the 2.5M professionals in the $1T life and health insurance industry don’t need better tools; they need a new operating system. We’ve already proven it: - 100+ top brokerages and national carriers use Pathwork - Active pilots with multiple top-10 insurance companies - 150%+ QoQ growth, every quarter since launch Built from day one as AI-native, Pathwork uses agentic orchestration, structured data pipelines, predictive models, and generative AI to transform insurance distribution—bringing speed, structure, and intelligence to outdated workflows. ### **Why Join Us** - **Category-defining product** already in use by national brokerages and insurers - **$3.75M in funding** from top VCs - **Deep founder experience**: Work closely with experienced founders who’ve built and scaled companies from zero to IPO in insurance and AI - **Scenic, focused, intentional:** Work from the Presidio in SF or our Domino Park office in Brooklyn—spaces built for walking meetings, deep work, and ambitious thinking. - **Early team, deep ownership, real impact:** You’ll shape the systems, the stack, and the trajectory of the product. - **High-trust & Long-term oriented:** Grow with a team that values trust, authenticity, learning, and lasting impact. Your contributions will help shape our product, culture, and the long-term legacy of the company. ### **Our Stack** Python · TypeScript · Node.js · FastAPI · Postgres · Qdrant · LangGraph · Whisper · AWS (Lambda, EC2, ECS, S3) · Terraform · React · Next.js ### **About the Role** We’re hiring an AI engineer, a full-stack, strategic builder who can take a large project from a working prototype to an industry-defining product. You’ll lead development of our agentic AI systems, owning model orchestration, retrieval, real-time inference, evaluation, and production infrastructure, and collaborating closely with the founding team on product and technical strategy. ### **What You’ll Own** - **Build the engine:** Design and own end-to-end agentic systems—retrieval, orchestration, inference, eval, and feedback loops - **Scale the stack:** Shape our architecture across model interfaces, data pipelines, vector DBs, and streaming infrastructure - **Ship fast:** Partner with product and design to prototype, test, and launch AI-driven features that deliver real value - **Improve performance:** Continuously optimize accuracy, latency, and robustness through fine-tuning, eval frameworks, and data iteration - **Learn from the field:** Join sales and customer calls to understand real-world pain points, pressure-test features, and translate feedback into product improvements - **Support growth:** Build infrastructure and tools that help the whole company move faster—debugging, observability, agent testing - **Build your team:** Hire, mentor, and collaborate with engineers who care about craft, velocity, and real-world impact ### **You Might Be a Fit If You...** - **Have 5–10 years of experience** building AI or ML-powered systems, ideally in high-growth or early-stage environments - **Have shipped real products** that use LLMs, retrieval, orchestration, or streaming inference—not just prototypes - **Think full-stack, end-to-end:** You’re comfortable moving between modeling, infra, and product-facing code - **Have an entrepreneurial mindset** and thrive on building from scratch—systems, processes, tools, and the team - **Can explain complex ideas clearly,** especially to non-technical teammates, customers, and stakeholders - **Thrive in ambiguity** and take ownership in fast-paced, high-trust environments - **Bonus:** Experience with vertical software businesses or agentic AI systems ### **What You’ll Get** - Competitive comp + meaningful equity - Employee-centric benefits including: - High 401(k( match and FSA program - Modern, employer-paid health benefits designed to support you on your terms - Real ownership, autonomy, and direct collaboration with the founders - A chance to define a category and shape a product from scratch - You'll work side-by-side with the founding team, shape our rituals, and help create the moments and memories that define our company.