Staff Engineer, Data and AI Remote | Full Time | 180K to 220K per year plus Equity We are a fast growing, self funded consumer startup building an AI powered mobile experience in the personal development space. Our founding team includes a globally recognized author and an experienced technical founder with a prior exit. We recently launched and are seeing strong early traction. We are hiring a Staff level engineer to architect and scale the intelligence layer that powers personalization, product insight, and user trust. This is a high ownership role working directly with the founders at a pivotal stage of growth. The Role You will own the architecture and evolution of our data and AI systems, ensuring they are scalable, reliable, and built with privacy and trust at the foundation. What You Will Do Data and Infrastructure • Architect and own end to end data pipelines and AI infrastructure • Design scalable ingestion, transformation, and real time processing systems • Ensure reliability, observability, and long term scalability • Build systems with privacy and security as first principles AI and Personalization • Develop and ship LLM powered product features • Design retrieval systems using embeddings and vector databases • Improve latency and performance of real time inference workflows • Create internal tooling to accelerate experimentation and iteration Evaluation and Experimentation • Establish frameworks for measuring model quality, safety, and user impact • Build rigorous experimentation infrastructure to support product decisions • Translate ambiguous product ideas into production ready systems Technical Leadership • Set architectural direction across AI, data, and backend systems • Mentor engineers and elevate engineering standards • Help define long term AI strategy as the company scales What We Are Looking For • 7 plus years of software engineering experience with deep expertise in data systems and applied AI • Experience shipping LLM or ML driven features into production • Strong understanding of prompt design, retrieval architectures, embeddings, and vector databases • Experience building scalable, low latency systems for personalization or real time inference • Strong product instincts and comfort operating in ambiguity • A user first mindset and interest in building thoughtful, human centered technology Preferred experience includes modern Python based stacks, cloud infrastructure, and event driven systems. Why Join • Direct collaboration with experienced founders • Meaningful ownership at an early, high growth stage • Fully remote Benefits • Competitive Base Salary: $180,000 - $220,000 • Equity - massive upside joining a small, fast growing startup! • Full Medical Package Apply tot his job