AI Engineer

Summary

Join BlackCloak, a rapidly growing company pioneering digital executive protection, as a Founding AI Product Engineer. You'll play a crucial role in integrating AI technologies like LLMs and embeddings into the core product and business operations. This position offers the opportunity to experiment, prototype, and influence the AI strategy from the ground up while collaborating with a highly motivated team. You'll be responsible for designing and testing new AI-driven capabilities, delivering AI-powered product features and business workflows, becoming the go-to AI expert, making key decisions on AI infrastructure, and establishing best practices for AI and software engineering in a high-growth startup environment.

Requirements

• 5+ years of software engineering experience, with a strong AI/ML focus
• Hands-on experience with both paid and open-source LLMs, embeddings, and natural language technologies
• Deep understanding of data pipeline technologies (Spark, Flink, Kafka, etc.)
• Proficiency in Google Cloud (Vertex AI) or AWS AI/ML technologies
• Strong foundation in taking AI models from research to production
• Exceptional problem-solving and critical-thinking skills
• Excellent communicator & team player—collaborate with engineers, product and executives
• Startup experience or an entrepreneurial mindset—a desire to build and innovate!

Responsibilities

• Prototype & Experiment: Design and test new AI-driven capabilities, pushing the boundaries of what’s possible
• Ship Impactful Features: Work across engineering, operations, product and security teams to deliver AI-powered product features and business workflows
• Lead AI Innovation: Become the go-to AI expert, continuously learning and educating the team on LLMs, embeddings, and AI advancements
• Own Technical Direction: Make key decisions on AI infrastructure, architecture, and model deployment
• Build & Scale Engineering Standards: Establish best practices for AI and software engineering in a high-growth startup environment

Benefits

• 100% Remote Company, within the USA
• Comprehensive Medical, Dental, and Vision plans with 100% employer-paid monthly premiums for employees & 50% employer-paid monthly premiums for dependents
• Health Savings Account with company contribution for eligible medical plans
• Flexible Vacation Plan
• 10 Paid Company Holidays
• 100% employer-paid Life, AD&D and Short- and Long-Term Disability Insurance
• 401k with Traditional and Roth options, including employer match
• Company Equity
• Paid Parental and Pregnancy Recovery Leave
• Company and team off-sites and virtual events throughout the year
• Home office stipend