AI Engineer

Summary

Join SOULCHI, a values-driven startup, and embark on a journey to shape a more sustainable world. As an AI Engineer specializing in multimodal AI, you will develop vertical AI agents with conversational and voice capabilities, integrating LangChain/LangGraph frameworks on Vertex AI. You will build emotion-aware dialogue systems, optimize voice AI pipelines, and design real-time conversational interfaces. The role requires expertise in cross-modal fusion techniques, LLM fine-tuning, and affective computing. You will also focus on performance optimization, developing efficient APIs and auto-evaluation systems. This is an equity-based position with flexible hours, transitioning to salary + benefits at break-even.

Requirements

• 3+ years building production AI systems
• Mastery of Vertex AI stack (Pipelines, Model Garden, tuning tools)
• Strong background with frameworks like LangChain / LangGraph
• Proficiency in conversational and voice AI
• Experience with vertical agent development (domain-specific reasoning)
• Demonstrated success in latency optimization for real-time AI
• Shipped 2+ AI products with conversational/voice components
• Experience with ethical AI validation

Responsibilities

• Build domain-specific wellness agents with coaching reasoning capabilities
• Implement agentic frameworks (LangChain, LangGraph) for RAG systems
• Develop specialized memory architectures for long-context personalization
• Create emotion-aware dialogue systems using speech/text inputs
• Optimize voice AI pipelines (ASR/TTS) with emotional prosody control
• Design real-time conversational interfaces for Flutter apps
• Engineer cross-modal fusion techniques (voice tonality + text sentiment)
• Fine-tune LLMs (Gemini, Claude) for emotional alignment and ethical responses
• Research affective computing methods for cultural sensitivity
• Develop Firebase-integrated APIs (Python/Node.js) with <300ms latency
• Implement cost-efficient inference architectures (<$0.0005 per interaction)
• Build auto-evaluation systems for conversational quality

Benefits

• Equity-Based Compensation Opportunity
• Flexibility in working hours