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Applied AI Engineer
Permanent•on-site•San Francisco•$120k - $250k+ 0.1% – 0.4%
Summary
Location
San Francisco
Salary
$120k - $250k
Equity
0.1% – 0.4%
Type
Permanent
Workplace
On-site
Experience
1-7 years
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About This Role
We’re looking for a self-starter who loves building new products in an iterative, fast-moving environment. As a Founding AI Engineer, you’ll report directly to the cofounders and work closely with product and engineering. You’ll bring our smartest matchmaking AI to life, design chat agents that feel human, and create internal tools that other AIs use to reason, retrieve, and act. This is an early, high-ownership role (<10 people on the team) where your decisions will define our agentic system’s foundations.
What you'll do
- Ship agentic matchmaking from research to production—own the end-to-end loop (retrieval, reasoning, tool use, safety) and drive measurable accuracy improvements.
- Build a prompt & model evaluation harness (offline + online) to compare prompts/models/policies, support A/B testing, and enable fast iteration.
- Optimize AI chat systems for lower latency, higher perceived “human-likeness,” and more consistent outcomes across providers.
- Design and maintain context engineering pipelines (RAG, memory, summarization, compression, grounding) for conversations and matchmaking.
- Stand up observability for agents (traces, costs, failures, hallucinations, guardrails) and create dashboards that guide product decisions.
- Collaborate daily with the cofounders and product to translate user problems into agent behaviors, experiments, and shipped features.
- Write clear, maintainable code; create small internal tools and SDKs other engineers (and AIs) will use.
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Frequently Asked Questions
What does Ditto AI pay for a Applied AI Engineer?
Ditto AI offers a competitive compensation package for the Applied AI Engineer role. The salary range is USD 120k - 250k per year, plus 0.1% – 0.4% equity. Apply through Clera to learn more about the full compensation details.
What does a Applied AI Engineer do at Ditto AI?
As a Applied AI Engineer at Ditto AI, you will: ship agentic matchmaking from research to production—own the end-to-end loop (retrieval, reasoning, tool use, safety) and drive measurable accuracy improvements.; build a prompt & model evaluation harness (offline + online) to compare prompts/models/policies, support A/B testing, and enable fast iteration.; optimize AI chat systems for lower latency, higher perceived “human-likeness,” and more consistent outcomes across providers.; and more.
Is the Applied AI Engineer position at Ditto AI remote?
The Applied AI Engineer position at Ditto AI is based in San Francisco, United States and is on-site. Contact the company through Clera for specific work arrangement details.
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