Falconer
Founding AI Engineer
1y ago
200000 –300000 USD / yearUSAMiddlemachine learningpythonnode.jsapiknowledge graphembeddingsvector searchmodel optimization
Founding AI Engineer role focused on building an AI-powered knowledge platform with responsibilities across product development lifecycle and backend system development.
Responsibilities
- Participate in the entire product development lifecycle, including architecture, coding, testing, and deploying
- Research and apply best practices in terms of Knowledge Graph, embeddings, vector and graph RAG search, fine-tuning, and model optimization
- Develop and maintain backend systems including API services, databases, and server-side logic
- Optimize tech stack and applications for maximum precision and speed
- Write clean, efficient, and well-documented code, following industry best practices— the Falconer platform will help you!
- Stay updated with emerging technologies in web development and make recommendations for adopting new tools and practices
Requirements
- Advanced degree in Machine Learning, Computer Science, Data Science, Engineering, or equivalent work experience
- Minimum of 2 years of professional experience in developing ML data pipelines
- Experience with text embeddings, RAG systems, and similarity search
- Familiar with Entity and Relationship recognition models
- Skilled at prompt engineering
- Ability to implement backend systems in Python and/or Node.js
- You can evaluate tradeoffs and propose the most appropriate storage solution (SQL, NoSQL, Vector DBs, Graph databases)
- You enjoy hard problems and open-ended assignments
- You use data to make decisions, and experiment your way around hard problems
Nice to have
- You've developed products with LLMs before (extra if you've already built your own agents)
- You have fine-tuned foundational models to tailor responses to specific data use cases
- You have experience with LlamaIndex and Memgraph to produce knowledge graphs
Conditions
- Generous equity package
- Competitive salary and benefits
- 401(k) retirement account
- The best equipment and tools, like a spec'd out MacBook, and dev prod tools like Cursor, Claude, and Linear to help you move fast
- Flexible work arrangements with in-office work or hybrid work for the right candidate
- Our current office is in San Francisco, just steps from Caltrain
- At Falconer, we value diversity and equal opportunities. We welcome applicants from all backgrounds and are committed to creating an inclusive workplace. If you are passionate about technology and thrive in a challenging environment, come join our team and help us shape the future of work communication.
Other
- At Falconer, we’re transforming how engineers create, access, and share knowledge with each other and their AI agents. We’re looking for a Founding AI Engineer to help us build an AI-powered knowledge platform that companies love.
- As a founding engineer, you'll have a major impact on our product development, technical direction, and culture.