Founding AI Engineer

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This range is provided by Falconer. Your actual pay will be based on your skills and experience — talk with your recruiter to learn more.

Base pay range

$200,000.00/yr - $300,000.00/yr

At Falconer, we’re transforming how engineers create, access, and share knowledge. 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 won’t just help shape our product development—you’ll have a seat at the table to define Falconer’s technical direction and culture.
Key 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
  

Who you are:

• Degree in Computer Science, Data Science, Engineering, or equivalent work experience
• Minimum of 2 years of 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
  

Bonus points:

• 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
  

Perks and benefits:

• 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/remote work for the right candidate
• Our current office is in San Mateo, 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.
Compensation Range: $200K - $300K

Seniority level

• Seniority level

  Entry level

Employment type

• Employment type

  Full-time

Job function

• Job function

  Engineering and Information Technology

• Industries

  Technology, Information and Internet

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