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Karumi (YC F25)

AI/ML Applied Engineer

Karumi (YC F25), San Francisco, California, United States, 94199

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Base Pay Range $120.00/yr - $180.00/yr

Opportunity Join our AI engineering team in the United States to build the core intelligence behind our platform. You’ll work at the intersection of voice AI, browser automation, and large language models—creating agents that can listen, speak, navigate interfaces, and interact naturally with users in real time.

This role combines cutting‑edge AI with practical systems work. You’ll design voice experiences, build browser agents that understand and control web applications, and optimize LLM behavior for production reliability. We ship working AI features that solve real problems, balancing innovation with pragmatic constraints.

We sponsor visas for qualified candidates.

Core Responsibilities

Build and optimize voice AI systems using speech‑to‑text and text‑to‑speech models

Design browser agents that navigate, understand, and interact with web applications

Implement browser automation with computer vision and DOM understanding

Engineer prompt systems and LLM workflows for consistent, intelligent behavior

Create evaluation frameworks to measure voice quality, agent accuracy, and user experience

Integrate multimodal AI—combining voice, vision, and language understanding

Build real‑time AI pipelines where latency and reliability are critical

Monitor and improve AI system performance in production environments

Technical Requirements

Production experience with LLMs (OpenAI, Anthropic, or open‑source models)

Hands‑on work with speech AI (STT/TTS systems like Deepgram, ElevenLabs, Whisper)

Experience with browser automation (Playwright, Puppeteer, Selenium) or computer vision

Strong Python skills with async programming and real‑time systems

Understanding of prompt engineering, retrieval systems, and agent frameworks

Ability to debug complex AI behaviors and build observability tools

Software engineering fundamentals for production AI systems

Nice to Have

Experience building autonomous agents or multi‑step AI workflows

Knowledge of computer vision for UI understanding and visual grounding

Fine‑tuning or training language models for specialized tasks

Real‑time audio processing and streaming architectures

Background in NLP, machine learning research, or AI systems

Why Karumi

Meaningful equity stake in a backed, fast‑growing company

Work on cutting‑edge voice AI and browser agents in production

Shape how AI systems interact with users and software interfaces

Small team with direct impact on core product capabilities

Gym

Visa sponsorship available

Seniority Level Entry level

Employment Type Full‑time

Job Function Engineering and Information Technology; Industries: Software Development

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