Paraform

Applied AI Engineer

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4 months ago
San Francisco, CA, USAMid Level / Senior
H1B Sponsor

Base Salary

$190k - $240k/yr

Responsibilities

  • Design and build AI systems supporting matchmaking, ranking, and automation across the Paraform marketplace.
  • Develop LLM-driven retrieval pipelines, agentic workflows, and AI-powered automation for recruiters and companies.
  • Own AI systems end to end, from data pipelines and prompt or model design through deployment, monitoring, and production iteration.
  • Collaborate with product, machine learning engineering, and full-stack teams to ship AI capabilities that improve marketplace metrics.
  • Design evaluation frameworks measuring real-world performance, reliability, and business outcomes.
  • Define best practices for operating production AI systems while balancing model quality, cost, latency, and maintainability.
  • Improve how AI is integrated into product experiences across the platform.

Requirements

  • 2–5 years of experience at a growing AI-native startup, such as a Series A–D company.
  • Experience working on products serving a large number of users rather than a single enterprise customer.
  • Strong experience with Python and TypeScript.
  • Experience building agentic systems that produce real business or user outcomes.
  • Experience building and shipping AI systems used by real people.
  • Ability to explain technical tradeoffs to non-technical partners and work effectively in ambiguous 0-to-1 environments.
  • Experience with LLM-powered applications, retrieval systems, tool-using agents, or AI-driven automation is a plus.
  • Familiarity with traditional machine learning techniques such as ranking, recommendation, or classification is helpful.
Paraform

About Paraform

51-200 employees

Paraform is an Agentic Hiring Platform that makes hiring exceptional talent as easy as pressing a button. Our first product is an AI-powered recruiter marketplace, where expert recruiters and custom AI agents work together to fill your critical roles faster than ever before. To date we have helped 1,000+ customers like Palantir, Rippling, Decagon, Abridge, Cognition, Owner, Basis, Thomson Reuters, Arby’s, and Wilson Sonsini hire world-class talent and significantly accelerate the trajectory of their business. We’re backed by Scale Venture Partners, Felicis, A*, Liquid 2, BOND, DST Global, and the founders of YouTube, Instacart, Canva, and more.