You.com

Senior AI Engineer

You.com
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3 months ago

Base Salary

$250k - $300k/yr

Responsibilities

  • Build reference implementations, demos, and tooling that demonstrate effective use of You.com’s APIs.
  • Improve agentic results, inference cost, token usage, and performance using smaller, less expensive models.
  • Ship and maintain open-source projects and integrate You.com into existing agent frameworks and developer tools.
  • Represent You.com through technical writing, talks, hackathons, meetups, and panels.
  • Bring developer feedback into product development and translate technical details into business value for stakeholders.

Requirements

  • Hands-on experience with modern AI and agent systems, including sound architecture and systems-design judgment.
  • A public body of technical work such as an active GitHub profile, open-source projects, or widely used demos.
  • Understanding of developers’ needs and experience contributing to open source or participating in hackathons, meetups, or talks.
  • Ability to communicate deeply with engineers and clearly explain value to non-technical and C-level audiences.
  • Business acumen and the ability to demonstrate return on investment are preferred.

Benefits

  • Hubs in San Francisco and New York City with regular in-person gatherings and co-working sessions.
  • Flexible paid time off, U.S. holidays, and a December shutdown week.
  • Health insurance covering 100% of the policyholder and 75% of dependents.
  • 12 weeks of paid parental leave in the U.S.
  • 401(k) program with an immediate match.
  • Work-from-home stipend available within the first year of employment.
  • Technology stipend for hybrid and remote employees’ cell phone and internet expenses.
  • Annual health and wellness allowance.
  • Opportunity to collaborate with a team at the forefront of AI research.
  • Some perks and benefits are limited to full-time employees.

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You.com

About You.com

201-500 employees

You.com builds AI search infrastructure and Web Search APIs that let developers and enterprises retrieve real-time, citation-backed web and domain data for AI agents and applications, powered by vertical-specific indices. It also operates a consumer AI search engine and chat interface. Founded in 2020 and headquartered in San Francisco, the privately held company monetizes through API and enterprise offerings that integrate search and reasoning into software and workflows.

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