Squad

Applied AI Engineer

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8 months ago
New York, NY, USAMid Level / Senior

Base Salary

$170k - $230k/yr

Responsibilities

  • Own Squad's technical vision and execution for all AI initiatives.
  • Build recommendation systems that predict candidate-job fit and improve through hires, rejections, and feedback loops.
  • Design AI agents that automate end-to-end recruiter and operations workflows.
  • Fine-tune models using proprietary hiring data.
  • Create evaluation and simulation environments to measure and improve match quality.
  • Define additional work across matching, automation, and infrastructure in collaboration with the founder.

Requirements

  • At least 3 years of software engineering experience.
  • A track record of shipping full-stack AI or LLM features in production.
  • Proficiency with modern AI and machine learning technologies, including LLM APIs, embeddings, vector databases, and fine-tuning.
  • Experience in a high-intensity, high-velocity environment such as a seed or Series A/B startup, high-growth technology company, or 0-to-1 product team.
  • Strong ownership, comfort with ambiguity, and a bias toward shipping.
  • Candidates are being considered across experience levels, including those with approximately 3 to 10 years of experience.

Benefits

  • Health insurance
  • Unlimited paid time off
  • Lunch provided at the office daily and dinner provided after 7 p.m.
  • Work from the company's office in New York City's Flatiron district
Squad

About Squad

1-10 employees

Squad aggregates referrals from 100s of elite recruiters and sends you a short list of the top 5% of candidates who truly meet your bar. Instead of onboarding recruiters one by one, you get instant access to a network of vetted recruiters with zero overhead or wrangling. With Squad, companies like Circle, Stellar, and CoinList have cut time-to-hire to 23 days, with 9/10 candidates submitted getting interviewed.

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