Founding Applied AI Engineer
Worldwide Placement Limited
- Location
- Onsite (San Francisco, California)
- Employment
- Full-time
- Level
- Mid Level
About the role
Worldwide Placement Limited is hiring a Founding Applied AI Engineer to build and lead the AI team from the ground up. The role focuses on owning the architecture and quality of multi-channel marketing AI agents, improving SEO performance, and designing evaluation systems.
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About Worldwide Placement Limited
Worldwide Placement Limited operates as a recruitment agency connecting top talent with leading organizations to make a significant impact on the global job market.
Industry: Information Technology - Computer Software
Job Category: Information Technology
Role facts
Domain: AI agents / growth marketing
Work arrangement: San Francisco, California, United States; on-site
Work authorization: Visa sponsorship is not available; US work authorization is required.
Education: No explicit degree requirement in the public JD
Equity: Not specified
Candidate Details
Seniority Level - Mid-Senior
Management Experience Required - No
Minimum Education - Other
Willingness to Travel - Never
About the role
You'll be the company's first senior AI hire, owning the quality and intelligence of our multi-channel marketing agents end to end. Working directly with the founder, you'll shape agent architecture, evaluation systems, and learning loops while building out the AI team from the ground up. This role is critical to scaling the reliability and effectiveness of agents operating across SEO, content, social, and search channels.
What you will do
Improve agent output and content quality across Reddit, LinkedIn, X, and article writing, with evaluation systems that make quality measurable.
Improve SEO and generative engine optimization (GEO) performance.
Design feedback loops that enable agents to learn from real-world results and performance signals at scale.
Improve AI infrastructure, agent architecture, model strategy, and the data pipelines that power them.
Hire and lead the AI team as the organization grows.
What They're Looking For
3+ years building production ML or AI systems, with recent hands-on work shipping LLM products or agents.
Proven experience designing evals and learning from outcome signals at scale in domains like search, ranking, or recommendations.
Strong TypeScript (Next.js) and Python proficiency for data analysis, evals, and model work; you ship end to end.
Sharp judgment about output quality and the ability to make it measurable and actionable.
Ownership experience in a startup or small team environment.
Search or ranking experience, particularly with Google or AI answer engines.
Background from a leading AI lab or top research program.
Marketing or go-to-market experience is a plus. Candidates with recommendation systems, algorithms, or reinforcement learning experience are also relevant; a marketing background is not required.
Skills and Certifications [note: bold skills and certification are required]
TypeScript
Next.js
Python
Compensation
Base Salary - Competitive
Full-time
Benefits - None
Relocation Assistance Available - No
Commission Compensation - No
Bonus Eligible - No
Overtime Eligible - No
Interview Travel Reimbursed - No
Why this employer is a great company
Startup building AI marketing agents. Hiring a Founding Applied AI Engineer for the responsibilities described in this role. San Francisco, California, United States; on-site.
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