Founding AI Engineer

San Francisco, California

Greylock
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Summary:


Newly-funded seed startup (valued $100M+) is looking to hire a Founding AI Engineer. Our target profile will have 5+ years industry experience as Back-End/Infra/ML Ops Engineer with 1+ years hands-on engineering experience in Generative AI production environments (e.g., RAG, few-shot examples, fine tuning, prompt tuning, agentic workflows, LLM evals, etc.) with demonstrated skills in the following core responsibilities:


  • Applying LLMs as reasoning engines to domain-specific problems to provide value to a customer
  • Evaluating and improving end-to end accuracy and latency of AI agents
  • Creating and enhancing prompts, incorporating best practices
  • Building and maintaining systems that handle passing data between LLMs and databases
  • Optimizing LLM call spend and performance

About Us:


Greylock is an early-stage investor in hundreds of remarkable companies including Airbnb, LinkedIn, Dropbox, Workday, Cloudera, Facebook, Instagram, Roblox, Coinbase, Palo Alto Networks, among others. More can be found about us here:


How We Work:


We are full-time, salaried employees of Greylock and provide free candidate referrals/introductions to our active investments. We will contact anyone who looks like a potential match requesting to schedule a call with you immediately.


Due to the selective nature of this service and the volume of applicants we typically receive from our job postings, a follow-up email will not be sent until a match is identified with one of our investments.


Please note: We are not recruiting for any roles within Greylock at this time. This job posting is for direct employment with a startup in our portfolio.

Date Posted: 02 May 2025
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