[Remote] Founding AI Engineer (LLMs & Autonomous Agents)

Note: The job is a remote job and is open to candidates in USA. Actual Education is seeking a Founding AI Engineer for a specially funded project focusing on AI and education. This role involves leading the design, development, and deployment of production-grade LLM and autonomous agent systems, requiring hands-on experience in building AI systems. Responsibilities • Architect, build, and deploy LLM-powered and agent-based systems end-to-end • Lead model selection, fine-tuning, evaluation, and optimization for real-world use cases • Design scalable, reliable AI system architectures (inference, orchestration, monitoring) • Develop autonomous agents capable of executing complex, multi-step tasks • Collaborate with product and engineering leadership to translate business goals into AI solutions • Stay at the frontier of LLMs, agents, and AI infrastructure and apply what matters in production • Own performance, cost, reliability, and safety tradeoffs across AI systems Skills • Proven experience building and deploying LLMs or AI agent systems in production • Strong background in machine learning, NLP, and deep learning • Experience with LLM fine-tuning, RLHF/RLAIF, or agent frameworks • Deep understanding of AI system architecture and deployment at scale • Ability to reason clearly about tradeoffs (latency, cost, accuracy, reliability) • Experience at Microsoft, Google (Gemini), Meta, or comparable AI-driven organizations • Contributions to open-source ML/AI tooling or infrastructure • Experience designing evaluation frameworks for LLMs and agents • Prior founding-engineer or early-stage startup experience • Educational degrees from top universities are preferred • Exceptional talent without formal academic credentials will still be considered Benefits • Equity incentives Company Overview • “A child without education is like a bird without wings” - Tibetan proverb Recent shifts to online learning have exacerbated the pervasive, negative outcomes associated with an already strained education system. It was founded in 2021, and is headquartered in Los Angeles, CA, US, with a workforce of 2-10 employees. Its website is Apply tot his job