Applied AI Lead - San Francisco - Open Select

    Open Select
    Open Select San Francisco

    9 hours ago

    Description

    Compensation: Up to $450,000 + meaningful equity

    Who Youll Join:

    Join an early-stage AI company building the AI operating system for your company, a centralized reasoning engine that understands, learns, and acts across an entire organization.

    Youll be one of the first senior leaders in a 3-person founding team, backed by $9M in seed funding, with strong early traction ($1.3M ARR in 16 weeks and an active Fortune 500 pipeline). Investors include Long Journey Ventures and Axiom Ventures.

    This is not an R&D project or internal tooling role. Youll be building applied AI systems already used by high-growth startups and large enterprises for real, high-stakes decisions.

    What Youll Do:

    • Define the strategy and roadmap for Applied AI across product and customers.
    • Build and lead a high-performing team of AI engineers and applied ML practitioners from the ground up.
    • Own the development and deployment of the AI operating system for enterprise clients, from prototype to production.
    • Take responsibility for reliability, evaluation, monitoring, and failure modes of enterprise AI systems.
    • Work directly with the CEO and founding team to shape core architecture and long-term technical direction.
    • Design and ship agentic systems that reason across tools, take action, and improve with organizational context.

    Who You Are:

    • 5+ years in software engineering, including 3+ years building applied AI or ML systems.
    • You have personally shipped AI products used by paying customers, not just demos or experiments.
    • Strong hands-on experience with LLMs, agents, retrieval, evaluation, and production deployment.
    • Comfortable as a hands-on leader. You can architect systems, write code, and hire the right team around you.
    • You thrive in early-stage environments with ambiguity, speed, and high ownership.
    • Bonus experience with enterprise SaaS, data platforms, CRMs, analytics, or deeply integrated internal tools.

    Why Youll Thrive:

    • Build the entire Applied AI function from scratch at a company positioning itself as the AI OS for work.
    • Report directly to the CEO and have real influence over product, architecture, and company direction.
    • Join at a true inflection point with strong revenue, enterprise demand, and a Series A on the horizon.
    • Work on agentic AI that runs real workflows end-to-end across CRMs, analytics, finance, and internal apps.
    • Operate in a small, senior team where your decisions materially shape the companys trajectory.
    • Enjoy a strong San Francisco culture, free food and transport, significant equity, and a dog-friendly office.

    Work authorization: At this time, were only able to consider candidates authorized to work in the US (US citizens, Green Card holders, or TN visa holders).

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