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Posted Jul 22, 2025Applied AI
at Artisan
San Francisco, United StatesOn-site
Requirements
- ABOUT ARTISAN We're building AI employees. Not chatbots. Not copilots.
- Our first, Ava, is an AI BDR used by hundreds of companies.
- Right now we're building Ava 2.0, a step change in what an AI employee can do.
- ROLE OVERVIEW You'll be the third Applied AI engineer on the Artisan team!
- We're pushing the boundaries of what's possible with AI employees, and you'll play a key role in our product direction.
- CRMs, calendars, APIs) - Driving infrastructure choices for routing, orchestration, eval loops, and persistent memory across agents - Building safety, trust, and controls into agents, partnering with product to design user guardrails, fail-safes, and success metrics - Exploring and deploying emerging modalities from voice AI and talking head technology to multi-modal reasoning - and figuring out how they make Ava more human-like - Designing agent workflows that make strategic decisions, self-optimize and
- experience with agents, function calling, RAG pipelines, or self-healing workflows (LangChain, ReAct, Dust, OpenAI Tools, etc) - Strong background in prompt design, chaining, and retrieval systems (experience with OpenAI’s RAG + web search tools or equivalents is a major plus) -
- experience at the center - High standards, every detail.
Benefits
- We're a YC W24 company, have raised $35M+ from investors including Y Combinator, and are at $8M+ ARR.
Additional details
- She researches leads, writes and sends emails in a customer's voice, runs multi-step outbound sequences, manages her own deliverability infrastructure, self-optimizes over time, and handles objections and meeting booking.
- The engineering problems are hard and the surface area is enormous.
- - Evaluating LLMs, choosing the right models for the right tasks, balancing cost, latency, reliability, and accuracy - Architecting prompt frameworks and agent behaviors for Ava’s core workflows: email generation, chat interaction, meeting scheduling, prospect research, and more - Optimizing multi-step agent chains using retrieval-augmented generation (RAG), web search integrations, and tool use (e.g.
- Introductory chat with our recruiter 2. 15-minute interview with Jaspar, our CEO 3.
- Take home assignment 4. 30-minute take home assignment review with Sam, our CPTO 5. 30-minute culture and values interview with Jaspar, our CEO OUR CULTURE AND VALUES - Founder mindset.
- Everyone acts like an owner: take initiative, think big, challenge ideas, and push for 10× outcomes - Obsessed with impact.
- We apply the 80/20 rule, kill sunk costs quickly, and focus on what actually moves the needle - Customer-first, always.
- Quality matters in everything we ship, from product and code to copy and design - Clear, direct communication.
- We value candor, fast responses, and feedback - Winning team energy.
- We bring positive vibes, low ego, zero drama, and genuinely enjoy building together