Whatnot
AI Tooling Engineer
San Francisco, CA · Senior
Sponsorship not specifiedDetected 45 days ago
LLMsRAGResearchMentoring
About the role
- We're one of the fastest growing marketplaces and were recently named the #1 Best Startup Employer in America by Forbes.
- This is a high-velocity, high-judgment builder role.
Responsibilities
- A pattern-setter and force multiplier -you've defined how teams build, mentored other engineers, and raised the technical bar for an org, not just your own output
- A strong communicator -you can sit with non-technical users, translate their problems into software, and teach them to build for themselves
- Low ego, high agency -you see inefficiency, build the fix, and bring people along with you
- Work From Home Support
- All Whatnauts are expected to develop a deep understanding of our product.
- We're passionate about building the best user experience, and all employees are expected to use Whatnot as both a buyer and a seller as part of their job (our dogfooding budget makes this fun and easy!).
Skills
- 🚀 Join the Future of Commerce with Whatnot!
- finding real problems, shipping working software fast, hardening what works, and scaling how Whatnot gets value out of AI.
Compensation
- Annual allowance towards Childcare
Benefits
- Generous Holiday and Time off Policy
- Health Insurance options including Medical, Dental, Vision
- Home office setup allowance
- Monthly allowance for wellness
- Lifetime benefit for family planning, such as adoption or fertility expenses
- Retirement; 401k offering for Traditional and Roth accounts in the US (employer match up to 4% of base salary) and Pension plans internationally
- Parental Leave
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