You.com

You.com

Senior AI Engineer

San Francisco (Hybrid) · Senior · Full-time

Work authorization required$250k-$300kDetected 26 days ago
GitRESTLLMsAgentic AIResearch

About the role

  • This role sits at the seam between engineering and the developer community.
  • You're a strong AI engineer who ships real things, and you're equally at home in an open-source repo, on a podcast, or on a conference panel.
  • We're looking for a builder developers trust, someone who can write a reference implementation one week and explain to a room of engineers (or a customer's CTO) why it matters the next.

Responsibilities

  • Build reference implementations, demos, and tooling that show developers how to get real outcomes from You.com's APIs - improving agentic results, cutting inference cost and token usage, and getting strong performance out of smaller, cheaper models.
  • Contribute to the open-source AI community on You.com's behalf: ship and maintain projects, and land You.com into the agent frameworks and developer tools people are already using.
  • AI engineering & systems design.
  • You make sound architecture decisions and can weigh domain-specific, enterprise requirements against how you actually build.
  • The chance to collaborate with a team at the forefront of AI research

Requirements

  • You understand developers because you are one.
  • You can put yourself in another technical builder's shoes and know what will genuinely matter to them.
  • You can go deep technically with engineers and clearly convey value to non-technical and C-level audiences.

Nice to have

  • Business acumen.
  • You can show ROI.
  • Hubs in San Francisco and New York City offering regular in-person gatherings and co-working sessions
  • 401k program, 3% match - vested immediately!*
  • You.com participates in E-Verify.
  • Please let us know if you require accommodation for any portion of the recruitment and hiring process.
  • Beware of recruiting scams: You.com will only contact you through official @ You.com email addresses and will never ask for payment or sensitive personal information during the hiring process.

Compensation

  • is determined by multiple factors assessed during the interview process, with the final offer reflecting these considerations.

Benefits

  • Flexible PTO with U.S. holidays observed and a week shutdown in December to rest and recharge*
  • A competitive health insurance plan covers 100% of the policyholder and 75% for dependents*
  • 12 weeks of paid parental leave in the US*
  • $500 work-from-home stipend to be used up to a year of your start date*
  • $1,200 per year Health & Wellness Allowance to support your personal goals*
  • Certain perks and benefits are limited to full-time employees only
  • $600 technology stipend to support a portion of our hybrid/remote team's cell phone and internet expenses*

Company info

  • At You.com, we are building the AI Search Infrastructure that powers modern AI systems. Our goal is to create the trusted knowledge layer that agents, applications, and enterprises rely on to retrieve real-time, accurate, and citation-backed information.
  • Our platform combines proprietary vertical indexes with LLM-optimized retrieval systems to power AI agents, applications, and enterprise workflows. We are solving hard problems across search, large language models, and large-scale infrastructure to make AI systems more reliable, transparent, and useful.
  • Our team includes engineers, researchers, product builders, and operators who care about solving meaningful problems and delivering real-world impact. Whether you are improving core infrastructure, shaping product experiences, or helping bring new AI capabilities to market, your work will help define how modern AI finds and uses knowledge.
  • At You.com, we are building the AI Search Infrastructure that powers modern AI systems.
  • Our goal is to create the trusted knowledge layer that agents, applications, and enterprises rely on to retrieve real-time, accurate, and citation-backed information.
  • Our platform combines proprietary vertical indexes with LLM-optimized retrieval systems to power AI agents, applications, and enterprise workflows.
  • We are solving hard problems across search, large language models, and large-scale infrastructure to make AI systems more reliable, transparent, and useful.
  • Our team includes engineers, researchers, product builders, and operators who care about solving meaningful problems and delivering real-world impact.
  • Whether you are improving core infrastructure, shaping product experiences, or helping bring new AI capabilities to market, your work will help define how modern AI finds and uses knowledge.
  • What we're looking for

Visa & Work Authorization

  • We will provide the Social Security Administration (SSA) and, if necessary, the Department of Homeland Security (DHS) with information from each new employee's Form I-9 to confirm work authorization. (English/Spanish: E-Verify Participation
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