Inception

Inception

Member of Technical Staff, Forward Deployed AI Engineer

San Mateo, USA · Staff+

Sponsorship not specifiedDetected 60 days ago
TypeScriptPythonFull-Stack DevelopmentData StructuresAlgorithmsMachine LearningData EngineeringLLMsRAGMLOpsCustomer SuccessResearchCommunication

About the role

  • This role sits at the intersection of product engineering, customer implementation, evals, data collection, model optimization, and enterprise deployment ownership.
  • This is not a traditional solutions engineering role, a pure research role, or a long-cycle consulting implementation role.
  • You will work closely with platform, serving, post-training, product engineering, and GTM teams to translate customer deployment learnings into model, product, and infrastructure improvements.

Responsibilities

  • You'll need strong command of CS fundamentals, including data structures and algorithms, to design and build reliable, scalable systems.
  • Rapid prototyping: Build and run fast proof-of-concepts, iterating on customer requirements and technical constraints on 2-week cycles.
  • Production AI applications: Build full-stack AI applications, agentic workflows, integrations, internal tools, and customer-facing systems that bring Inception models into real enterprise environments.
  • Measurement and Evaluation: Define success metrics for customer deployments and design LLM-as-judge workflows, evaluation harnesses, and feedback loops for customer-specific use cases.
  • Agentic workflows: Build and optimize agentic workflows including subagents involving classification, routing, context compaction, search, coding agents, voice, and other latency-sensitive applications.
  • Build, prove, and generalize: Turn customer-specific deployments into repeatable product patterns, eval frameworks, implementation playbooks, and platform capabilities that improve Inception's core product.

Requirements

  • Experience with data engineering, synthetic data generation, or feedback loops for model improvement.

Nice to have

  • Turn customer-specific deployments into repeatable product patterns, eval frameworks, implementation playbooks, and platform capabilities that improve Inception's core product.
  • Strong engineering skills in Python and modern full-stack development, including APIs, backend systems, and ideally TypeScript/JavaScript.
  • Familiarity with LLM evaluation, LLM-as-judge workflows, data pipelines, model tuning, prompt optimization, or agentic workflows.
  • Customer-facing experience with enterprise, strategic, or high-value accounts.
  • Experience deploying software or AI systems in enterprise environments with security, privacy, reliability, compliance, or integration constraints.
  • Strong communication and discovery skills, with the ability to translate ambiguous customer needs into concrete technical solutions.
  • Ability to operate across engineering, product, sales, and customer success without requiring heavy process or handholding.
  • Preferred Skills Experience with RAG, search, voice AI, coding agents, or agentic workflow systems.

Benefits

  • Qualifications BS/MS/PhD in Computer Science, Machine Learning, or a related field (or equivalent experience).

Company info

  • Work directly with strategic enterprise customers to identify high-value AI workflows and turn them into production deployments.
  • Enterprise customer deployments: Work directly with strategic enterprise customers to identify high-value AI workflows and turn them into production deployments.
  • Experience building, deploying, or integrating AI/LLM products with real users or customers.

This listing is sourced directly from Inception's careers page and normalized into a canonical job model.