Aifund
Engineer in Residence: Live Selling Copilot
Mountain View, CA · Contract
No sponsorshipDetected 87 days ago
Full-Stack DevelopmentResearch
About the role
- Live commerce is bottlenecked by host capacity and operational chaos.
- What to Know Upfront - This is a 12-week, full-time, on-site residency in Mountain View, California. - Not every residency becomes a company.
- This is a contract role during the residency.
Responsibilities
- Build the end-to-end real-time system across chat ingestion, retrieval, guardrails, operator UX, listing controls, and post-show outputs.
- Work with one of our large LPs as your build/design partner to identify the right pilot category, host set, data path, and success metrics for the MVP.
- Design the automation ladder from draft support to host-controlled agentic replies without undermining authenticity or seller trust.
- Work with AI Fund's build team on product wedge, technical risk, and the path from pilot to a broader live-commerce OS.
- Demonstrated experience building GenAI products with retrieval, tool use, guardrails, and production feedback loops.
- Ability to move quickly with external design partners and translate ambiguous feedback into working product decisions.
- Someone who sees the wedge in backstage tooling now, while building the data and control layer that could support deeper automation later.
- You will be building an AI Fund idea, not bringing your own startup idea into the program.
- The process typically includes a Builder Event or equivalent working conversation, then a 48-hour Build Challenge, then panel review with AI Fund build leadership.
Requirements
- Helpful but Not Required
- Experience with live commerce, creator tools, marketplaces, video products, or seller operations.
- Experience with multilingual UX, moderation systems, or low-latency chat infrastructure.
Compensation
- $10,000/month for 12 weeks ($30,000 total).
- This is a contract role during the residency.
Benefits
- If the build leads to a funded company, the next step is a founder-level role with meaningful equity upside.
Company info
- You actively use AI coding assistants and modern GenAI tools as part of your build workflow.
- US work authorization. We are unable to sponsor visas for this role.
- Not every residency becomes a company. The goal is to pressure-test the idea quickly and honestly with real users and customers.
Visa & Work Authorization
- US work authorization.
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