Founding AI EngineerAcceler8 Talent • San Francisco, CA, United States

Founding AI Engineer

Acceler8 Talent • San Francisco, CA, United States

1 hour ago

Job type

Full-time

Job description

Founding Engineer – AI & Cyber Defense

The Company

A $5M-backed team of ex-OpenAI and serial deep-tech founders developing next-generation cyber capabilities for U.S. defense and intelligence - focused on an emerging class of digital operations that goes beyond traditional vulnerability exploitation are on the lookout for a Founding AI Engineer to join their team.

What You'll Be Doing

Build LLM-powered applications measured against real mission outcomes, designing evaluation frameworks (prompts, gold sets, automated tests) and orchestrating models for reliability and speed
Prototype across dozens of tasks, embed with end users in the field, ship fast, and tie every line of code back to national-security impact.

What We're Looking For

Hands-on experience shipping LLM-driven systems with real evaluations and downstream metrics

Strong Python engineering skills; comfortable with prompt engineering, retrieval, fine-tuning, or lightweight RL

0→1 builder who thrives on ambiguity, learns fast, and works close to users

Principled decision-maker willing to make hard tradeoffs in high-stakes environments

Must be eligible for U.S. security clearances (work involves DoD / IC contracts)

What's In It For You

Ground-floor equity in a $5M pre-seed company backed by Village Global, Neo Ovo, and 8090 Industries

Work on problems with national consequence alongside a CEO from OpenAI / Stanford and a serial deep-tech founder

Direct user access - embed with operators, get real-time feedback, see your work deployed in the field

San Francisco-based (on-site focus) with some travel; small, high-agency founding team of 2

Apply now for immediate consideration!

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