AI Engineer

About Ketch

Ketch powers responsible data use for millions of people every day across leading media, retail, technology, and financial companies. We're built on a simple belief : data privacy is a fundamental human right. Protecting personal data in the AI era requires a platform that enables dynamic engagement with users, orchestration of data directives across the ecosystem, and intelligent action on AI-driven insights. With Ketch, businesses gain real-time visibility and control. The result is stronger trust between brands and consumers, grounded in integrity and respect for personal data.

Ketch is a well-funded Series B startup backed by top investors and led by a multi-exit leadership team. We're passionate builders who continuously seek to understand our customers, collaborate on innovative solutions, and write the code to bring them to life.

Role Overview

As an AI Engineer at Ketch, you'll design and build systems that help users interrogate, explore, and act on AI-driven insights about their data. You'll architect and scale APIs and data pipelines that classify information and assess risk across massive datasets, documents, and enterprise systems. Blending backend engineering with applied AI, you'll turn raw data into actionable intelligence, deliver it through fast, reliable services, and create feedback loops that continuously improve performance. You'll partner with product, design, and customer teams to make advanced AI capabilities feel simple, transparent, and trustworthy within the Ketch platform.

This is a hybrid position based in our San Francisco HQ 3 days a week

Key Responsibilities :

• Architect and evolve agentic in-app experiences that enable users to interrogate, explore, and act on data classification insights.
• Develop scalable data classification pipelines that process documents, metadata, and records across systems using LLMs, embeddings, retrieval-augmented generation, and deterministic heuristics to accurately classify data and flag risks.
• Implement observability and feedback loops that monitor model performance, enable human-in-the-loop validation, and continuously improve accuracy over time.
• Develop APIs, services, and systems that extend and enhance our data privacy and permissioning platform.
• Collaborate with product management and customers to understand customer challenges and translate them into technical solutions.
• Ensure high code quality and maintain best practices in CI / CD, testing, and deployment pipelines.

What We're Looking For

$120,000 - $150,000 a year

The estimated base salary range for this position is $120,000 to $150,000, which does not include the value of benefits or a potential equity grant. A wide range of factors are considered in making compensation decisions, including but not limited to skill sets, market conditions, experience and training, licensure and certifications, and business and organizational needs

We do not accept resumes from headhunters, placement agencies, or any 3rd parties. All submissions will be considered a gift and no fee will be due.

We may use artificial intelligence (AI) tools to support parts of the hiring process, such as reviewing applications, analyzing resumes, or assessing responses. These tools assist our recruitment team but do not replace human judgment. Final hiring decisions are ultimately made by humans. If you would like more information about how your data is processed, please contact us.