# Applied AI Engineer

About us Different is a marketing system that runs demand generation for B2B companies. It handles campaign creation, personalization, and optimization in one place, so lean teams can do more without adding headcount, agencies or point AI solutions. Customers use Different to launch campaigns faster, reach the right buyers, and continuously improve marketing ROI. Between them, Different’s founders have founded two unicorns, led AI at a global marketing software giant, and built platforms used by millions. They bring deep product, technical, and business experience to one shared goal: reimagining how modern marketing works. We are backed by General Catalyst and Lightspeed. The role You'll build the agents, evals, and model systems behind Different. This is not a foundation model research role. The job is to take fast-moving models and make them useful in a real product. These systems need to be reliable enough to act on a marketer's behalf and practical enough to run in production.Many of these problems don't have established solutions yet. You'll read new research, test ideas, build evals, and ship the approaches that hold up. What you'll work on Agents and tool use: build multi-st

- **Id**: 3297024
- **Url**: <https://alion.io/job/different-applied-ai-engineer>
- **Role**: AI/ML
- **Role family**: AI/ML
- **Employment type**: full_time
- **Work mode**: on_site
- **Hiring geo confidence**: structured
- **Locations**: San Francisco, United States
- **Countries**: US
- **Hiring countries total**: 0
- **Visa sponsorship**: no
- **Relocation package**: no
- **Has equity**: no
- **Status**: live
- **First seen at**: 2026-09-25T05:53:32Z
- **Employer posted date**: 2026-09-25
- **Last verified at**: 2026-11-07T01:28:06Z
- **Board verified**: yes
- **Days open**: 42
- **Description format**: text
- **Description chars**: 3499
- **Description truncated**: no
- **Benefits**: Equity
- **Relocation offered**: no
- **Industries**: Marketing Automation, Marketing & Sales AI

## Company

- **Id**: 3050
- **Name**: Different
- **Domain**: different.ai
- **Url**: <https://alion.io/company/different>
- **Size band**: 201-500
- **Is staffing agency**: no
- **Employer type**: direct
- **Is intermediary**: no
- **Ats vendor**: Rippling

## Salary

- **Min**: 145000
- **Max**: 285000
- **Currency**: USD
- **Period**: year
- **Usd annual**: 285000

## Technologies

- **Context Engineering** — Optional: no
- **Fine-tuning** — Optional: no
- **Function Calling** — Optional: no
- **Knowledge Distillation** — Optional: no
- **LLM** — Optional: no
- **LLM Evaluation** — Optional: no
- **Machine Learning** — Optional: no
- **Model Distillation** — Optional: no
- **Post-training** — Optional: no
- **RAG** — Optional: no
- **Reinforcement Learning** — Optional: no

## Trust

- **Level**: ok
- **Days open**: 42

## Requirements

- **Manages managers**: no
- **Security clearance**: no

### Education

- **Level**: phd
- **Optional**: no

## Lifecycle

- Event: open; At: 2026-10-26T22:14:01Z

## Liveness

- **Score**: 28
- **Band**: fade
- **Label**: Fading
- **P open**: 1
- **P active**: 0.613
- **P room**: 0.45
- **Age days**: 42
- **Expected fill days**: 28
- **Reasons**: conf:2, velocity, win:tail
- **Computed at**: 2026-11-06T05:58:05Z

## Pay

- **Stated usd annual**: 285000
- **Is top pay**: yes

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