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Over time, as the company grows, you’ll own the areas where you’re strongest.\nThis is an in-person role from our office in NYC.\nThe best person for this role is T-shaped: broad enough to move across AI, backend, data, and product surfaces when needed, with real depth in at least one of these areas:\nAI product systems - diffusion pipelines, batch LLM workflows, vector search, evals, structured outputs, and reliability work under real product constraints.\n\nRecsys and personalization - retrieval and ranking systems, embedding-based search, learned rankers, sequence modeling of user behavior, and online experimentation.\n\nCore product infrastructure - databases and query optimization, data warehousing, infra-as-code, deployment, observability. 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