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Most companies don't need another deck about AI. They need an engineer who can walk in, understand the operation, and ship. That's what we do: we embed engineers inside the business and stay until the software runs without us.\nOur open-source research system ranks first on DeepResearch Bench.\nThe team is young and moves fast. Everyone here has a wide skill set, works with the newest tools as they land, and owns what they ship end to end. Nobody hands you a ticket.\nYou own the data side of an engagement: get the client's data out of the systems it lives in, make it trustworthy, and turn it into the pipelines and datasets the AI runs on. You work beside a Forward Deployed AI Engineer who owns the models. First up: helping an ERP company make its product AI-native.\nFully remote, US-based. 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We judge it by what you've shipped and kept running, not by a number of years.\nYou've built and run data pipelines in production, including when they broke.\n\nYou write Python and SQL well and have worked with a warehouse or lakehouse such as Snowflake, BigQuery, Databricks, or Postgres.\n\nYou've made sense of messy data from systems you didn't design.\n\nYou've built data for an ML or LLM system: training sets, eval sets, or retrieval.\n\nYou use AI coding tools every day and judge the result by the system and its output, not the language.\n\nNice to have\nApply even if none of these are true.\nYou've built on or integrated with an ERP, CRM, or accounting system.\n\nYou've built data quality or lineage tooling other people relied on.\n\nYou've done consulting, agency, or forward-deployed work and know how to be useful in someone else's building on day two.\n\nHow we hire\nA 30-minute conversation with the team about what you've shipped and what we're building.\n\nA technical deep-dive on one system you owned, from the business problem to production.\n\nA working session on a real client problem with the team.\n\nReferences, then an offer. 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