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We have over 1000 customers, including The Home Depot, KKR, Neighborly, and PulteGroup, using our product to enable AI sales coaching across their organization.\nWe are backed by Google Ventures, Bessemer Ventures, Crew Capital, and Broom Ventures, along with others.\nWe’re an in office team in NYC with builders who operate like high speed reinforcement learners. We obsess over our customers, move at a high velocity, are not afraid of failure, and look to maximize our real-world impact.\nIf you want to build the products and systems for how billions of conversations in the real world are captured and indexed, Rilla is the place to do it.\nThe Role\nThe Applied AI team at Rilla is redefining how humans interact with machines-using voice, intelligence, and a whole new class of data.\nEvery day, you’ll architect and ship AI-powered systems that make it possible for people to talk to Rilla like they would a human. You’ll help build agents that operate natively on real-world audio, extract insights from conversations no one else can even access, and push the boundaries of what’s possible in AI.\nWe’re building:\nA voice-first interface that lets users command Rilla directly through natural speech\n\nA search engine that uncovers business-critical insights from voice data that’s never been searchable\n\nA first-of-its-kind audio intelligence pipeline-designed for the messy, noisy, wildly unstructured conversations that happen in the real world, not in an online meeting\n\nAs an early AI engineer, you’ll shape the foundations of our AI stack and drive the invention of new techniques, tooling, and models. You’ll work across the full AI lifecycle-from data acquisition to real-time inference and user-facing chat interfaces.\nIf you’re obsessive about your craft, think like a founder, and want to be on the frontier of voice and offline AI, this is your team. The scale of the problems we’re solving is unmatched-and the surface area for ownership is only getting bigger.\nTechnologies We Use\nWe work primarily in Python and TypeScript, with FastAPI for API development\n\nAI/ML technologies including PyTorch, OpenAI APIs, Baseten, and LiteLLM\n\nCloud infrastructure with AWS and LiveKit for real-time communications\n\nPostgreSQL, Redis, and S3 for data storage\n\nWhat We Value\nAninfinite learner. Someone who is relentless in their curiosity.\n\nA customer obsessive. Someone who deeply care about delighting customers and solving real pains, not vanity metrics.\n\nA winning attitude. You thrive with extreme accountability, learning as a team, and both giving and receiving rapid feedback.\n\nExtreme empathy. Our customers are not tech companies. They live and work in the real world. Empathy is critical to arriving at correct solutions.\n\nUnafraid of failure. You take risks. You see failure as an opportunity to learn, grow, and be better the next time. In a weird way, you trick your brain into being excited when you fail, because it means you got a new opportunity to learn more.\n\nWhat We Require\nExperience building and deploying AI/LLM systems in production\n\nFamiliarity with tools that power today's AI: eval frameworks, agent tooling, and prompt engineering\n\nComfort working directly with customers to understand their needs and solve real-world problems\n\nDon’t Work Here\nPlease don't join if you're not excited about:\nBuilding an AI product for an industry untouched by modern software\n\nConstantly talking to and visiting customers in the field\n\nWorking ~60 hrs/week in person with some of the most ambitious people in NYC\n\nAttempting to build a generational company, and the intensity required to do so\n\nCompensation\nThe estimated salary range for this position is $200,000 - $300,000/year.\nSuccessful candidates with competing offers will receive matching and competitive offers.\nTotal compensation for this position may also include Incentive Stock Options, sign-on bonus, and other potential future incentives. 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