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Senior AI Engineer – LLMs & Backend Systems

  • Full Time
  • Anywhere

Heaven and Hire Recruiting

Heaven and Hire Recruiting is searching for a Senior AI Engineer – LLMs & Backend Systems to become a founding member of an ambitious startup team in San Francisco, California. If you want to architect intelligent systems from the ground up and shape a product that pushes the boundaries of applied AI, this on-site role was built for you.

About the Role

As a Senior AI Engineer at Heaven and Hire Recruiting, you will sit at the heart of a small, high-impact engineering group tasked with conceiving, building, and shipping a multi-agent AI platform. This is a hands-on, full-time position in San Francisco where your decisions on architecture, large language model integration, and backend infrastructure will directly define the trajectory of the product and the company.

Key Responsibilities

  • Design and develop a multi-agent AI system, from early prototypes through production launch.
  • Engineer reliable backend services that support LLM-driven workflows at scale.
  • Integrate, fine-tune, and evaluate large language models for real-world performance.
  • Contribute to foundational technical choices as one of the earliest engineers on the team.
  • Collaborate closely with founders and core staff to translate vision into shipped features.

Qualifications

  • Proven, senior-level experience building and deploying production backend systems.
  • Strong working knowledge of large language models and modern AI tooling.
  • Comfort operating in an early-stage, fast-moving startup environment.
  • Ability to own complex problems end to end and deliver under ambiguity.
  • Willingness to work on-site in San Francisco, California.

Compensation & Support

  • Salary range of $200,000–$400,000.
  • Equity grant of 0.5%–3%.
  • Relocation assistance available.
  • Visa sponsorship available for most types.

About Heaven and Hire Recruiting

Heaven and Hire Recruiting is assembling a founding team to bring a next-generation, multi-agent AI system to life. Joining now means helping set the technical foundation, culture, and direction of an organization at its earliest and most formative stage.

How to Apply

Ready to help build the future of applied AI as a Senior AI Engineer in San Francisco? View the full listing and submit your application here.

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Working in San Francisco

San Francisco, officially the City and County of San Francisco, is the fourth-most populous city in California and the 17th-most populous in the United States, with a population of 826,079 in 2025. Among U.S. cities with a population of 200,000 or more, San Francisco is ranked first by per capita income, second by population density, and sixth by aggregate income as of 2024. Some 4.6 million residents live in the city's metropolitan statistical area, which is the 13th-largest in the United States. Around 9.2 million live in the San Jose–San Francisco–Oakland combined statistical area, the fift

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