Location: Sunnyvale, CA

Compensation: $120,000-$300,000 (based on experience), equity

Role Type: Full-time

About the Company

We are hiring a member of technical staff to help build the technical foundation of an AI-driven marketplace for young workers (age 16-24).

Our platform connects students with project-based learning opportunities that build real skills employers actually want. On the other side, we operate a managed workforce marketplace, connecting companies with vetted contract based workers for short and long term projects.

This is a full-stack role. You will be responsible for integrating frontend, backend, data, and AI components into a coherent, reliable product.

Our core matching and recommendation logic is developed in collaboration with an academic research lab and is likely to involve LLM-based systems. While this is not a research role, you will work closely with researchers and stay adjacent to state-of-the-art methods, helping translate research ideas into production-ready systems.

What You Will Own

• End-to-end ownership of core product systems, from user experience to backend services
• Integration of AI- and LLM-based matching components into production workflows
• Designing interfaces between models and application logic, including confidence handling and fallbacks
• Building full-stack features that connect user signals, task data, and marketplace decisions
• Designing system logic for cold start, task failure, retries, and quality control
• Making early architectural decisions that shape the long-term technical direction of the platform

Who We are Looking for

• 3-5 years of professional development experience with a track record of shipping products
• Full-stack development across frontend, backend, and data systems, including but not limited to cloud environments, databases, and more
• Fast-paced startup schedule.
• Understanding how LLM-based systems behave in real products (latency, variance, failure modes)
• Collaborating with research partners and turning research artifacts into deployable components
• Operating in an early-stage environment where product and system boundaries evolve quickly

Research Collaboration

You will work with an academic research lab that develops core AI and LLM-based matching models

• You will help define interfaces, constraints, and evaluation criteria for production use
• You will not be responsible for publishing papers
• Your responsibility is to ensure research ideas can survive real users, real data, and real failures

Pay: $120,000.00 - $300,000.00 per year

Benefits:

• 401(k) 3% Match
• Dental insurance
• Health insurance
• Life insurance
• Paid sick time
• Paid time off
• Vision insurance

Education:

• Bachelor's (Required)

Location:

• Sunnyvale, CA 94085 (Preferred)

Work Location: In person