# Founding Applied AI Engineer

**Company:** [Saphira AI](https://zerogtalent.com/ai-companies/saphira-ai)
**Location:** San Francisco, CA, US / Remote (US)
**Work mode:** Remote
**Employment type:** Full Time
**Salary:** USD 100K–150K/yr
**Category:** Aerospace Engineering
**Listed:** 2026-03-24

[View and apply on Zero G Talent](https://zerogtalent.com/ai-jobs/saphira-ai/founding-applied-ai-engineer-72983)

## Job description

-   We are looking for a Founding Applied AI engineer to join the team. The ideal candidate is someone with 5+ years of experience. We are looking for someone that has built AI driven workflows, agents, or applications from the ground up to serve specific business outcomes. 
-   We are looking for ownership and evidence of architecting the technical foundations of AI first products that drove significant business value. You’d interface directly with the co-founders and would be treated as an equal as helping to drive these outcomes at Saphira.
-   Experience with integrating AI into production codebases. Hands-on experience with prompt engineering and a strong understanding of how AI relates to the problems we are trying to solve. Ability to understand and architect AI workflows that lead to delightful customer experiences. 
-   Enhance our retrieval-augmented generation (RAG) capabilities, ensuring our models effectively integrate and utilize diverse data sources.
-   Tech Stack: OpenAI, LlamaIndex, RAG, Llama open source models
-   Bonus points: 
    -   Ex-founder (raised venture $)
    -   Built product as a founding engineer
    -   Worked at a software for hardware company or hardware company

## Other open roles at Saphira AI

- [Senior Industrial Functional Safety Engineer](https://zerogtalent.com/ai-jobs/saphira-ai/senior-industrial-functional-safety-engineer-79326) — San Francisco, CA, US / Remote (US; DE)
- [Founding Full-Stack Engineer](https://zerogtalent.com/ai-jobs/saphira-ai/founding-full-stack-engineer-72982) — San Francisco, CA, US / Remote (US)
- [Founding Account Executive - Enterprise Safety & Compliance (Hardware + AI)](https://zerogtalent.com/ai-jobs/saphira-ai/founding-account-executive-enterprise-safety-compliance-hardware-ai-81814) — San Francisco, CA, US / Remote

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