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AI Developer / AI Engineer

Peppr AI (YC W25)
San Francisco, CA
Full-time
10,000,000 – 14,999,800 / year
AI tools:
Hugging Face
LangChain
Weaviate

What You'll Do As a founding AI engineer at Peppr AI, you'll take ownership of designing, developing, and deploying intelligent systems that form the core of our agentic AI platform. You'll build ML/LLM pipelines, integrate AI agents into production systems, and collaborate closely across UX, infrastructure, and backend domains to create seamless AI-powered enterprise experiences.

Key Responsibilities Include

* Develop end-to-end AI pipelines: data ingestion, context engineering, retrieval-augmented generation (RAG), model integration, validation, and monitoring

* Design and optimize low-latency voice agents, including STT, VAD, TTS, and streaming solutions using WebRTC or WebSockets

* Implement production-grade AI features, integrating them with FastAPI endpoints, Weaviate vector databases, and secure authentication systems

* Collaborate with frontend and backend teams to deliver AI-powered user experiences

* Continuously evaluate and prototype emerging frameworks (e.g., Hugging Face, LangChain, LLaMA) to improve performance and scalability

Required

What We're Looking For We're seeking a builder excited to push the boundaries of AI in enterprise settings. You should have:

* 3+ years of experience in AI/ML engineering, with hands-on experience in building and deploying LLM-based systems

* Strong proficiency in Python and familiarity with frameworks such as Hugging Face Transformers and LangChain

* Practical experience with Weaviate or similar vector databases for RAG-based systems

* Understanding of low-latency voice technologies, including streaming pipelines and real-time audio processing

* Solid background in infrastructure: Docker, Kubernetes, CI/CD, monitoring, and secure API development

Preferred

* Experience building multi-step agent orchestration or custom AI workflows

* Knowledge of latency reduction techniques (e.g., model quantization, caching)

* Familiarity with designing voice-first conversational UX

* Strong understanding of security, data protection, and adversarial considerations in AI pipelines

* A product mindset and experience shipping end-to-end features

* Comfort with ambiguity and rapid iteration in a startup environment

Applications go to the hiring team directly