Founding AI Product Engineer at AI Startup

Looking for an ambitious AI product engineer to own real production systems and scale an AI startup.

Location: Soho, Manhattan, NYC

Type: Full-time, in-person (6-day weeks)

Besty AI is a fast-growing startup of 12 people, with 6 engineers. We're building the AI brain for the $360B short‑term‑rental industry.

* We have hundreds of paying customers growing 20% month-over-month

* Raised over $6M from the heads of the Stanford & Berkeley AI labs and investors behind Discord, Fastly, Hugging Face, Covariant, and Replicate

* You’ll be one of our first AI product engineering hires and shape the culture, with opportunities for impact and leadership roles

* It's the perfect environment for anyone very ambitious who wants to learn about startups or be an entrepreneur in the future

Responsibilities

* Architect and scale core AI production systems

* Own product features end-to-end, from ideation to deployment

* Develop and integrate complex LLM workflows into real-world applications

You Might Be a Fit If

* You have deep experience building complex AI systems or agents

* Early adopter and power user of AI tools to 10x your own workflow

* Hungry, curious, and comfortable with minimal structure

* You bias for shipping: fast feedback, tight loops

* Thrive in high‑intensity environments

What We Offer

* High ownership → direct line to product decisions & customers

* Ideal experience to found your own company or lead a team

* Competitive equity and salary + full benefits

* Fully in-person office in Soho, Manhattan

* Intense, driven, and supportive culture