AI Engineer

Pathwork is redesigning life and health insurance jobs for the AI age. We believe the 2.5M professionals in the $1T life and health insurance industry don't need better tools; they need a new operating system.

Built from day one as AI-native, Pathwork uses agentic orchestration, structured data pipelines, predictive models, and generative AI to transform insurance distribution.

We're hiring an AI engineer — a full-stack, strategic builder who can take a large project from a working prototype to an industry-defining product. You'll lead development of our agentic AI systems, owning model orchestration, retrieval, real-time inference, evaluation, and production infrastructure, and collaborating closely with the founding team on product and technical strategy.

What you'll own:

• Build the engine: Design and own end-to-end agentic systems — retrieval, orchestration, inference, eval, and feedback loops
• Scale the stack: Shape our architecture across model interfaces, data pipelines, vector DBs, and streaming infrastructure
• Ship fast: Partner with product and design to prototype, test, and launch AI-driven features that deliver real value
• Improve performance: Continuously optimize accuracy, latency, and robustness through fine-tuning, eval frameworks, and data iteration
• Learn from the field: Join sales and customer calls to understand real-world pain points, pressure-test features, and translate feedback into product improvements
• Build infrastructure and tools that help the whole company move faster — debugging, observability, agent testing
• Hire, mentor, and collaborate with engineers who care about craft, velocity, and real-world impact

You might be a fit if you:

• Have 5–10 years of experience building AI or ML-powered systems, ideally in high-growth or early-stage environments
• Have shipped real products that use LLMs, retrieval, orchestration, or streaming inference — not just prototypes
• Think full-stack, end-to-end: comfortable moving between modeling, infra, and product-facing code
• Have an entrepreneurial mindset and thrive on building from scratch

Our stack: Python, TypeScript, Node.js, FastAPI, Postgres, Qdrant, LangGraph, Whisper, AWS (Lambda, EC2, ECS, S3), Terraform, React, Next.js.

Compensation & Benefits:

• Competitive salary plus meaningful equity
• High 401(k) matching and FSA program
• Employer-paid health benefits
• Direct founder collaboration

Hybrid culture anchored in SF and NYC — 4 days a week in our Presidio HQ or our Williamsburg office on Domino Park.