Founding AI 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