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Founding Applied AI Engineer

Own applied AI architecture and build Dossbot as the primary interface for operations in a growth-stage AI-native platform.

Location
San Francisco
Compensation
Not disclosed
Level
staff
Type
full time · On-site

Posted by employer 1 week ago

First seen on Joblaze 2 months ago

Last verified on the company career page 17 hours ago

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Skills & Technologies

AI in the day-to-day

You'll own applied AI across Doss: Dossbot (query, analyze, and automate via chat) and AI-assisted schema and workflow generation.

Not disclosed in this posting: compensation, years of experience, visa sponsorship.

Benefits

401k Match Unlimited PTO Equity/Stock Options Health Insurance Relocation Assistance

Joblaze summary

In this role, the Staff Applied AI Engineer at Doss will lead the development of applied AI solutions, focusing on creating a natural-language interface for operational data management. Key skills include experience with foundation models, backend system design, and the ability to implement robust evaluation and guardrail systems for AI applications. This position is ideal for someone with a strong technical background and a track record of deploying AI features in production environments, particularly in complex, multi-tenant systems.

Joblaze insights

  • Listed about 2 months ago — first seen on Joblaze September 3, 2026. Last confirmed on Doss's careers page November 4, 2026.
  • AI/ML appears in 34.3% of 268 comparable staff ai/ml roles in United States; Foundation Models appears in 0.7% of 268 comparable staff ai/ml roles in United States.

Quick facts

Is the Founding Applied AI Engineer role remote?
No — this is an on-site role in San Francisco.
Where is the role based?
Doss is hiring for this position in San Francisco.
What's the tech stack?
Joblaze extracted these technologies from the posting: AI/ML, Foundation Models, PostgreSQL.
What seniority level is this role?
Doss targets staff-level candidates for this position.
Is this full-time or contract?
Full-time for this Founding Applied AI Engineer role at Doss.

From the original posting

About Doss

 
  • Procurement

  • Inventory

  • Orders

  • Fulfillment

  • Finance

About the role:

Every ERP claims to be "AI-powered." Almost none of them let an operator ask a question in plain language and get an answer grounded in their live procurement, inventory, and finance data, let alone let an agent safely take action on it. That's the goal of this job: you'll own applied AI across Doss: Dossbot (query, analyze, and automate via chat), AI-assisted schema and workflow generation, and the agentic automations that turn back-office busywork into background processes. You'll be the technical anchor for how foundation models meet a transactional system of record.

What you’ll do:

  • Own the applied AI architecture end-to-end: model selection, orchestration, RAG over the unified operational data model, evals, guardrails, and cost/latency budgets in production.

  • Build Dossbot into the primary interface for operations: natural-language search, analysis, and automation grounded in live supply-chain, finance, and ops data.

  • Engineer AI-assisted tooling that uses foundation models to propose, validate, and apply customer schemas and workflow definitions on live production tenants.

  • Design agentic workflows that act inside enterprise guardrails: permission-aware, auditable, tenant-isolated, and safe to run against a customer's system of record.

  • Stand up the eval and observability infrastructure to measure quality, catch regressions, and proactively detect anomalous or risky emergent behavior.

  • Partner with product, design, and our Forward Deployed team to deliver on their highest-leverage AI use cases.

  • Mentor and shape engineering culture as the team's center of gravity for applied AI, raising the bar on how we build, evaluate, and ship LLM-powered systems.

What we’re looking for:

Experience

  • Shipped LLM-powered features or agents to production and operated them at scale, not just prototypes or demos.

  • Deep hands-on work with foundation model APIs, RAG pipelines, tool use/function calling, prompt and context engineering, and fine-tuning where it earns its keep.

  • Built eval harnesses and guardrails for non-deterministic systems running against business-critical data.

  • Strong backend fundamentals: Designing systems, Postgres, and cloud services for reliable, multi-tenant web applications.

  • Going from 0 to 1 in ambiguous settings, and judgment for when AI is the right tool and when it isn't.

Qualities

  • Team player: you bring positivity, openness, and curiosity to the team every day.

  • Growth mindset: everything is an opportunity to learn and improve yourself, the team, and the company.

  • Craftsmanship: you care about making something of quality.

  • Customer First: you care immensely about the customer experience journey and want to create a product full of delight.

  • Pragmatic: you make the right decision based on circumstance, not theory.

  • Low Ego: you work best in collaborative environments where everyone supports the team.

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