AI Engineer
Content + Source + Freshness • 12 Dec 2025 • 95% confidence
Offer value
High value offering due to competitive salary, opportunity for innovation, and ability to shape AI-powered products in a dynamic environment.
- Direct impact in AI product development
- High salary range: $170,000 to $225,000/year
- Engagement in a fast-paced startup environment
Pros
- Opportunity to lead AI product development
- High-impact role directly working with founders
- Competitive salary range in the tech industry
Cons
- High expectations for skills and experience may filter candidates
- Potentially demanding workload as the team expands
- Individual fit in a lean startup culture can be challenging
Who it's for
Senior Level • On-site in New York
Good fit
- Senior professionals in AI and product design
- Candidates wanting to lead innovative AI projects
- Individuals skilled in user-centric design and development
Not recommended for
- Lesser experienced candidates without AI expertise
- Individuals looking for a structured corporate culture
- Candidates uncomfortable with high levels of responsibility
Motivation fit
Key skills
About the job
We’re hiring for our first AI Engineer. Someone who’s excited to own and build all things AI at Coast. You’ll be responsible for designing and building features that make it faster and more powerful to create functional demos. You should have strong instincts for both AI-powered product experiences and the underlying technical systems to make them real.
What you’ll work on:
- Design and implement agentic workflows that help users generate UI layouts, flows, and content automatically
- Build AI-powered copilots that assist with creating components, writing code, and refining interfaces
- Implement RAG systems that leverage documentation, design systems, and component libraries
- Optimize for speed, determinism, and quality across creative and structured AI outputs
- Push the boundaries of what’s possible in an AI-first design + build environment
You might be a fit if you’ve:
- Built AI features for design tools (e.g. auto-layout, design-to-code, style transfer)
- Created developer copilots (e.g. natural language to UI, code completion, intelligent suggestions)
- Worked with vector graphics, color palettes, or typography AI
- Integrated AI into design systems, no-code tools, or IDEs
- Used GPT-4, Claude 3+, and open-source models in production
- Built advanced prompt-engineered workflows that balance creativity and accuracy
- Worked with ASTs, design tokens, or component trees
- Made AI outputs context-aware (e.g. understanding canvas or code state)
Bonus if you’ve:
- Experience with semantic embeddings for search and retrieval
- Contributed to or built internal tooling for prompt testing and LLM evaluation
- A strong product sense and love building intuitive UI/UX alongside designers
Why Coast:
We’re a lean, fast-moving team that’s obsessed with product and serving our customers. You’ll work directly with our founders, ship ambitious products, and help define the future of AI-powered software creation.
