Applied AI Engineer
Content + Source + Freshness • 11 Dec 2025 • 95% confidence
Offer value
The opportunity to work on innovative AI technologies in a pivotal role provides high career growth potential.
- Significant role in AI innovation and product impacts.
- Involvement in shaping the future of document processing.
- Collaborative work with a talented, experienced team.
Pros
- Direct impact on product features that affect all customers.
- Engagement with cutting-edge AI research and applications.
- Influence in shaping the future of document processing technology.
Cons
- Potentially high pressure with significant responsibility.
- Ambiguity surrounding product direction may be challenging.
- Work intensity may impact work-life balance for some.
Who it's for
Mid-Level to Senior • On-site
Good fit
- Innovative engineers passionate about AI applications.
- Candidates ready to address practical challenges in AI.
- Professionals seeking to work with leading-edge technology.
Not recommended for
- Individuals requiring clear, pre-defined roles.
- Those uninterested in hands-on involvement with AI solutions.
- Candidates not passionate about addressing real-world applications.
Motivation fit
Key skills
About the job
Extend is building a modern document processing platform, reimagined with LLMs. We're on a mission to transform how the world works with unstructured data.
As an AI Engineer at Extend, you’ll be responsible for building state-of-the-art document processing infrastructure and applied AI product features. The work you do will impact every single customer across the millions of documents that our system ingests and processes every month.
We’re looking to hire engineers who think creatively about problems, keep up to date on the latest in AI research, push for real-world customer impact (not only theory), and are excited about helping businesses tackle one of their most painful problems with AI.
Why you should consider joining
We've grown revenue 15x this year to 7-figures in ARR, with our growth continuing to accelerate
We have a product loved by users and being used in mission-critical flows at companies like Brex, Checkr, Opendoor, Chime, and many more
We're building the next generation document processing platform — the market for document processing has expanded 1000x due to LLMs, and existing solutions are all low NPS
We're punching well above our weight, supporting customer and revenue metrics with half the team size of other startups — everyone joining at this stage will have outsized impact
We have a very talent dense team (e.g. former founders, world record holders) operating in a high performance culture, in-person in NYC, with high equity ownership
We're tackling novel, unsolved problems at the intersection of LLMs, complex data processing, and human ↔ AI interfaces
We're backed by world class investors, including YC, Homebrew, investors from OpenAI, and more
We're a lean team, and our customer base is growing too fast for us to keep up. We're looking for talented engineers to join our founding team ahead of our next round and execute on an ambitious roadmap.
Impact
We're powering mission-critical data processing at companies where if we get things wrong, there are real world impacts (e.g. missed payments, people can't move into homes on time).
Here's a few of the complex problems you’ll be working on:
Building a QA Agent to flag low confidence results
Creating multimodal models for document layout awareness
Novel chunking strategies for handling long documents
Building data pipelines and evaluating model performance
Building a self-correcting system that automatically gets better over time
Role
Design novel LLM techniques for increasing the complexity of use cases and data streams that Extend can be applied to
Monitor existing models in production, understand what’s working well (and what isn’t), and run experiments to solve those issues
Have complete ownership over the work you do — as a founding team member, you’ll have the opportunity to truly own large areas of product and engineering and have direct relationship with customers.
Work directly with the CEO, CTO, and other founding members and help build out our team.
