Founding Staff ML / AI Engineer
Content + Source + Freshness • 12 Dec 2025 • 95% confidence
Offer value
Highly valuable role in a leading startup with competitive compensation and pioneering AI/ML opportunities.
- Exceptional compensation: $250,000–$300,000/year
- Leadership role in pioneering AI development
- Direct engagement with executive management
Pros
- Top-tier salary range ($250,000–$300,000/year) for ML/AI roles
- Chance to shape the future of AI within the company
- Collaboration with top-level executives
Cons
- Requires extensive experience with AI/ML in a startup context
- High performance expectations with rapid project cycles
- Potential lack of work-life balance in early-stage startups
Who it's for
Senior / Expert • In-office (NYC)
Good fit
- Senior professionals in AI/ML looking for impactful roles
- Candidates eager to lead in a high-growth startup
- Individuals with strong analytical and technical skills
Not recommended for
- New graduates or those without AI/ML experience
- Professionals seeking routine and predictable job roles
- Individuals preferring well-established companies
Motivation fit
Key skills
About the job
Confido is building an AI-native operating system for brands that sell into brick-and-mortar retail. We’re building intuitive and powerful software paired with AI agents that help brands automate the 1000s of hours of tedious manual work that goes into scaling a brand in retail. Brands like Tropicana and Olipop use our first products in accounting and planning to account for and plan for $Bs of retail revenue.
We have best-in-class growth (5x YoY), efficiency, and we’ve recently raised a $15M Series A to build on the existing momentum.
You will be our Founding Staff ML / AI Engineer, setting the foundation for evolving our AI / ML capabilities. We have a unique mix of work across LLMs and advanced machine learning.
Potential Projects:
- Developing agentic systems to retrieve information from legacy systems
- Leverage NLP and LLMs to understand complex documents
- Predict brand sales using advanced machine learning techniques
- Detect anomalies in sales data to help brands sell more
- Recommend the optimal promotion for a brand at a retailer
What You'll Do:
- Own the full AI / ML lifecycle—from research & prototyping to production deployment & monitoring
- Collaborate directly with our CTO and CEO to define our technical and product strategy.
About You:
- Minimum of 5 years of Applied AI / ML experience, ideally in a startup environment
- Strong product mindset—the ability to bridge AI capabilities with real-world usage
- Experience fine-tuning LLMs (Llama, GPT) and designing AI prompt workflows.
- Strong background in ML systems design and engineering best practices
