Founding AI Engineer (Conversational AI)
CareerFinders Recruitment Services
Location
Remote
Fully Remote
Type
full-time
Experience
Senior (5+ yrs)
Salary (Gross)
Salary upon interview
Apply within
31 days
Category
AI & Machine Learning
About the Role
CareerFinders, on behalf of an adult creator-economy company with newly established operations in Cyprus, is seeking a Founding AI Engineer (Conversational AI) on a fully remote basis. In this role, you will build an AI-powered conversational system for creator brands from the ground up, managing personalised conversations, maintaining long-term memory, and optimising sales performance. You will also help build, hire, and lead the future engineering team while collaborating directly with the Founder.
Responsibilities
- Build conversational AI systems with consistent personas, long-term memory, and sales strategies
- Develop evaluation systems to measure AI performance against top human sellers and actual revenue
- Ensure production reliability, low latency, and cost efficiency
- Monitor, deploy, and maintain the system in production
- Hire and lead future engineers as the team grows
Requirements
- 5+ years of professional software engineering experience
- 1+ year delivering LLM features in production
- Experience building multi-turn conversational agents with long-term memory, tool calling, and session management
- Experience designing LLM evaluations, conversation testing, and A/B experiments
- Strong proficiency in TypeScript or Python and PostgreSQL
- Proven experience owning production systems, including deployment, monitoring, and incident management
- Based in Cyprus or able to work remotely with at least four hours of overlap with European working hours
- Nice to have: Experience building AI companion, character-based, or sales chat products
- Nice to have: Experience deploying and fine-tuning open-weight language models
- Nice to have: Founding-stage experience, including hiring and leading engineers
Benefits
- ✓Competitive senior-level base salary plus profit sharing
- ✓Fully remote work with flexible time zones
- ✓Direct collaboration with the Founder
- ✓Opportunity to shape company paid traffic strategy and AI-powered advertising systems
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