Ref: KY-2026-01522

    Founding AI Engineer (Conversational AI)

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    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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