Founding AI Systems Engineer, Yask

The Initial Wedge

Why This Is a Rare Challenge for a Great Engineer

• Watch how work actually happens
• See where execution breaks
• Design agentic systems, memory layers, and feedback loops that make that work easier
• Ship quickly, measure impact, and make the system sharper from real usage

What You’ll Actually Need to Do

• Audit the existing prototype and decide what to keep, what to rewrite, and how to turn it into an MVP architecture
• Design and implement agent orchestration patterns, memory/context layers, and retrieval pipelines for production use
• Build the feedback loops that let the system learn from user corrections and field signals
• Ship production-grade services: APIs, data pipelines, CI/CD, observability, and security fundamentals
• Instrument telemetry so we can see usage quality, drift, task success, and system performance
• Run fast experiments tied to real user behavior and measurable improvement
• Document architecture decisions and create onboarding artifacts for future engineers
• Work in-person with product, research, leadership, and customers to ground technical choices in field reality

Who Thrives Here

• You have built and shipped agentic or LLM-driven systems in production
• You understand memory, context engineering, and RAG from experience, not theory
• You’ve taken a system from prototype to production before
• You are comfortable making pragmatic trade-offs to ship and learn quickly
• You like working directly with product, researchers, and users in person
• You enjoy ambiguity when it’s paired with real ownership
• You want to be a founding engineer, not a ticket-taker
• You see Bentonville as a strategic advantage, not a compromise

What We Offer

• Base salary: $170,000–$195,000 (flexible for exceptional candidates)
• Founding-team-level equity
• Relocation support

• Health, dental, and vision
• 401(k) with match
• Generous PTO
• Cell reimbursement, parking stipend
• Weekly team lunches
• Dog-friendly office
• Flexible, high-autonomy culture

Location and Work Style

About Yask

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