careers
AI Engineer
location
San Francisco, CA / Lake Tahoe, Nevada / Remote (US preferred)
type
Full-time
level
Senior
reports to ceo
CTO
compensation
Competitive salary + generous equity

AI Engineer

location
San Francisco, CA / Lake Tahoe, Nevada / Remote (US preferred)
type
Full-time
level
Senior
reports to
CTO
compensation
Competitive salary + generous equity

About Onboarded

At Onboarded, we’re building the AI-powered infrastructure for onboarding and compliance. Companies across staffing, gig work, and franchising trust us to onboard thousands of employees each month—securely, compliantly, and efficiently.

We believe the future of onboarding isn’t just forms and checklists. It’s intelligent agents, dynamic workflows, and automation that adapts to regulatory complexity. Our stack powers the most critical, high-stakes moments of employment—like verifying work authorization, collecting withholdings, and guiding a candidate through industry-specific training.

We’re backed by top investors and growing fast. Now we’re hiring our first AI engineer to help bring this future to life.

What You’ll Do

You’ll be the founding engineer focused on AI—and work shoulder-to-shoulder with our CTO and product engineering team to:

  • Build the Form Agent: Take a PDF or image, extract the content, classify it, and generate structured YAML schemas for our onboarding form builder.
  • Own prompt engineering: Design, iterate, and evaluate prompts for our form generation engine, candidate agents, and compliance routing tools.
  • Architect document intelligence workflows: Combine OCR, model inference, validation rules, and human-in-the-loop feedback to build reliable, scalable pipelines.
  • Implement agent flows: Build Slack, SMS, or web-based agent workflows that help recruiters, admins, and candidates navigate onboarding.
  • Design eval systems: Create testing infrastructure to track accuracy, hallucination, cost, latency, and iteration impact.
  • Work full-stack: While AI will be your focus, we value engineers who can jump into APIs, SDKs, and front-end surfaces when needed.
  • Define how we build with AI: Set tooling, best practices, and cultural expectations around AI-native product development.

What We’re Looking For

  • You’ve built AI-powered product features and shipped them to real users.
  • You’re fluent in LLMs, embeddings, vector databases, and prompt engineering.
  • You’re excited to work on structured data, not just unstructured chat.
  • You enjoy writing clean, scalable Python—and bonus if you know TypeScript.
  • You’ve worked in a startup and love solving ambiguous, unsolved problems.
  • You can balance innovation and pragmatism. You know when to fine-tune and when to prompt; when to test and when to ship.
  • You thrive in a fast-moving team, value collaboration, and want to shape the product as much as the code.

Our Stack

  • AI: GPT-4, Claude, Gemini, VertexAI, LangChain
  • Frontend: React, Tailwind, TypeScript
  • Backend: Node.js, PostgreSQL, Prisma
  • Infra: Vercel, AWS, Docker
  • Docs + APIs: OpenAPI 3.1, Swagger, YAML-based schema system

What We Offer

  • Competitive salary + equity in a fast-growing startup
  • Health, dental, vision, and 401k options
  • Remote-first culture with in-person offsites
  • High ownership, high impact, zero bureaucracy
  • A chance to shape the AI layer of compliance at the ground floor

How to Apply

Send a quick intro + your resume or LinkedIn to careers@onboarded.com. Links to projects, GitHub, or anything you’ve built with AI are especially welcome.