Founding Lead AI Engineer | AI-first Startup

Skoll is an AI-first startup assembling a world-class founding team to develop innovative AI-driven solutions. They are seeking a Founding Lead AI Engineer to architect and build the core of their next-gen SaaS platform, focusing on creating intelligent systems and dynamic agents.

Responsibilities:

• Design intelligent agent frameworks and retrieval pipelines that enable dynamic, real-world decision making
• Architect modular, testable AI systems that integrate seamlessly with our core backend and product layer
• Create flexible APIs that power decision automation and context-aware execution
• Deploy and fine-tune open or closed-source LLMs to serve dynamic, context-rich use cases
• Implement embedding models and search workflows to provide grounding, relevance, and long-term memory
• Continuously optimize model performance and pipeline speed, balancing quality and cost
• Structure ingestion pipelines for both structured and unstructured data
• Build foundational components that allow our AI systems to learn from real-world signals and interactions
• Enable real-time, feedback-driven improvement across key AI workflows
• Partner closely with the commercial founders to define the AI roadmap and product priorities
• Work alongside full-stack engineers to integrate agentic capabilities into the end-user experience
• Lead with a lean, iterative mindset, automate what can be automated, and always ship value
• Stay sharp on LLM innovation, agentic tooling, RAG systems, and co-pilot frameworks