Product Engineer, Applied AI

Qualifications

• Have 3+ years of experience building production-ready distributed systems and 1+ years of experience with production grade AI applications
• Have worked with data-rich systems and are comfortable reasoning across messy and fragmented datasets
• Are excited by LLMs, tool-use, and applied reasoning, and have built or experimented with intelligent agent workflows
• Have a strong bias for action, and enjoy collaborating in small, nimble teams
• Hold a high bar for simplicity, reliability, and product-minded engineering
• Regularly use tools like Copilot, Cursor, GPTs, etc

Benefits

• This role offers a base salary ranging from $120,000 to $240,000, depending on factors including individual qualifications, prior relevant experience, potential impact, and scope of role, as well as market demands
• Compensation also includes equity and numerous perks and benefits, such as:
• Best in class medical, dental, and vision plans through our PEO
• A monthly wellness stipend to support your health goals
• 401K through Guideline to help you invest in your future
• Access to mentorship programs through First Round Capital for personal growth and development
• 10 company holidays and discretionary vacation with a baseline requirement of 2 weeks / year
• In person offices in NY / SF or a work from home stipend to help you set up your home office

Responsibilities

• Build agentic AI systems end-to-end: Architect and implement intelligent agents that extract insights from fragmented data sources and power real-world workflows
• Engineer an extensible AI platform:
• A flexible data ingestion layer that connects to warehouses, databases, CRMs, public datasets, and crawlers
• A semantic enrichment and transformation engine, leveraging LLMs and tool-use to reason about and contextualize query entities
• A query engine that enables low-latency filtering and aggregation of enriched entities
• A workflow orchestration layer that lets users trigger actions in tools like Slack, Outreach, and CRMs via APIs or webhooks
• Prototype, iterate, and ship quickly: You'll have deep autonomy to test ideas, own systems, and ship features that impact customers directly
• Prioritize security and reliability: Handle sensitive customer data with best-in-class security practices and a strong foundation of reliability
• Elevate the engineering bar: We value clean abstractions, fast feedback loops, thoughtful testing, and excellent developer tooling
• Think in systems, debug across stacks, and don't hesitate to dive deep when needed

Full Description

Pocus exists to supercharge GTM teams, making every rep a 10x seller. We achieve this by creating the world's most powerful, AI-native prospecting technology that influences nearly half a billion in pipeline per quarter for our customers.

We're trusted by high growth companies like Asana, Monday, Canva, and Miro, where Pocus powers up to 50% of their pipeline and eliminates 10+ hrs of work per rep per week.

About Us

Pocus has hundreds of always-on AI agents doing the manual, tedious work of researching & prospecting, so that reps can do what they do best: sell.

Our AI agents work for our users, providing alerts when compelling events happen, account plans are generated by AI, and agents recommend who to reach out to with the next best action.

We're fortunate to be backed by First Round, Coatue, and execs like CEO Zoom, CPO Adobe, CRO OpenAI, who are helping us usher in this future of sales.

The Pocus Team

We're a team of humble overachievers who like to move quickly (we call it shiperate), own our work, give customers superpowers, and create magic for our team... all while having a ton of fun.

About the Role

Pocus is powered by a custom-built agentic AI platform designed to help users ingest, reason over, and take action on structured and semi-structured data-whether it's public or private.

As an Applied AI Engineer, you'll work at the intersection of cutting-edge AI and robust systems, helping to design and build intelligent agents that deeply understand data and drive workflows end-to-end.

Your Responsibilities

• Build agentic AI systems end-to-end: Architect and implement intelligent agents that extract insights from fragmented data sources and power real-world workflows.

• Engineer an extensible AI platform:

• A flexible data ingestion layer that connects to warehouses, databases, CRMs, public datasets, and crawlers.

• A semantic enrichment and transformation engine, leveraging LLMs and tool-use to reason about and contextualize query entities.

• A query engine that enables low-latency filtering and aggregation of enriched entities.

• A workflow orchestration layer that lets users trigger actions in tools like Slack, Outreach, and CRMs via APIs or webhooks.

• Prototype, iterate, and ship quickly: You'll have deep autonomy to test ideas, own systems, and ship features that impact customers directly.

• Prioritize security and reliability: Handle sensitive customer data with best-in-class security practices and a strong foundation of reliability.

• Elevate the engineering bar: We value clean abstractions, fast feedback loops, thoughtful testing, and excellent developer tooling.

What You Bring

We're still early and moving fast-ideal teammates thrive with autonomy, ambiguity, and high impact. You might be a fit if you:

• Have 3+ years of experience building production-ready distributed systems and 1+ years of experience with production grade AI applications.

• Have worked with data-rich systems and are comfortable reasoning across messy and fragmented datasets.

• Are excited by LLMs, tool-use, and applied reasoning, and have built or experimented with intelligent agent workflows.

• Have a strong bias for action, and enjoy collaborating in small, nimble teams.

• Think in systems, debug across stacks, and don't hesitate to dive deep when needed.

• Hold a high bar for simplicity, reliability, and product-minded engineering.

• Regularly use tools like Copilot, Cursor, GPTs, etc. to boost productivity and explore new ideas.

Compensation & Benefits

This role offers a base salary ranging from $120,000 to $240,000, depending on factors including individual qualifications, prior relevant experience, potential impact, and scope of role, as well as market demands.

Compensation also includes equity and numerous perks and benefits, such as:

• Best in class medical, dental, and vision plans through our PEO.

• A monthly wellness stipend to support your health goals.

• 401K through Guideline to help you invest in your future.

• Access to mentorship programs through First Round Capital for personal growth and development.

• 10 company holidays and discretionary vacation with a baseline requirement of 2 weeks / year.

• In person offices in NY / SF or a work from home stipend to help you set up your home office.

DE&I

At Pocus, we welcome diverse backgrounds and celebrate different perspectives that challenge the status quo. We will never discriminate on the basis of religion, color, gender identity, disability, marital status or any other characteristics protected by law.