WorkOS

Applied AI Engineer

WorkOS

full-time

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Location Type: Hybrid

Location: San Francisco • California • United States

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Salary

💰 $175,000 - $275,000 per year

About the role

  • Work closely with Engineering, Sales, Support, and Ops to uncover high‑leverage internal problems where AI can remove bottlenecks or unlock new workflows.
  • Design and build tools that become part of people’s daily work – agents, automations, and workflows that are stable, observable, and easy to maintain.
  • Use LLMs, embeddings, retrieval, and tool‑calling to plug into docs, Slack, GitHub, CRM, analytics, support systems, and internal services.
  • Replace repetitive, multi‑step manual processes with orchestrated, AI‑driven flows that span multiple apps and data sources.
  • Stay current on new models and tooling, run focused experiments, and help the team converge on patterns, libraries, and infra that compound over time.

Requirements

  • You’ve taken AI‑powered systems from idea to production and through at least one iteration cycle with real users.
  • Strong engineering fundamentals. You’re comfortable owning services, data flows, and integrations end‑to‑end.
  • Experience with LLM APIs, embeddings, retrieval / RAG‑style architectures, and structured tool‑calling (or agents), even if not all in production yet.
  • You’re comfortable stitching together APIs, webhooks, event systems, and internal tools, and you think about failure modes, observability, and ownership.
  • Bias toward action. You care less about showing off a model and more about removing real bottlenecks, saving hours, or unlocking workflows the company couldn’t do before.
  • Comfort with ambiguity and fast change. You enjoy working in areas where the problem, the tools, and the “right” patterns are evolving quickly – and you’re excited to help define them.
  • Nice to have: Prior work with enterprise SaaS, identity / auth, or security‑sensitive systems.
  • Nice to have: Exposure to MCP or similar protocols for connecting AI agents to real systems.
Benefits
  • Competitive pay
  • Substantial equity grants
  • Healthcare insurance (Medical, Dental and Vision) for you and your family
  • 401k matching
  • Wellness and fitness monthly allowances
  • PTO + paid holidays + unlimited sick leave
  • Autonomy and flexibility with remote work
Applicant Tracking System Keywords

Tip: use these terms in your resume and cover letter to boost ATS matches.

Hard Skills & Tools
AI-powered systemsLLM APIsembeddingsretrievalRAG-style architecturesstructured tool-callingAPI integrationwebhooksevent systemsdata flows
Soft Skills
strong engineering fundamentalsbias toward actioncomfort with ambiguityadaptability to fast changeproblem-solvingownershipobservabilitycollaborationcritical thinkinguser-centric design