Founding AI Engineer

About Nowadays

• Nowadays is the first AI platform for planning corporate events. For example, our AI can contact venues by email and phone to get availability, deal with back-and-forth negotiations, and present the best options.
• We’ve proudly planned events ranging from Amazon’s intimate executive dinners in New York, to Quantstamp’s product launch in Turkey, to Google’s offsite at Universal.
• Within the first 6 months of launching, Nowadays has experienced exponential growth, growing to $3.4M in booked revenue from customers including Amazon, Google, and Notion.
• Nowadays’ leadership team is comprised of talented MIT software engineering graduates as well as prestigious backgrounds including Google, Meta, Amazon, Doordash, and McKinsey.

Mission

• Our mission is to simplify the process of bringing people together by automating the complexity behind events. Our vision? To become the go-to platform for organizing unforgettable events — making it easy and accessible for everyone, everywhere.
• As a Founding AI Engineer, you'll play a pivotal role in shaping our tech, product, and culture — and in building the future of how people gather.
• 💼 What You’ll Do:

• Build and scale AI systems that automate our event-planning workflow end-to-end
• Develop and scale AI agents for auto-emailing, calling, web scraping, and deep research
• Improve accuracy and reduce hallucinations across our LLM-powered features
• Design and implement scalable AI workflows using modern LLM frameworks and tools
• Work with real customer data to identify automation opportunities and validate AI solutions
• Build evaluation systems to measure and improve AI performance over time
• Partner closely with product and ops teams to understand pain points and ship AI features that matter
• Shape our AI/ML architecture and practices from the ground up

🥇 What you’ll bring:

• Experience building and deploying AI / LLM systems in production
• Strong proficiency in Python and modern AI/LLM frameworks (LangChain, LlamaIndex, etc.)
• Deep understanding of prompt engineering, RAG, and techniques to improve LLM accuracy
• Experience with AI agents, tool calling, and autonomous systems
• Comfort with full-stack development and shipping features end-to-end
• A bias toward action—you like moving fast, experimenting, and iterating based on real-world results
• Excitement about pushing the boundaries of what AI can automate in complex workflows

✨ Bonus Points

• Experience building AI web agents or browser automation systems
• Zero-to-one AI product development experience
• Familiarity with evaluation frameworks and AI observability tools
• Published research or contributions to open-source AI projects

• 🥰 Why Nowadays?
• Compensation & Benefits

• Working Times: US (PST) Hours
• Must be based in San Francisco
• $130K-$170K
• 0.5% - 2% equity

The amount listed above is the expected annual base salary for this role, subject to change.

All of our employees get

• Free lunch and dinner
• Quarterly team offsites (yes, we went to the White Lotus S3 hotel in Thailand)
• Monthly fitness stipend
• Health insurance
• 12 weeks paid parental leave
• Generous PTO with required time off to recharge
• High ownership, autonomy, and direct access to founders
• Access to top venues, events, and travel experiences