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Compensation
Competitive compensation; Platform Manager role mentions equity reflecting founding nature. AI Engineer role is 1099 contract (~30–40 hrs/wk).
- Salary period
- unclear
- Location basis
- unclear
- Equity
- Equity reflects founding nature of the seat (Platform Manager role).
Tech stack
Required
Location
Remote (US)
Work setup
- Employment
- Full-time / Part-time / Contract / 1099 contract
- Level
- Senior, Mid-level, Senior
- Remote policy
- Remote (US). Monthly US travel to one major metro for Lead AI Engineer; occasional US travel for AI Engineer; quarterly US travel for Platform Manager.
- Remote scope
- country-limited
- Travel
- Monthly US travel to one major metro (Lead AI Engineer); Occasional US travel (AI Engineer); Quarterly US travel (Platform Manager).
- Visa
- unclear
Role details
Responsibilities
- Architect the engine for a multi-agent orchestration build; design the patterns to replicate at the next client
- Embed as a technical lead for one engagement; replicate patterns across clients
- End-to-end ownership of individual capability agents including prompts, tools, retrieval, evals, monitoring
- Own the roadmap for the productized governance, evaluation, and deployment surface
- Write code for the platform
- Set operational posture (SLOs, on-call, audit)
Requirements
- 6+ yrs eng
- 2+ shipping LLM/agentic systems in production
- Strong Python
- Opinions on agent frameworks
- 3–5 yrs strong Python
- Real production LLM API experience
- Shipped at least one agent system end-to-end
- 1099 contract availability
- 5+ yrs
- Prior engineer-in-charge experience
Application
Apply per each JD's instructions, to talent+hn@cwai.co. Short cover note matters more than a resume.
- Email subject
- New role application
- Cover letter
- Short cover note matters more than a resume.
- Apply flow
- Canonical URL
- https://catalystwayfare.ai/careers
Company context
Ship working production AI systems for mid-market enterprises in regulated and technical domains, alongside clients' engineering teams.
- Product
- Production AI systems and productized governance, evaluation, and deployment surface (Trust.ML)
- Industry
- AI transformation
- Stage
- venture-funded AI infrastructure companies (comparison mentioned)
- Open source
- open-source models when the math points there
Contact
talent+hn@cwai.co
Description
Catalyst·Wayfare AI is an AI transformation firm shipping production AI systems for mid-market enterprises in regulated and technical domains. They work alongside clients' engineering teams, with small teams and real autonomy. The posting includes three roles: (1) Lead AI Engineer, Agentic Systems: embedded technical lead for a multi-agent orchestration build; architect the engine; design patterns to replicate; requires 6+ years engineering experience and 2+ LLM/agentic systems shipped in production; strong Python and opinions on agent frameworks; monthly US travel to a major metro. (2) AI Engineer, Agent Builder: hands-on builder embedded on the same engagement; end-to-end ownership of individual capability agents including prompts, tools, retrieval, evals, monitoring; requires 3–5 years strong Python and real production LLM API experience with shipped agent system end-to-end; 1099 contract (~30–40 hrs/wk) and occasional US travel. (3) Platform Manager (Engineering), Trust.ML: founding platform engineer on a productized governance, evaluation, and deployment surface; own roadmap, write code, set operational posture (SLOs, on-call, audit); requires 5+ years and prior engineer-in-charge experience; quarterly US travel; compensation competitive with senior platform roles at venture-funded AI infrastructure companies; equity reflects founding nature.
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