← Search all jobs

Founding Applied AI Engineer

Doss Com

San Francisco, CA · $230k–$260k a year · Posted October 27, 2026

Just laid off? Start here: a plan for the first weeks

See every open role at Doss Com

More in California job market · Technology & Software · Data & Analytics jobs

More roles at Doss Com

Similar jobs

Where San Francisco, CA ranks

Where San Francisco, CA placed in our monthly rankings, month by month. Each month stays online at its own address.

How AI is used in this kind of work

Among computer and information research scientists, AI is already used for a large share of the tasks. Measured exposure for computer and information research scientists: 34% (high).

Share of this job’s tasks that AI is already used for at work, from real usage. It is not a forecast of job loss, and a low number means no use seen yet. Source: Anthropic Economic Index.

Check how this applies to your own job

Skills this job asks for

Say which you have and which you want to build. We use it to match you to jobs like this one.

  • Procurement
  • ERP

About the job

ABOUT DOSS

DOSS IS BUILDING AN OPERATIONS CLOUD FOR THE REAL WORLD.

A modern, AI-native platform for physical product businesses to manage the flow of goods, dollars, and data in real time, across:

- Procurement

- Inventory

- Orders

- Fulfillment

- Finance

Built to replace spreadsheet chaos and rigid, consultant-heavy ERPs. Fast time-to-value, adaptable as the business evolves.

Through our Adaptive Resource Platform (ARP) and unified operational data model, teams deploy quickly, automate workflows, and make changes without months of re-implementation.

We recently raised a $55M Series B https://www.doss.com/news/doss-raises-55m-series-b, co-led by Madrona and Premji Invest. Participation from Intuit Ventures, Theory Ventures, General Catalyst, Contrary Capital, and Pathlight VC.

DOSS is trusted by fast-growing operators to run critical operations with speed, control, and confidence.

About the role:

Every ERP claims to be "AI-powered." Almost none of them let an operator ask a question in plain language and get an answer grounded in their live procurement, inventory, and finance data, let alone let an agent safely take action on it. That's the goal of this job: you'll own applied AI across Doss: Dossbot (query, analyze, and automate via chat), AI-assisted schema and workflow generation, and the agentic automations that turn back-office busywork into background processes. You'll be the technical anchor for how foundation models meet a transactional system of record.

What you’ll do:

- Own the applied AI architecture end-to-end: model selection, orchestration, RAG over the unified operational data model, evals, guardrails, and cost/latency budgets in production.

- Build Dossbot into the primary interface for operations: natural-language search, analysis, and automation grounded in live supply-chain, finance, and ops data.

- Engineer AI-assisted tooling that uses foundation models to propose, validate, and apply customer schemas and workflow definitions on live production tenants.

- Design agentic workflows that act inside enterprise guardrails: permission-aware, auditable, tenant-isolated, and safe to run against a customer's system of record.

- Stand up the eval and observability infrastructure to measure quality, catch regressions, and proactively detect anomalous or risky emergent behavior.

- Partner with product, design, and our Forward Deployed team to deliver on their highest-leverage AI use cases.

- Mentor and shape engineering culture as the team's center of gravity for applied AI, raising the bar on how we build, evaluate, and ship LLM-powered systems.

What we’re looking for:

Experience

- Shipped LLM-powered features or agents to production and operated them at scale, not just prototypes or demos.

- Deep hands-on work with foundation model APIs, RAG pipelines, tool use/function calling, prompt and context engineering, and fine-tuning where it earns its keep.

- Built eval harnesses and guardrails for non-deterministic systems running against business-critical data.

- Strong backend fundamentals: Designing systems, Postgres, and cloud services for reliable, multi-tenant web applications.

- Going from 0 to 1 in ambiguous settings, and judgment for when AI is the right tool and when it isn't.

Qualities

- Team player: you bring positivity, openness, and curiosity to the team every day.

- Growth mindset: everything is an opportunity to learn and improve yourself, the team, and the company.

- Craftsmanship: you care about making something of quality.

- Customer First: you care immensely about the customer experience journey and want to create a product full of delight.

- Pragmatic: you make the right decision based on circumstance, not theory.

- Low Ego: you work best in collaborative environments where everyone supports the team.