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Founding Applied AI Engineer at Echelon AI

Work with the founders of Moveworks on a mission to automate the $1T IT services industry. This role offers the rare chance to move beyond AI 'copilots' and build autonomous digital workers that own full delivery cycles for Fortune 500 enterprises. Backed by Bain Capital Ventures and angels from Anthropic and Salesforce, this founding team is applying RL and advanced reasoning to high-stakes enterprise systems. If you are a builder-scientist who wants to bridge the gap between research and massive commercial impact, this is your chance to own the core agent architecture and secure a meaningful stake in a category-defining company.

Overview

Role overview

You will architect the core reasoning systems for autonomous digital workers capable of owning full delivery cycles across platforms like ServiceNow and SAP. Moving beyond simple productivity tools, you will design RL-driven agents that plan, build, and test enterprise software in high-stakes environments, transforming the $1T IT services industry.

Company

Echelon AI

Echelon AI

Stealth enterprise AI startup founded by the Moveworks team and backed by Bain Capital Ventures

Responsibilities

What you will do

  • Architect hierarchical planners and multi-agent coordination systems (planner ⇄ executor ⇄ verifier) to automate complex enterprise workflows.
  • Design and implement RL and preference optimization loops that improve agent performance based on business outcomes and real-world deployment data.
  • Build robust evaluation suites and sandboxing strategies to ensure safe, repeatable, and auditable autonomous changes in regulated environments.

Candidate profile

Who this is a fit for

  • 3+ years of experience shipping production-grade ML or LLM systems with a deep understanding of API orchestration and async workflows.
  • Strong engineering fundamentals in TypeScript and experience operationalizing research into reliable, scalable software systems.
  • A builder-scientist hybrid mindset with expertise or high curiosity in fine-tuning, RLHF, and agentic reasoning frameworks.

What makes it remarkable

Why this role is remarkable

  • Significant founding equity and architectural ownership at a company founded by the team that built Moveworks (acquired for $2.85B by ServiceNow).
  • Backed by top-tier investors including Bain Capital Ventures and prominent angels from Anthropic, ServiceNow, Salesforce, and Meta.
  • Unique opportunity to apply RL and reasoning research to real-world enterprise infrastructure with immediate Fortune 500 demand and traction.

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