Applied AI Engineer
Bengaluru (On-site)
Full Time
Posted on
We’re hiring an Applied AI Engineer to build the next generation of AI copilots inside Clueso. This role is about turning fast-moving LLM and vLLM capabilities into reliable, production-grade systems. You’ll work on agents that understand context, reason over complex inputs, and assist users inside real workflows—not demos, not prototypes. We care far more about how you think than any specific framework. If you’re genuinely sharp, curious, and have spent real time working with modern AI systems, you’ll do great here.
What you’ll work on
Building AI copilots that operate inside real product workflows
Designing agent architectures that combine LLMs, vLLMs, and deterministic systems
Translating fuzzy user intent into structured, reliable actions
Evaluating new models as they ship—and rethinking pipelines when capabilities change
Debugging and improving AI systems based on real user behavior, not benchmarks
Working closely with product and engineering to ship AI features end-to-end
This is not a research role. It’s applied, hands-on, and deeply tied to shipping.
What we’re looking for
Exceptionally strong problem-solving ability and technical judgment
Prior experience working with LLMs or vLLMs in non-trivial systems
Comfort operating in ambiguous problem spaces with incomplete information
Ability to reason about tradeoffs between AI-driven and deterministic approaches
Strong software engineering fundamentals (you write clean, debuggable code)
We don’t care where you learned this—startup, big tech, research lab, or self-directed work. We do care that you’ve gone deep.
Nice to have (not required)
Experience building AI agents, copilots, or workflow automation tools
Familiarity with evaluation, reliability, and failure modes of LLM systems
Experience working with multimodal models (text, vision, audio, video)
Comfort iterating quickly as models and constraints change
Why this role is different
You’ll work on problems that don’t have established playbooks yet
You’ll help decide what to build, not just how to build it
You’ll be surrounded by engineers who care about depth, speed, and craft
You’ll see your work used by real customers, at scale
If you’re excited by the idea of building AI systems that actually work in production and want to do it with a team that moves fast and thinks deeply, we’d love to talk.
Why Join Clueso
Loved product, proven traction: #1 Product of the Month on Product Hunt, 4.9 rating on G2, and fast-growing adoption across product, marketing, and L&D teams.
Hard, meaningful problems: Rich editors, AI-native UX, and systems that need to scale cleanly — not CRUD work.
Real ownership: You’ll own a core product area with direct founder collaboration.
Tight-knit, top-tier team: Small, highly driven team backed by YC.
Catered meals: Lunch and dinner (except Sundays) provided every day.
Epic offsites: Our last offsite was in Vietnam — and most of us ranked it the best trip of our lives.