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AI Engineer Defense AI Startup $250K + Equity

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Benchstack Ai

San Diego, CA (In Person)

$205,000 Salary, Full-Time

Posted 3 days ago (Updated 14 hours ago) • Actively hiring

Expires 7/11/2026

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AI Engineer•Defense AI Startup•$250K + Equity Full Time San Diego, CA, United States Posted 1 day ago

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Sep 7, 2026 Benchstack Ai Category Software Engineers/Developers Tags Industry NLP United States Share This Click to share on LinkedIn (Opens in new window) Click to share on Facebook (Opens in new window) Click to share on Twitter (Opens in new window) More Click to share on Reddit (Opens in new window) Click to share on Pinterest (Opens in new window) Click to share on Tumblr (Opens in new window) Click to share on Pocket (Opens in new window) Apply for job Login to bookmark this Job Overview AI Engineer•Defense AI Startup•$250k +Equity A $12M-backed AI startup is building something hard: an AI-native ERP, from scratch, for defense manufacturing. Not bolting ChatGPT onto a legacy system — actually building the brain. Multi-agent orchestration, agentic workflows, RAG, evals, the real stuff. You'd join an early team (~15 people) and work on the critical path alongside the founding engineers. High trust, high ownership, immediate impact. What you'll do Build the LLM orchestration layer using multi-agent frameworksDesign agentic workflows that track state, propose actions, and complete multi-step tasksBuild structured prompting systems — function-calling, memory, safety constraintsWork with RAG, embeddings, and retrieval infrastructureEvaluate and integrate emerging agent frameworks What we're looking for 3-5+ years in Python backend + production AI/LLM systemsHands-on with LLM APIs (OpenAI, Anthropic) and orchestration frameworks (LangChain, LangGraph, Strands)Experience shipping AI products from prototype to productionComfortable in a small, fast-moving startup

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ERP, manufacturing, or defense tech background Logistics $160K•250K base + equity

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San Diego (3 days/week), or Bay Area/LA flying in one week per monthUS citizen or green card holder only (ITAR) Sound like you? Apply!

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