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MeritFirst
Austin, TX (In Person)
$175,000 Salary, Full-Time
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AI Engineer MeritFirst Austin, TX Job Details Full-time $100,000
- $250,000 a year 16 hours ago Qualifications APIs Full Job Description AI Engineer One application
- > a network of AI-transformation teams MeritFirst is a curated talent network for high-growth and investor-backed companies
- 8VC and Slow Ventures portfolio companies and many others. A growing set of our partners
- AI-transformation funds, family offices, and operator-led investment teams
- forward-deploy engineers into the real businesses they own and back.
We flip that:
apply through MeritFirst, take a 20-minute work sample, and your actual ability goes straight to the hiring principal. What you'd be doing Deploy into real, profitable businesses- healthcare, professional services, multi-site operators, manufacturers
- often in a sector you don't know yet Decompose an ambiguous problem: talk to the head of engineering and the person running the machine, pull the right threads, decide what to build Build production AI that moves the P&L
- agents, automation, integrations
- not pilots or slide decks Work shoulder-to-shoulder with CEOs, COOs, and operators Turn each engagement into a repeatable playbook the next deployment can reuse Who we're looking for You've shipped real software with LLMs and AI APIs (OpenAI, Anthropic, or comparable); strong in Python plus TypeScript, SQL, or scripting You thrive in ambiguity and minimal context
- you're done building demos and want work that matters Systems thinker who maps a workflow end to end and sees where AI creates leverage You communicate as well with a non-technical operator as with an engineer
Bonus:
multi-site operations, professional services, or PE-backed / operator-adjacent experience Want to skip the line? Take our 20-minute assessment- a real work sample that puts your problem-solving in front of a hiring principal faster than any resume.
Compensation Range:
$100K- $250K