Founding AI Engineer

We are hiring our Founding AI Engineer to own the brain of an AI-first fundraising platform: the matching engine and the agents built on top of it. Paires is where founders come to raise capital. We pair them with the right investors from a large, engaged global investor network, then our agents run the outreach and manage the relationships that turn into meetings. It is a two-sided platform, a product for founders and a living network on the investor side, not one-way matching. We are live with paying clients, profitable and self-funded, and we run as a small, senior, flat team that ships fast. The role You own our core: the two-sided matching engine that pairs founders with investors, and the agent layer that reasons over it. This is the most important surface in the product, and it is yours to build. What you will own The matcher: embeddings, ranking, scoring, and the feedback loop that makes matches sharper over time. The agents: prompt design, evals, retrieval, and tool use that t...