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AI Engineer


Workstream is a mission-driven company that believes in building premium, modern software solutions for hourly businesses. There are 2.7 billion hourly workers, who make up 80% of the global workforce, but they've been heavily underserved by technology and deserve better. We help local businesses around you hire, manage, and pay qualified workers.
Our customers include leading brands from multiple sectors, including Burger King, Carl's Jr./Hardee's, IHOP, KFC, and Culvers. At series B, we are quickly expanding our product portfolio. We are backed by legendary VCs and industry experts like Founders Fund, BOND, and Coatue.This is a rare opportunity for an ambitious AI engineer who wants to build real-world AI products. You will lead a team to build production-quality text/voice-based chatbots for the largest brands in the world. You will be the founding AI/algorithm engineer for the company.

You will also get opportunities to prove your leadership skills and to build your team when we grow.

Day in the Life


You will be responsible for building and improving our AI to drive business outcomes. In your day-to-day life, you will do two types of jobs:

  • Build AI Products from Scratch (0-1): 
  • Work with the Product Manager to understand customers’ pain points and create user stories for the chatbot
  • Quickly build prototypes/demos to get feedback from customers
  • Improve AI to drive Business outcome (1-100):
  • Work with software engineers etc to turn chatbot into a software product
  • Iteratively improve model/generation/retrieval/conversation quality by creating metrics, building data flywheel and creating benchmarks, training models, monitoring performances, etc.
  • Be the go-to person and bar-raiser for the domain of algorithm/AI/ML engineering

Who You Are


  • Strong problem solver
  • Expertise in
  • AI engineering, like LLM, closed-domain QA/dialogue system, RAG, Information retrieval, knowledge base, and other speech/text/NLP-related fields 
  • prototyping AI applications with hands-on muscles (0-1)
  • systematically tweaking a production system to perform better to business goals (1-100)
  • (preferred) In addition to expertise, have a proven track for the above expertise
  • Strong communication and project management skills, able to lead and collaborate with cross-functional roles in English and Chinese
  • Like the startup culture: scrappily resourceful and have strong ownership
  • Ideally based in Shanghai or Chengdu, CN 

What We Offer:


  • A mission-driven team dedicated to empowering deskless workers and local businesses
  • Join a Series B startup early, to learn fast 
  • Work with the founding team and industry veterans to accelerate your career
  • Competitive salary and equity
  • Comprehensive health coverage
  • Unlimited PTO
  • Remote/WFH schedule

Additional Information 


Workstream provides equal employment opportunities to all employees and applicants for employment and prohibits discrimination and harassment of any type without regard to race, color, religion, age, sex, national origin, disability status, genetics, protected veteran status, sexual orientation, gender identity or expression, or any other characteristic protected by federal, state or local laws. This policy applies to all terms and conditions of employment, including recruiting, hiring, placement, promotion, termination, layoff, recall, transfer, leaves of absence, compensation and training. We are committed to the full inclusion of all qualified individuals.

Life at Workstream

Workstream (www.workstream.us) is an automated hiring platform for companies employing hourly workers ? retail, restaurants, cafes, logistic companies, hospitality firms, and on-demand startups. We are more than a B2B applicant tracking software for companies. We cut in half the time that companies take to hire, on-board and train hourly workers via automation, mobile workflows and machine learning. Workstream is a simpler and smarter way to hire a fast-growing modern workforce. We are changing the way that companies hire today by solving the inefficiencies of a service economy that is characterized by unpredictable labor. We are a team from Harvard, MIT, Google, Y Combinator and WeChat, and backed by some of the top angel investors and venture capitalists. Based out of San Francisco Bay Area, we are rapidly growing and grew up in this industry ourselves and feel passionate about transforming this industry. The future of work is changing. People are switching jobs more frequently, more people are becoming independent contractors and many may work for several companies at once. Workstream will be the platform that will power the way the way this modern workforce are hired, screened, and trained.
Thrive Here & What We Value- Missiondriven and value-based company dedicated to empowering deskless workers and local businesses.- Early employee opportunity at a Series B hypergrowth startup with founding team and industry veterans.- Competitive salary and equity.- Comprehensive health coverage: medical, dental, vision.- Unlimited PTO.- Hybrid Office/WFH schedule.- Equal employment opportunities with antidiscrimination policy.- Remote/WFH schedule with direct bank payments.- Learning/development stipend.- Career fast track, internal mobility, Grow With Us program for performers.- Positive employee experiences and passionate work environment.

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