AI Engineer

Position Summary

We're looking for an exceptional AI Engineer to be a force multiplier for the Strategy org and a major contributor to Walden’s internal agent platform. This is a hybrid role for an AI-native operator who builds modern agentic systems with extreme ownership and equal comfort across the technical and the commercial.

You'll split your time roughly 80% on strategy-org workflows (deal sourcing and qualification, GTM automation and CRM Ops, market intelligence, due diligence, context management) and 20% on the shared internal agent infrastructure, working alongside our systems engineers to make every Walden operator agent-augmented.

You'll close the feedback loop on agents you own, design self-improvement loops, and make your work reusable across the company.

Core Responsibilities

CSO direct collaboration: Serve as the CSO's thought partner on agentic systems for strategic initiatives, prototype analytical frameworks fast, and execute special projects spanning GTM, partnerships, fundraising, modeling, and customer-data strategy.

CSO vertical agents (~80%): Design and ship AI agents and pipelines for market mapping, segmentation, customer discovery, deal-flow management, contract triage, executive comms, market intelligence, and CRM automation. Use a stack combining Anthropic, OpenAI, custom LLM pipelines, internal and external data sources, and modern CRM integrations. Build the single source of truth that powers strategic KPIs and executive decisions.

• Internal agent platform (~20%): Co-develop the shared infrastructure that lets other Walden teams build and run their own agents safely and observably. Ship reusable patterns and primitives the rest of the company adopts.
• Cross-functional integration: Bridge strategy, finance, product, engineering, and operations through direct collaboration, real-time dashboards, scenario planning, and workflow automation. Translate technical reality into commercial framing and back.

Required Qualifications

• CS or Engineering undergraduate degree.
• Track record owning ambitious AI-native projects end-to-end at a frontier startup or research lab, with the ability to operate without close supervision under uncertainty.
• Demonstrated expertise building production agentic workflows with modern AI tools (Claude Code, Codex, Cursor, OpenAI / Anthropic Agents SDK, open source tools).
• Experience in Python, data engineering, API integrations, and workflow automation.
• Experience with LLM evals, observability, and optimization (Langfuse, Weights & Biases).
• Comfortable context-switching between technical implementation and strategic thinking, and between writing code and writing prompts.

Preferred Qualifications

• Domain knowledge in robotics, autonomous vehicles, enterprise AI, or similar markets.
• Track record building 0 to 1 analytical tools that drove important business decisions.
• Experience in venture capital, corporate development, or strategic consulting.

Pay and benefits

Walden Robotics offers a competitive total compensation program, including salary, annual cash bonus, company equity, company-subsidized insurance programs, 401(k) with company match, flexible PTO, daily lunch, and other benefits. The pay ranges noted on our posts are for salary only.

• About Company ---

At Walden Robotics, we envision a world where general-purpose robots dramatically improve the quality of life for all people—supporting us at home, at work, in factories, on farms, and beyond. To accomplish this, we are building a team of exceptional professionals who combine world-class technical skills with creative vision, grounded in humility and collaboration.