AI Engineer – We’ve hired for this role!

About The Role

This isn’t your typical AI engineer gig. At Hatch, you’ll have the chance to define how AI works in our product, from prompt engineering and managing evals to integrating the best new models seamlessly into both the front-end and back-end of our platform. You’ll help us turn cutting-edge AI into tools that empower users and make their creative processes more fun, efficient, and impactful. If you love exploring the limits of what AI can do and want to be part of a team where your ideas truly matter, this role is for you.

About Hatch

At Hatch, we’re on a mission to redefine how creative processes are powered. We’re a small but mighty startup, using the latest advancements in AI to enhance creativity and help our users do their best work faster. We’re building tools that inspire and innovate, and we’re looking for an engineer to play a key role in shaping how AI integrates into our product. Let’s create something amazing together! ?

What You’ll Do

• Optimize prompt, system, tools, and API usage for speed, cost, and reliability
• Build robust LLM application infrastructure: agentic workflows, caching, and observability
• Work with product, design, and other engineers to deliver high-impact AI features quickly
• Build or contribute to eval frameworks to ensure AI output quality at scale

You Might Be a Fit If You…

• Have 5+ years of software engineering experience, including recent hands-on work with Generative AI (text and multimodal) 
• Are proficient in TypeScript and/or Go, and can navigate modern stacks
• Knowledge of major advancements in AI, including LLMs, Agent Systems, and related fields.
• Understand the performance and commercial characteristics of AI APIs (token costs, latency, retries, etc.)
• Care deeply about product reliability and developer velocity
• Have the ability to take a new problem and run with it. You know how to gather context and seek answers.
• Are excited by startups, even when the future is uncertain

Bonus If You’ve Worked With

• Prompt engineering and few-shot tuning for structured outputs
• Semantic caching or hybrid RAG systems
• Logging, monitoring, and alerting for AI pipelines
• Automated evals with both human and model feedback loops

How to Apply

Drop us your resume and a note about why you’re excited to join Hatch at joinus@hatchcanvas.com. Feel free to include links to projects, GitHub, or anything else that shows off your skills.

Our Hiring Process

Our interview process is a straightforward, behavioral interview about your past experiences, interviews with the founders and key staff, and meeting with our whole team. We value design and engineering excellence, product insight, eagerness for growth/impact, and the communication skills and empathy to collaborate well with a tight-knit team.

We value diversity. We are an equal opportunity employer: we do not discriminate on the basis of race, religion, color, national origin, gender, sexual orientation, age, marital status, veteran status, or disability status.

We will ensure that individuals with disabilities are provided reasonable accommodation to participate in the job application or interview process, perform essential job functions, and receive other benefits and privileges of employment.

Benefits

• Medical, dental, and vision insurance: 100% coverage for you, 60% coverage for all your dependents.
• Voluntary insurance: short-term disability, long-term disability, and life insurance.
• 401(k) plan 
• Take as much vacation as you like!
• Flexible parental leave