# Senior Software Engineer-Founding Engineer (Ayama)

**Company:** [AI Fund](https://hotfix.jobs/companies/ai-fund)
**Location:** San Francisco, CA
**Role:** Fullstack Engineering
**Experience:** 5+ years
**Skills:** Python, Django, FastAPI, React, TypeScript, RAG, LLMs, GCP, dbt, Airflow
**Posted:** 2026-04-21

> Senior full-stack engineer builds RAG/LLM systems, data pipelines, and optimization tools for AI-driven asset management in energy. Requires 5+ years experience with Python/Django/FastAPI, React/TypeScript, and production AI systems.

## Job Description

## Responsibilities
- Build and improve production RAG and LLM-based systems
- Design and maintain data pipelines that integrate enterprise data sources at scale
- Develop full-stack product features end-to-end, from Python backend through React/TypeScript frontend
- Work on optimization and scheduling problems with real operational constraints
- Build evaluation frameworks that measure whether AI systems are actually improving

## Requirements
- 5+ years of hands-on software engineering experience
- Full-stack depth in **Python** (Django/FastAPI) and modern **React/TypeScript**
- Production experience building RAG and LLM-based systems, not prototypes
- Strong architectural judgment
- Comfort with large-scale data processing and cloud infrastructure (**GCP** preferred)
- Fluency with AI-assisted development tools

## Nice To Haves
- Experience with ERP systems, especially **SAP** (maintenance workflows, master data, integrations)
- Operations research or constraint programming background
- Data transformation and orchestration tools (**dbt**, **Prefect**, **Airflow**)

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