# Visiting Engineer: Live Selling Copilot
**Company:** [AI Fund](https://hotfix.jobs/companies/ai-fund)
**Location:** Mountain View, CA
**Salary:** $30K-$30K
**Skills:** Full-Stack, Real-Time Systems, Generative AI, Retrieval, Tool Use, Guardrails, React, Node.js, WebSockets, Python
**Posted:** 2026-04-26
> Build a human-first AI copilot for live commerce sellers automating backstage operations like chat management, inventory control, and post-show workflows. Requires strong full-stack skills in real-time systems and GenAI products with retrieval and guardrails.
## Job Description
## What You'll Build
- A backstage producer cockpit that clusters chat, drafts or sends guardrailed replies, and surfaces the highest-value audience questions in real time.
- A listing and inventory control tower that helps hosts manage sequencing, pinned items, bundles, and oversell or stale-listing risk during the show.
- A real-time product research layer that answers unknown questions from seller notes, listing data, historical Q&A, and trusted category sources.
- Multilingual translation and localized reply support so hosts can engage cross-border audiences without losing flow.
- A lightweight post-show repurposing workflow that turns streams into reusable clips, Q&A moments, and listing assets.

## What You'll Do
- Build the end-to-end real-time system across chat ingestion, retrieval, guardrails, operator UX, listing controls, and post-show outputs.
- Work with one of our large LPs as your build/design partner to identify the right pilot category, host set, data path, and success metrics for the MVP.
- Design the automation ladder from draft support to host-controlled agentic replies without undermining authenticity or seller trust.
- Make decisions about latency, guardrails, disclosure, and escalation so higher-autonomy features are safe and useful.
- Work with AI Fund's build team on product wedge, technical risk, and the path from pilot to a broader live-commerce OS.

## What You Need
- Strong full-stack execution, especially on real-time systems, operator workflows, and AI-assisted products.
- Demonstrated experience building **GenAI** products with retrieval, tool use, guardrails, and production feedback loops.
- Product judgment for human-in-the-loop automation where the right answer is usually to remove busywork rather than replace the human outright.
- Ability to move quickly with external design partners and translate ambiguous feedback into working product decisions.
- You actively use AI coding assistants and modern **GenAI** tools as part of your build workflow.

## Helpful but Not Required
- Experience with live commerce, creator tools, marketplaces, video products, or seller operations.
- Experience with multilingual UX, moderation systems, or low-latency chat infrastructure.
- Founder or founding engineer experience.

## Compensation
**$10,000/month** for 12 weeks (**$30,000 total**). This is a contract role during the residency. If the build leads to a funded company, the next step is a founder-level role with meaningful equity upside.
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