--- title: Founding Applied AI Engineer at DOSS description: DOSS is hiring for the Founding Applied AI Engineer role in San Francisco, CA. Pays $230K–$260K per year. See the full description and apply. type: job url: https://www.foundrole.com/jobs/founding-applied-ai-engineer-at-doss-01a0b0d6-08c4-70a9-a153-2fb5f13e9abd date: 2026-11-15T01:26:44Z og_description: Join DOSS as Founding Applied AI Engineer in San Francisco, CA. Pays $230K–$260K per year. Full-time, on-site role. og_image: https://www.foundrole.com/og/ldljuy.png breadcrumbs: - label: Home url: https://www.foundrole.com/ - label: Search url: https://www.foundrole.com/jobs --- | | | |---|---| | **Company** | DOSS | | **Location** | San Francisco, CA | | **Salary** | $230K/yr - $260K/yr | | **Type** | Full Time | | **Posted** | Oct 27, 2026 | ## Is this job real? **Ghost job check:** A- · Low risk. Probably a real opening. ## Visa sponsorship - **H-1B:** DOSS sponsors H-1B visas. It filed 16 H-1B petitions (FY2026 Q1 – FY2026 Q4). - **E-Verify:** No E-Verify enrollment on record for DOSS. ## Pay for similar jobs Most similar jobs pay $194,000 – $260,000 a year (median $225,000). ## Description **ABOUT DOSS** DOSS is building the AI Operations Cloud for the real world. Our platform helps physical product businesses manage the flow of goods, dollars, and data in real time across procurement, inventory, orders, fulfillment, and finance. We built it to replace spreadsheet chaos and rigid, consultant-heavy ERPs, so our customers get fast time-to-value and a system that adapts as their business evolves. Our Adaptive Resource Platform (ARP) and unified operational data model let teams deploy quickly, automate workflows, and make changes without months of re-implementation. DOSS has raised $73M from investors including Madrona, Premji Invest, Theory Ventures, General Catalyst, Intuit Ventures, Contrary Capital, and Pathlight VC. Fast-growing operators trust DOSS to run critical operations with speed, control, and confidence. About the role: Every ERP claims to be "AI-powered." Almost none of them let an operator ask a question in plain language and get an answer grounded in their live procurement, inventory, and finance data, let alone let an agent safely take action on it. That's the goal of this job: you'll own applied AI across Doss: Dossbot (query, analyze, and automate via chat), AI-assisted schema and workflow generation, and the agentic automations that turn back-office busywork into background processes. You'll be the technical anchor for how foundation models meet a transactional system of record. What you’ll do: - Own the applied AI architecture end-to-end: model selection, orchestration, RAG over the unified operational data model, evals, guardrails, and cost/latency budgets in production. - Build Dossbot into the primary interface for operations: natural-language search, analysis, and automation grounded in live supply-chain, finance, and ops data. - Engineer AI-assisted tooling that uses foundation models to propose, validate, and apply customer schemas and workflow definitions on live production tenants. - Design agentic workflows that act inside enterprise guardrails: permission-aware, auditable, tenant-isolated, and safe to run against a customer's system of record. - Stand up the eval and observability infrastructure to measure quality, catch regressions, and proactively detect anomalous or risky emergent behavior. - Partner with product, design, and our Forward Deployed team to deliver on their highest-leverage AI use cases. - Mentor and shape engineering culture as the team's center of gravity for applied AI, raising the bar on how we build, evaluate, and ship LLM-powered systems. What we’re looking for: **Experience** - Shipped LLM-powered features or agents to production and operated them at scale, not just prototypes or demos. - Deep hands-on work with foundation model APIs, RAG pipelines, tool use/function calling, prompt and context engineering, and fine-tuning where it earns its keep. - Built eval harnesses and guardrails for non-deterministic systems running against business-critical data. - Strong backend fundamentals: Designing systems, Postgres, and cloud services for reliable, multi-tenant web applications. - Going from 0 to 1 in ambiguous settings, and judgment for when AI is the right tool and when it isn't. **Qualities** - Team player: you bring positivity, openness, and curiosity to the team every day. - Growth mindset: everything is an opportunity to learn and improve yourself, the team, and the company. - Craftsmanship: you care about making something of quality. - Customer First: you care immensely about the customer experience journey and want to create a product full of delight. - Pragmatic: you make the right decision based on circumstance, not theory. - Low Ego: you work best in collaborative environments where everyone supports the team. ## Skills - Cloud Computing - Event Production - Function Calling (Llm Tool Use) - Teamwork - Foundation Models - Machine Learning Model Fine-Tuning - Forward Deployed Engineering - Observability - Automation - Artificial Intelligence - Applied AI - PostgreSQL - Retrieval-Augmented Generation (Rag) - Climbing Equipment - LLM Evals - Supply Chain - Large Language Models (Llm) - Tool Calling - Context Engineering - Data Modeling - Agentic Workflows - Multi-Tenant Architecture - Growth Mindset - Customer Experience - Budgeting ## Related - [Data & Analytics jobs](https://www.foundrole.com/careers/data-and-analytics?utm_source=ai_markdown)- [Machine Learning & AI jobs](https://www.foundrole.com/careers/data-and-analytics/machine-learning-and-ai?utm_source=ai_markdown)- [Artificial Intelligence Engineer jobs](https://www.foundrole.com/careers/data-and-analytics/machine-learning-and-ai/artificial-intelligence-engineer?utm_source=ai_markdown)- [Browse all companies](https://www.foundrole.com/companies?utm_source=ai_markdown) ## Explore this job market - [California](https://www.foundrole.com/locations/us/california?utm_source=ai_markdown) — 260759 jobs - [Software Products](https://www.foundrole.com/sectors/technology/software-products?utm_source=ai_markdown) — 118918 jobs - [San Francisco, CA](https://www.foundrole.com/locations/us/california/san-francisco?utm_source=ai_markdown) — 27903 jobs ## Related pages - [California](https://www.foundrole.com/locations/us/california?utm_source=ai_markdown) — 260759 jobs - [Software Products](https://www.foundrole.com/sectors/technology/software-products?utm_source=ai_markdown) — 118918 jobs - [San Francisco, CA](https://www.foundrole.com/locations/us/california/san-francisco?utm_source=ai_markdown) — 27903 jobs ## Browse - [Companies](https://www.foundrole.com/companies?utm_source=ai_markdown) - [Jobs by country](https://www.foundrole.com/locations?utm_source=ai_markdown) - [Jobs in the United States by state and city](https://www.foundrole.com/locations/us?utm_source=ai_markdown) - [H1B sponsors by location](https://www.foundrole.com/h1b-sponsors?utm_source=ai_markdown) - [H1B salaries](https://www.foundrole.com/h1b-salaries?utm_source=ai_markdown) - [Sectors and industries](https://www.foundrole.com/sectors?utm_source=ai_markdown) - [Jobs by career field](https://www.foundrole.com/careers?utm_source=ai_markdown) - [Latest jobs](https://www.foundrole.com/jobs/latest?utm_source=ai_markdown)