Job Description
About Empromptu
Empromptu exists at the intersection of infrastructure and intelligence. We don’t just build AI applications — we help enterprises transform their existing platforms into AI-native applications that think, adapt, and evolve. Our mission is to bring data, full observability, continuous learning, and reasoning capabilities into legacy products and systems.
We saw a problem in the market: most "AI app builders" are just website builders with a sprinkle of AI. At one end, you’ve got lightweight builders that fall apart in production. At the other, complex ML tools requiring full-time teams. We’re the missing middle, an actual AI application builder.
We built Empromptu for real-world deployment, not demos. With proprietary optimization technology, infinite memory, adaptive context engine, custom data models and more, our apps reach 98%+ accuracy in production. We’re a seed-stage startup, moving fast, building for scale, and led by seasoned founders from Nasa, Docker, Google and astrophysics-driven AI research.
The Impact You'll Make
You won’t just deliver a demo — you’ll be embedded with enterprise teams to turn ideas into production systems.
- Dive deep into customer platforms
- Understand their system topology, data sources, APIs, event flows, domain logic, and constraints.
- Design AI-native application modules
- Propose new or replacement subsystems that infuse reasoning, feedback loops, adaptation, agentic decision logic, or predictive behaviors.
- Integrate Empromptu’s core stack
- Embed model inference layers, pipelines, accuracy infrastructure, observability/telemetry, error handling, fallback logic, and feedback mechanisms.
- Build connectors and adaptors
- Connect to CRMs, databases, event streams, internal tools, third-party APIs, and legacy services. Handle schema mismatches, latency, and failure modes.
- Deliver pilots and proofs of concept
- Launch quick iterations, validate business metrics, refine, then expand to full-scale deployment.
- Ensure operational robustness
- Bring in monitoring, logging, metrics, alerting, fallback paths, and resilience into your systems so they’re production-grade.
- Enable and empower customer teams
- Document best practices, train engineering teams, set up observability dashboards, and hand off maintainable systems.
- Feedback loop into core product
- Surface patterns, common adapters, pain points, and abstractions back to Empromptu’s infrastructure and product teams, helping us build better primitives.
Must-have
- 5+ years of software engineering, systems/integration, or platform architecture experience
- Strong backend or full-stack development skills (Python, TypeScript/Node.js, Go, etc.)
- Deep experience with cloud platforms (AWS / GCP / Azure), containers, microservices, serverless, eventing systems
- Proficiency in API design, data pipelines, integration challenges, reliability engineering
- Exposure to ML/AI infrastructure (model serving, embeddings, inference, feedback loops) or proven ability to pick it up fast
- Excellent communication skills — you’ll be collaborating with both customer engineers and business stakeholders
- Comfort in ambiguous environments; you’ll make architectural decisions in evolving contexts
- *** PLEASE NOTE: Unfortunately we are NOT set up to do visa sponsorships. ***
Nice to have
- Experience with refactoring legacy systems, modularizing monoliths, or migrating existing products
- Background in observability, metrics, reliability engineering, or systems monitoring
- Experience working in regulated or enterprise domains (finance, healthcare, security)
- Worked in consulting, solutions / forward-deployed engineering roles
- Contributions to open-source infra, AI tooling, or shared libraries
Why Join Empromptu
- Real impact — You won’t be building internal tools; you’ll be launching systems that live in production at major enterprises.
- High visibility, high leverage — Like Empromptu's mission to provide full visibility to devs, you’ll deliver transparent, understandable AI systems that teams can trust and introspect.
- Learning velocity — You’ll touch infrastructure, AI, integrations, user domains, operations, and more.
- Remote-first & flexible — Work where you focus best, with a team spread across geographies.
- Compensation + equity — Competitive salary, equity upside, benefits, and perks.
- Freedom to shape technology — You’ll directly influence Empromptu’s architecture, abstractions, and roadmap based on field deployments.
Compensation & Benefits
- Salary: $100K–$130K USD (based on experience)
- Equity: Early-stage ownership
- Remote-first: Work from anywhere in the US
- Flexible PTO, strong health/dental/vision coverage
Inclusive Hiring
We believe diverse teams build better AI. We welcome applicants from all backgrounds and identities. Inclusive collaboration is a core value.
Our Application Process
- Initial conversation
- Application development - Paid for your time
- Final interview with CEO or CTO
We move fast. Most candidates complete the process within 4 weeks.
Apply Now
- If you're excited to build the future of AI applications, we'd love to meet you.