About the Role
As our AI Alchemist, you will be the primary force multiplier for our CEO and the founding team. This role is for an operator who is fundamentally a builder, taking critical priorities from idea to execution at lightning speed by building with AI. It's a high-visibility, high-impact role for a hacker-operator wanting to see how a venture-backed AI startup operates internally, acting as a surrogate for the CEO in technical and strategic initiatives, leading engineering projects, building new AI agents, and pushing the boundaries of LLMs.
Responsibilities
- Rapidly prototype and incubate new ideas, owning the zero-to-one phase of new agentic workflows, detection models, or internal tools.
- Drive executive meetings, board preparations, and investor pitches with working code and prototypes.
- Identify and solve operational challenges using AI, building and deploying internal agents and scripts to increase team efficiency.
- Ensure alignment between Product, Engineering, and GTM teams, translating technical breakthroughs into shipped features.
- Stay current with AI trends and rapidly test integration possibilities into the Aegis platform.
Requirements
- Comfortable working with Python, LLM APIs (OpenAI, Anthropic, open-source), frameworks like LangChain/LlamaIndex, and modern deployment stacks (Vercel, Next.js).
- Proven ability to act as a fixer, creating playbooks and automating processes.
- Ability to pitch to investors, run strategy meetings, and debug autonomous agents.
- Experience in fast-paced, founder-led environments.
- Ability to write scalable code and create quick solutions to prove points.
- Ability to communicate effectively with engineers on architecture and with business stakeholders on strategy.
Skills
- AI
- Python
- LLM APIs
- LangChain
- LlamaIndex
- Vercel
- Next.js
- Prototyping
- Executive Communication
- Technical Strategy
- AI Agent Development
- Prompt Engineering
- Debugging
Location
- Remote
Work Type
- Full-time
Experience Level
- 3-6+ Years of Experience
About the Company
- Aegis AI is building the next generation of email security powered by AI agents that think and act like human analysts.
- Our mission is to keep users safe by stopping Phishing and Spam attacks before they reach employees.
- Our agents use hundreds of specialized models that collaborate autonomously across inboxes.
- The team was founded by Google security leaders who built Gmail and Chrome Security.
- Backed by Accel and Foundation Capital, we're transforming how enterprises protect their people from modern social engineering threats.
