AI RAG engineer, Ruby on Rails | Earn equity at ZipChat
Who we are
- Pioneering AI-powered e-commerce with Zipchat.ai – your next-gen shopping assistant
- We're reimagining retail in the LLM era, working directly with hundreds of forward-thinking brands
- A bootstrapped, profitable team building Shopify/WhatsApp integrations while maintaining platform-agnostic flexibility
Who we need
- AI Architect
- Hands-on with LLMs (OpenAI, Anthropic) + RAG systems
- Vector DBs, embeddings, and prompt engineering mastery
- Full-Stack Builder
- Ruby on Rails core + Python utilities
- Web scraping & data pipeline expertise
- Self-Starter
- Fluent English communicator
- Owns problems end-to-end
- Thrives in ambiguity (shipping > perfection)
Your mission
- Continuously upgrade our AI agent's performance metrics
- Design and A/B test agent improvements
- Expand capabilities and optimize data infrastructure
- Turn merchant insights into shipping features
Why this rocks
- Equity in a scaling AI commerce play
- Extreme ownership – build how you want
- See immediate impact (daily deploys)
- No bureaucracy – just shipping
Reality check
- Async-first, heads-down team
- Outcomes matter more than hours
How we work
- Daily deploys – break things (then fix them)
- 3-person core – you'll pair with our tech founder
- Radical autonomy – remote, flexible, output-focused
- Pure engineering – zero meetings, just building
Deal terms
- $6k/month + equity (Delaware C-corp)
- Paid 2-week trial ($2k) before full offer
Next steps
- Apply
- Intro call
- Paid trial project
- Long-term if we click