Founding AI Engineer — Agent Runtime ($100k-$150k + Equity) at Pareto Agent

Join Pareto Agent as the first engineering hire to build the execution layer for autonomous B2B sales agents. You will architect a deterministic, policy-driven runtime that governs agent actions in real-world negotiations. This is a founding role at a $3.5M-funded startup, offering significant equity and influence on technical architecture.

• Design and own the multi-stage agent pipeline, including intent classification, context assembly, and reasoning loops to enable reliable autonomous decision-making.
• Build a robust event-driven runtime and evaluation framework to enforce commercial policies and catch regressions before they impact customers.
• Architect sophisticated context management systems that determine how to retrieve, compress, and utilize data as agent complexity scales across various industries.

• Proven experience building production-grade LLM systems where reliability was mission-critical, moving beyond 'it usually works' to deterministic outcomes.
• Strong systems thinking with professional proficiency in typed languages such as TypeScript, Go, or Rust for building scalable, type-safe infrastructure.
• Self-directed engineer comfortable in early-stage environments who can diagnose whether failures stem from prompts, system design, or LLM limitations.