AI Engineer

 About daydream

daydream builds growth marketing playbooks for the world’s fastest growing companies.

Note: This role requires candidates to be in-person, in-office 5 days per week in our Hayes Valley, San Francisco office.

We believe the future of growth marketing is one where companies pay for outcomes, rather than tools. Today, we leverage a combination of AI-enabled services + software to execute SEO growth playbooks for companies like Clay, Descript, and Beacons and dozens of others. In the future, we'll expand our capabilities across the entire growth marketing stack, encompassing all essential customer acquisition channels.

We've raised $6.2M from leading investors like First Round Capital, Basis Set Ventures, WndrCo, SOMA Capital and current and former Heads of Growth at companies like Notion, Airtable, Webflow and Dropbox as well as notable angels like Lenny Rachitsky and Eli Schwartz, Author of Product-Led SEO.

🔧 The problem we’re trying to solve

Every company needs to do two things:

1. Build a product.

2. Acquire customers.

There are three ways to acquire customers — sales, product-led growth, and growth marketing. Of these three, growth marketing is particularly hard to staff for because great internal talent is find (ex. in SEO, there are probably < 20 people who we would consider world-class), and time-consuming to ramp.

Then there’s the agencies, but agencies are often slow, lack strong technical talent, and in general are associated with poor quality of outcomes.

🧑‍💻 How we’re solving this problem

daydream is different — we’ve built a vertically integrated software + services stack with a singular goal in mind — deliver outstanding outcomes for every customer we service, repeatedly and consistently in a fraction of the time they expect. While we’ve started with SEO, we expect to expand to all other major growth marketing channels over the near future.

🤝 The people you’ll be working with

• Shravan (CTO): Shravan was previously an Engineering Lead at Flixed. Before that, Shravan worked as a Software Engineer at Facebook for three years, where he worked on mass-scale web scraping for Facebooks’ Jobs product, and Meta Reality Labs.

• Vishruth (Founding Applied AI Engineer): Prior to joining Daydream, he worked as a Data Scientist at Klaviyo, specializing in NLP. Before that, he was at Cornell working on research projects with companies such as Home Depot and CVS Health.

• Tom (Founding Designer): Prior to joining daydream, Tom led the design of innovative products at Blockless, delivering refined user and developer experience in decentralized computing. Occasionally, Tom also does some UI engineering.

• Pedro (Founding Backend Engineer): Previously a Tech Lead at Relativity, Pedro developed distributed automated workflows using Azure, Logic Apps, Durable Functions, and Event-Driven Architecture. In his spare time, he dabbles in C++ and game development.

🥞 Our stack

• Python

• TypeScript (T3 based)

• C# (.NET 9)

• Postgres

• Google Cloud

• LLMs (GPT, Claude, Gemini)

👷🏻‍♀️ What You’ll Be Doing Here

As an AI Engineer at daydream, you'll be at the forefront of innovation, driving the development of new AI solutions that power our growth marketing strategies. You will

• lead projects from conception to deployment, encompassing scoping, research, development, and implementation of AI-driven solutions.

• architect, evaluate, and optimize complex LLM pipelines to achieve near perfect accuracy in real-world applications.

• collaborate closely with engineers, designers, and growth leads, to integrate AI capabilities into our products and services.

• rapidly build and iterate on prototypes with quality in mind.

✅ You’ll be an excellent fit if you

• are an expert at NLP, with more than just API-level experience. You have strong mental models of transformer-based architectures, embeddings, and the underlying mechanisms that drive modern language models.

• have a solid grounding in, and a interest in, probabilistic modeling, algorithms, experimental design, and statistical inference.

• are ready to stay adaptable in a startup environment, take on multiple roles, and step outside your comfort zone when needed.

• enjoy staying abreast of emerging AI trends and technologies.

• have an extremely high bar for quality and a keen eye for detail.

❌ This role won’t be a good fit if you

• are uncomfortable navigating new projects with minimal direction and embracing ambiguity.

• are looking for a narrowly scoped role.

• struggle to move fast and adapt in a rapidly evolving environment.

🏦 Compensation

The compensation for this role is $180k - $220K base salary with generous equity in daydream.

For applicants outside of the San Francisco Bay Area, we are offering paid relocation.