Software Engineer, AI/ML GenAI

Remote Engineering / Full-time / Remote 👋Hello, we’re Instrumentl.We’re a mission-driven startup helping the nonprofit sector to drive impact, and we’re well on our way to becoming the #1 most-loved grant discovery and management tool. About us: Instrumentl is a hyper growth YC-backed startup with over 4,000 nonprofit clients, from local homeless shelters to larger organizations like the San Diego Zoo and the University of Alaska. We are building the future of fundraising automation, helping nonprofits to discover, track, and manage grants efficiently through our SaaS platform. Our charts are dramatically up-and-to-the-right 📈 — we’re cash flow positive and doubling year-over-year, with customers who love us (NPS is 65+ and Ellis PMF survey is 60+). Join us on this rocket ship to Mars! About the Role : As a Software Engineer, AI/ML GenAI at Instrumentl, you’ll own the full lifecycle of AI features—from rapid prototyping to production deployment and ongoing evaluation. You will build agentic LLM systems that can plan and use tools, implement RAG pipelines over our domain data, manage and evolve embeddings, and stand up evaluation/observability so our AI is grounded, safe, and cost‑effective. You’ll embed with one of the product pods in a hands-on role, collaborating closely with Product and Design, while partnering with DTI on platform‑level AI capabilities. The Instrumentl team is fully distributed (though if you’d like to work from our Oakland office, we would love to see you there). For this position, we are looking for someone who has overlap with Pacific Time Zone working hours.

What you will do

• Design agentic systems & ship AI to production: Build resilient, observable services, while optimizing cost and latency budgets. Build tool‑using LLM “agents” (task planning, function/tool calling, multi‑step workflows, guardrails) for tasks like grant discovery, application drafting, document parsing and many more.
• Own RAG end‑to‑end: Ingest and normalize content,...