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RealHires · Full-time · Fully Remote
Own the intelligence layer of a global talent marketplace — the AI that decides which candidates make the cut.
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About RealHires
RealHires places pre-vetted remote professionals from 40+ countries with established U.S. businesses. We're now building AI into the core of how candidates get evaluated — and we're hiring one person to own that system end to end.
What you'll own
Architect and run our AI pre-vetting engine — the prompts, scoring logic, and pipelines that evaluate candidates at scale
Design production-grade prompts with structured outputs, and keep them accurate, consistent, and cheap to run
Build the evaluation layer — test sets, QA loops, and metrics that prove the AI's judgments hold up
Make the architecture calls — models, APIs, build-vs-buy — across text, audio, and video data
Ship with a small team — you work directly with the founder and our developer, no layers in between
Set the AI direction as we grow: what we automate next, and what stays human
What you're walking into
A bootstrapped company with real revenue and real candidates flowing through the product today. The AI screening system exists and works — your job is to make it excellent, reliable, and ready for 10x the volume.
You'll report directly to the founder: a fast-moving, idea-a-minute operator. Part of this job is turning that speed into systems that don't break — and saying "no, here's a better way" when it counts.
Must-haves
You've shipped LLM systems used in production by real users — not demos, not notebooks
Deep prompt engineering skill: structured outputs, failure handling, model selection
You've built evals — you can prove your AI works, not just claim it
You own architecture end to end: APIs, data flow, cost, latency
You communicate clearly with non-technical people
Rough goal in, shipped system out — you don't need a roadmap handed to you
Nice-to-haves
Speech-to-text or video analysis pipeline experience
Recruiting, HR-tech, or marketplace background
Experience leading or mentoring other engineers
Logistics
Full-time, fully remote — from anywhere
At least 4 hours of daily overlap with U.S. Eastern time
Comp: competitive for your region — state your expectations when you apply
Reports to: Founder & CEO