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Founding AI engineer at nao Labs

nao Labs
Idaho, US
Full-time
$102K–$118K
Estimated
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Required Skills

React
Python
SQL

Job Description

At nao Labs, we are reimagining how data work gets done. Data work is different from traditional software development, and it deserves a specialised workflow. That’s why we’re creating nao—an AI-powered code editor tailored for data workers.

We're looking for a Founding AI Engineer to join nao Labs and help define the future of data work.

You should have deep experience across the generative AI stack—from model training, fine-tuning, and evaluation to advanced techniques like pre-prompting, RL for Fill-in-the-Middle (FIM), code generation, and task-specific adaptation.

You will:

  • Lead AI development at nao Labs

  • Train, fine-tune, and evaluate models for data engineering, analytics and science related tasks

  • Apply RL and other techniques for next-gen FIM and codegen systems

  • Build internal tooling for efficient experimentation and deployment You are:

  • An expert in LLMs, transformers, RLHF, and code models

  • Hands-on with training pipelines, distributed training, and evaluation metrics

  • Entrepreneurial — ready to build, ship, and iterate fast nao is a fork of VS Code, which means NodeJS and Typescript.

We also use React for webviews. Python/Django and NodeJS for our backend APIs. A lot of LLMs to power our product.

The biggest challenges are:

  • Navigating VS Code codebase to build a lovable product for data people
  • Understand SQL and Python codebase to provide syntaxic trees
  • Build low-latency AI Tab features and agentic workflows
  • Async screening through a list of technical and non-technical questions
  • 30’ phone call to asses motivation and profile matching
  • 1h30 technical pair-programming session to evaluate technical level with CTO and a member of the technical team
  • 30’ with the CEO

Job Details

Employment Type

Full-time

Salary Range

$102K–$118K

Estimated

Location

Idaho, US