AI Systems & Core Experience Engineer
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Flodesk is building toward a future where small business owners do not need to be expert marketers to grow. Today, our AI helps members create and edit emails, but that is only the starting point. We are building a system that can understand a member’s business, brand, audience, and past performance, then help turn a goal into a complete marketing campaign across email, workflows, forms, sales pages, segmentation, scheduling, analytics, and recommendations.
Reporting to the Head of Product, AI Systems and Core Experience, you will shape how that system behaves and how we know it is good. You will own Flodesk’s prompts, agent instructions, quality definitions, evaluation criteria, and continuous-improvement loop by building the technical tooling, prototypes, and evaluation infrastructure that make this work measurable and scalable. This is not a role for writing clever prompts in isolation. It is hands-on systems work that connects engineering, product, and natural language. You will need to understand how context, models, tools, product state, and structured outputs come together to create a member experience, then identify the right layer to change when that experience fails.
What You’ll Do
- Manage member-facing AI behavior across prompt-to-create, agentic editing, and future jobs such as segmentation, scheduling, analytics, and recommendations.
- Create, test, version, and document prompts and agent instructions, with a clear record of what changed, why it changed, and how behavior improved.
- Define how the system should use context, member data, tools, and product state. Build and prototype the agent loops, tools, and structured interfaces needed to make those behaviors work.
- Own Flodesk’s AI evaluation practice, including representative datasets, behavioral scenarios, scoring rubrics, regression suites, and human review.
- Build and operate eval harnesses, monitoring, and quality dashboards so the team can measure quality without relying on one-off manual checks.
- Diagnose failures across prompts, context, orchestration, models, tools, data, and product code, then fix the right layer or partner with the engineer who owns it.
- Set quality baselines and release gates for prompt, model, and agent changes. Turn production failures, traces, and member feedback into durable regression cases.
- Partner with product, design, marketing, and copy experts to encode Flodesk’s point of view into the system, while bringing your own judgment about how the product should behave.
What You Bring
- A track record of building or meaningfully improving production LLM or agentic products, not just prototypes.
- Strong software engineering skills in Python, TypeScript, or a similar language that let you build reliable internal tools, evaluation systems, and prototypes.
- The interaction between prompts, context, tools, agent loops, orchestration, and product state is clear to you.
- LLM evaluation, observability, and experimental design are areas where you have direct experience, and you know how to combine automated checks with human judgment.
- A strong product sense that helps you translate ambiguous member feedback into testable quality definitions and concrete system changes.
- Systems thinking and reusable patterns guide your work, so today’s email experience gets better without building in assumptions that make tomorrow’s surfaces harder to build.
- Across technical and nontechnical disciplines, your communication is clear, and you can explain tradeoffs involving quality, latency, reliability, and cost.
Bonus points if you’ve:
- Built content-generation, creative, or marketing tools.
- Built multi-turn agents that use tools and preserve user intent across edits.
- Used Langfuse, Braintrust, or comparable evaluation and observability platforms.
- Worked on products for small businesses, creators, or marketers.
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Flodesk
View Company ProfileFlodesk (operating at flodesk.com) is a design-first email marketing and commerce platform engineered for small businesses. Founded in 2019 by Rebecca Shostak, Martha Bitar, and Trong Dong and headquartered in San Francisco, California, Flodesk simplifies the complexities of digital marketing by combining intuitive email tools with seamless ecommerce capabilities. Unlike traditional platforms that require separate tools for list growth, email campaigns, and product sales, Flodesk consolidates these functions into one cohesive system. Under the hood, the platform leverages clean, drag-and-drop design tools and robust deliverability features, ensuring emails reach inboxes with 17% higher visibility than industry averages. This allows entrepreneurs and small business owners to focus on crafting on-brand communications and driving sales without technical overhead. Backed by a bootstrapped model since inception, Flodesk prioritizes long-term trust over venture capital, empowering over 100,000 small businesses to scale efficiently.
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