Applied AI Engineer

Hey, I’m Teddy, CTO & co-founder at Magic Patterns! Our engineering team has grown a lot over the last few months here in San Francisco.

About Magic Patterns

Our mission is to let anyone build delightful software. We're a lean team where everyone contributes directly to the product.

If you’re an AI engineer, our roadmap is probably a goldmine of things you’ve always wanted to work on:

• An AI agent that thousands of users use religiously everyday
• Evals with a self-improving agent loop
• Context engineering
• Post-training on design output

The most common piece of feedback we get is "I tried a bunch of tools but your design quality output is by far the best." We want to push the limits even further.

About this role

• Own our eval system that feeds into our self-improving agent loop
• Push and define the limits of what AI can do in design. Today, we are state of the art, and we want to continue to push that.
• Collaborate with the product team to bring novel solutions to improve agent quality from the perspective of our users
• Decide what to work on to improve our AI Design agent. The list above are open problems, not assignments

This role might be a fit if you...

• Use AI tools in your daily workflow
• Have experience with AI models and/or have worked on an AI agent before
• Have experience building eval systems, post-training, context engineering
• Strong first-principles thinker that can distill complex problems

Our Values

• Obsessive — we love exploring every corner of the hardest problems.
• Growth-minded — where you are today matters less than how fast you are growing
• Ownership — insist on high standards and craftsmanship.
• Spread the magic — for many people, Magic Patterns is “magic.” Be proud of your work and have fun!

Compensation and benefits

• Rapid career growth at one of the fastest growing Series A companies
• Competitive salary and equity package
• 20 days off PTO
• Health, dental, and vision coverage
• Fun team offsites and events — we went to Mexico last year!