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Lead AI Engineer, AI Engineer, and Platform Manager at Catalyst·Wayfare AI

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Catalyst·Wayfare AI | Lead AI Engineer + Agent Builder + Platform Engineer

Location: Remote (US)
Type: Full-time / Part-time / Contract
Source: Hacker News

About Catalyst·Wayfare AI

We are an AI transformation firm shipping production AI systems for mid-market enterprises in regulated and technical domains—including finance, energy, industrials, and healthcare. We do not stop at PowerPoint AI strategy; we ship working systems alongside our clients' engineering teams. We offer small teams, deep expertise, and real autonomy on real work.

Open Positions

1. Lead AI Engineer, Agentic Systems

  • Role: Embedded technical lead on a multi-agent orchestration build for one of the country's leading power engineering firms. Architect the engine and design the patterns we replicate at the next client.
  • Requirements:
    • 6+ years of engineering experience.
    • 2+ years shipping LLM/agentic systems in production.
    • Strong Python skills and opinions on agent frameworks.
    • Ability to travel monthly to one major US metro.
  • Apply: View Full JD

2. AI Engineer, Agent Builder

  • Role: Hands-on builder embedded on the same engagement. End-to-end ownership of individual capability agents, including prompts, tools, retrieval, evals, and monitoring.
  • Requirements:
    • 3–5 years of strong Python experience.
    • Real production LLM API experience.
    • Shipped at least one agent system end-to-end.
    • 1099 contract, ~30–40 hrs/wk.
    • Occasional US travel.
  • Apply: View Full JD

3. Platform Manager (Engineering), Trust.ML

  • Role: Founding platform engineer on our productized governance, evaluation, and deployment surface. Own the roadmap, write the code, and set the operational posture (SLOs, on-call, audit).
  • Requirements:
    • 5+ years of experience.
    • Prior engineer-in-charge experience.
    • Quarterly US travel.
  • Compensation: Competitive with senior platform roles at venture-funded AI infrastructure companies; equity reflects the founding nature of the seat.
  • Apply: View Full JD

Our Tech Stack

  • Models: Claude, OpenAI, Gemini, and Perplexity APIs in production; open-source models when the math points there.
  • Tools: Cursor and Claude Code daily.
  • Infrastructure: Vercel, Neon, Sentry.
  • Philosophy: Evals as first-class artifacts.

How to Apply

Please follow the instructions provided in each specific job description. Send applications to talent+hn@cwai.co.

Note: A short cover note matters more to us than a resume.

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