We’re looking for an experienced AI Engineer to join our mission at Shopper.com - where millions of users rely on our technology to save money, discover deals, and shop smarter every day. If you’re excited about applying AI to real-world problems in finance and shopping, we’d love to hear from you.
About Shopper.com
At Shopper.com, we are redefining how people save money while shopping online. Our platform helps creators and communities share the best deals, while our browser extensions and AI tools deliver personalized, real-time couponing experiences. We're backed by a passionate team, and we’re looking for an AI Engineer to help us take our products to the next level.
Why This Role Matters
This is a hands-on, high-ownership role. You'll work directly with the founding team to shape how we process, model, and deliver shopping intelligence through language models and structured data.
What You'll Do
- Design, fine-tune, and deploy GPT-based agents and tools to process, normalize, and explain messy data.
- Integrate with large language models (OpenAI, Claude, Mistral, etc.) to build conversational interfaces.
- Work with embeddings, vector search, retrieval augmentation, and few-shot prompts for precision.
- Optimize performance, latency, and cost tradeoffs for real-time query responses.
- Work across our AI infra and backend, including using tools like LangChain, LlamaIndex, Weaviate, or custom RAG pipelines.
- Collaborate on data labeling strategies, synthetic data generation, and evaluation loops.
- Influence the product roadmap with AI-first features and user interactions.
What We're Looking For
Strong experience with LLMs (GPT-4, Claude, etc.) and applied NLP / ML techniques.Hands-on experience with LangChain, OpenAI API, Pinecone / Weaviate, Hugging Face, or similar tools.Experience working with structured data (JSON, tabular), particularly in financial or tabular domains.Startup mindset : bias for action, ownership, and comfort with ambiguity.Bonus Points For
Built or contributed to a production AI / ML product.Background in fintech, accounting systems (QuickBooks / Xero), or business intelligence tools.Shipped AI features as a solo builder or in a 0→1 environment.How to Apply
Respond here on with your GitHub, resume, and 1–2 lines about what excites you about Shopper. We’re open to exploratory conversations too.