Portless
AI Engineer | Remote (North America)
hn · Remote (North America) · $180k-$230k
Jose is a founding engineer with 12+ years of shipping systems and extensive production AI experience, including LLM agents, multi-channel orchestration, and building infrastructure for others (data platforms, ML pipelines, developer tools). He brings strong Python/TypeScript, has shipped multiple agentic workflows in production (LangGraph counseling agent, SQL-to-insights systems, ad generation), and has proven infrastructure-building chops. The main gap is direct e-commerce/3PL domain experience, though his work scaling systems and building for operational workflows translates well.
Hook: You've built production LLM agents at scale and infrastructure for teams to self-serve—exactly what Portless needs to move from manual ops to agentic workflows.
Missing: direct e-commerce or 3PL logistics domain experience, vector database/RAG systems (implied but not explicitly demonstrated), heavy Cursor/Claude Code/Copilot usage experience
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Portless | AI Engineer | Remote (North America) | $180k-$230k | Full-time We're a company doing real operational work in e-commerce/3PL logistics. AI usage internally is still basic — decks, spreadsheets, a few people vibe-coding dashboards. No real agentic workflows in production yet. That's what this role is for. You'd be the first dedicated AI engineer here. Two things at once: ship agentic workflows that replace real manual work, and build the underlying platform (APIs, MCP tools, docs) so other teams can build their own instead of asking you for everything forever. First project: an agent that reads an inbound invoice question, pulls the correct (often complex) invoice, and drafts a context-aware reply a teammate can review and send. Currently ~1 hour of manual work, target is ~30 seconds. What we need: 3+ years SWE, 1-2+ of which building production AI systems (not prototypes) 10+ agentic/LLM workflows shipped end-to-end — not toy demos Evidence you've built infra/tools for other people to use, not just yourself Strong Python and/or TypeScript Some background in e-commerce, 3PL, logistics, or comparable B2B ops Nice to have: RAG, vector DBs, multi-step orchestration, eval frameworks, heavy Cursor/Claude Code/Copilot usage. Fully remote, direct access to leadership, real scope to define how AI gets built here rather than inheriting someone else's stack. Full JD + Apply: https://uctalent.io/referral/Huynh_Nhu_Bao_Nhan221138/DNwhgwstew8NptdHHFkpK?utm_source=headhunter&utm_medium=referral