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Letter AI (YC S23)
Letter AI (YC S23)
Founding Engineer - Full Stack
Full-time
On-site
$90k - $200k
About this role

We are looking for a full-stack engineer to join our team as one of our first engineering hires. You will play a pivotal role in shaping the company, our culture, and our platform. You will fully own critical customer features powered by the latest advances in generative AI.

in full-stack software development
Salary
$90k - $200k
Equity
0.5-1.5
Visa sponsorship not available
On-site work policy
In-person in Chicago or San Francisco
Full-time position
Tech stack
Python, React, Redux, Typescript, LLM, Terraform, AWS
About Letter AI (YC S23)

At Letter AI, we are revolutionizing the way sales enablement is done. Our generative AI powered platform enables sales teams to build and maintain all the content their sales reps need to close deals, 10x faster and with half the operational overhead. For the first time ever, sales teams can use a unified platform to train and coach their reps, empower them with personalized and interactive content to engage customers, and improve their win rates.


Within just a few weeks of launching, we’ve onboarded leading companies like Lenovo and Redpanda as our first customers and received funding from the world’s best venture capital firms, including Y Combinator and Pioneer Fund.

Team size

5 people

Industry

AI

Founded

2023

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Company locations

Chicago +1
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The team
About the team

Ali Akhtar


Founder & CEO of Letter AI. A decade of experience in AI across various roles - as VP of ML Products at project44, ML Engineering Director at Samsara, and AI-focused consultant at McKinsey. Reach out to talk AI, enterprise SaaS, sales enablement, or anything else!


Armen Forget


Co-Founder of Letter AI, software engineer, architect and leader. I started my career in military/aerospace and moved to distributed backends and ML Operations. Currently obsessed with the endless possibilities of generative AI and helping our enterprise customers leverage this technology with minimal friction.


How We Operate

At Letter AI, we want you to be unapologetically you while operating with our core principles in mind:


  • Customer-obsessed: Make your customers unreasonably happy and everything else will fall into place

  • Ambitious yet practical: Set big goals, but stay grounded with disciplined execution and ruthless prioritization

  • Direct yet kind: Never hold back from speaking your mind, but do so in a way that is kind to your colleagues

  • Driven yet humble: Push for excellence and deliver fast, but keep your humility

Role responsibilities
Develop high-performance, responsive customer features in Python, React, Redux, and Typescript
Implement LLM-powered features across multiple modalities: text, image, video, audio
Collaborate closely with the backend team to ensure smooth integration and contribute to architectural decisions
Understand customers needs and use that knowledge to improve the user experience.
Tech stack
Python, React, Redux, Typescript, LLM, Terraform, AWS