Founding AI Engineer
Guided Energy
Software Engineering, Data Science
Paris, France
Posted on Mar 12, 2026
Founding AI Engineer
Contract type
Permanent
Freelance
Location
Paris (in-person)
Open
At Guided, we build real-time agents that keep the wheels of the transportation industry spinning. Our AI works across voice, text and legacy systems to handle all the messy manual touch points needed to move anything from anywhere to anywhere.
We’re backed by Sequoia, growing fast and working with leading transport companies. To keep pace with customer demand, we’re hiring an AI Engineer to own the full lifecycle of our agent workflows — from prototype to production, evals to reliability at scale.
This isn’t research. It’s applied AI with feedback loops measured in minutes, not weeks.
The role
Your mission is to bridge user needs with the latest AI advancements, building production-grade agents that enhance operational workflows in logistics
Own and evolve our LLM pipeline: from prompt design, grounding, evals, and testing to live performance in production.
Build tools to scale agent behaviour across our customer use cases, enabling us to fine tune LLMs at scale
Improve agent reliability through better fallback design, error handling, and feedback loops
Architect the product from user experience to technical architecture
Ensure agents behave consistently across user segments, languages and customer-specific workflows
You will be a good fit if you …
Have a passion for the latest in AI: building and deploying LLM-based systems at work or in your free time
Have familiarity with our tech stack: Node JS, Typescript, Python
Are obsessive about product, often working nights and weekends in the pursuit of building something great
Enjoy being a generalist, willing to work on everything from testing models to managing our cloud infrastructure to writing user guides to ...
Biased to action and understand that we need to move fast, experiment and iterate as we go
You will not be a good fit if you …
Need highly scoped tickets to get started
Optimise for technical purity over real-world outcomes
Dislike user discovery, being onsite and learning from customers
Prefer remote work: as an early stage startup, we believe in person collaboration is key
Why Guided?
Real-world impact: Our agents interact with drivers, brokers, and dispatchers daily — this is not a research sandbox.
High Ownership: You will own a large surface of the product, build independently and be responsible for decisions from design to implementation
Fast shipping culture: we talk about outcomes in hours and days not weeks and months
Opportunity to bring cutting edge AI to an industry and geography forgotten by Silicon Valley
Interviewing at Guided
We strive to finish the process in 2-3 weeks from first call to offer.
Intro chat with CEO (culture & mission fit)
Take home technical test
Technical interview with CTO
Engineering onsite and a meal with the team
Interested?
Email anant@guided.energy to learn more.