# Senior AI Engineer at Elayne

- Company: Elayne (YC S24)
- What the company does: Estate settlement, from verified discovery to distribution. Backed by Y Combinator.
- Company website: https://www.elayne.com/
- Type: Startups (AI role)
- Level: Senior
- Location: New York, NY, US
- Work setup: On-site
- Pay: $250K to $300K base salary per year (USD)
- Posted: 2026-09-11
- Apply by: 2026-10-26
- Apply: https://www.ycombinator.com/companies/elayne/jobs/7AXa0LL-senior-ai-engineer
- Page: https://www.1752.vc/careers/jobs/elayne-senior-ai-engineer/

## About the role

We’re looking for a Senior AI Engineer to build the intelligence layer behind Elayne. Estate settlement is an unusually hard AI problem. The truth about an estate is scattered across wills, tax records, deeds, bank statements, court filings, credit data, government databases, and documents that frequently disagree with each other. We need systems that can understand all of it, connect what belongs together, know when they might be wrong, and show exactly where every answer came from.

## What they're looking for

- You’ve built and operated AI systems in production. You’ve owned document intelligence, extraction, agents, retrieval, or other model-driven systems end to end, including evaluation and reliability
- You know reliability is the hard part. You can talk concretely about evals, regressions, hallucinations, provenance, human escalation, cost blowups, latency, and what broke after you shipped
- You’re an engineer first. You’re exceptional in Python and can architect the pipelines, data systems, APIs, and infrastructure around the models without waiting for another team
- You want the messy problems. Ambiguous documents, conflicting sources, entity resolution, imperfect models, and systems where the ground truth itself can be difficult to establish are interesting to you
- You want ownership, not a research sandbox. You move quickly, care about what reaches production, have strong opinions without needing to win the argument, and want to be accountable for whether the system actually works

Tags: Engineering