# AI Technical Lead (Principal Engineer) at EverQuote

- Company: EverQuote
- What the company does: Backed by Link Ventures.
- Company website: https://everquote.com
- Type: Startups (AI role)
- Level: Principal and up
- Location: Cambridge, Massachusetts, United States
- Work setup: On-site
- Pay: $203K to $239K base salary per year (USD)
- Posted: 2026-09-15
- Apply by: 2026-11-02
- Apply: https://careers.everquote.com/job/?gh_jid=7986145003&utm_source=1752vc&utm_medium=careers
- Page: https://www.1752.vc/careers/jobs/everquote-ai-technical-lead-principal-engineer/

## About the role

As our Technical Lead, you will design and build a new kind of product: an insurance marketplace that AI agents use to shop on a person’s behalf. You will own the technical architecture end to end, from the models and how they run to the MCP server and tools that other AI platforms connect to. This is a hands-on senior role on a small team, and the decisions you make early will shape what agentic insurance shopping looks like before the market arrives. Found on 1752vc Careers, the job board for startup and VC roles.

## What they're looking for

- Deep, current, hands-on experience in the AI and LLM space. You work on this every day, not from the sidelines
- Real experience with open-weight models: you have fine-tuned them (LoRA, QLoRA, SFT, DPO, or similar) and run them yourself, not just called a hosted API
- Experience owning an LLM system in production: you have served models reliably, pinned versions, rolled back a bad change, and explained why the bill moved
- Enterprise-level design and architecture experience, with a track record of leading large, ambitious projects and delivering them
- Strong grasp of evaluation and guardrails: building eval sets, catching failure modes, and monitoring quality, drift, cost, and speed
- Fluency with the serving and ops stack: model serving, containers and orchestration, and monitoring, on at least one major cloud

Tags: Engineering

Source: 1752vc Careers, https://www.1752.vc/careers/jobs/everquote-ai-technical-lead-principal-engineer/