AEO/GEO for E-Commerce and Retail. Backed by Y Combinator.
About the role
We’re looking for a Founding Applied ML Engineer to help shape both the product and the company from the earliest stage. This is engineer number one. You are not joining an engineering team. You are helping build one.
What they're looking for
- Has prior founding experience, or was early at a Seed, Series A, Series B, or similarly fast-moving company
- Has strong full-stack experience and can ship independently across the stack
- Has applied ML or data science experience, especially with LLMs, ranking, retrieval, evals, attribution, experimentation, or product intelligence
- Can move between modeling, analysis, implementation, and product decisions
- Is high-agency, self-directed, and able to turn ambiguity into shipped product
- Is expert-level with AI coding tools and uses them to move significantly faster
More about this role
Wildcard is the agentic commerce optimization platform for ecommerce and retail brands.
We help brands understand, improve, and monetize how their products show up across AI shopping agents. We’re building the mission control for agentic commerce : visibility (AEO & GEO), recommendations, execution, attribution, and automation in one platform.
As shopping shifts from traditional search to AI agents, brands need to know where they appear, why competitors are winning, what to change, and whether those changes drive real business outcomes.
We’re growing 50% month over month .
You’ll work directly with me, Kaushik Mahorker, founder of Wildcard.
Previously at Scale AI, I built the ecommerce enrichment engine behind the company’s largest pilot across 400K SKUs, 2.8M attributes, and hundreds of taxonomies, helping secure $15M+ in contracts with major retailers and marketplaces.
That experience made something clear: shopping discovery is being rebuilt for an AI-first world, and most brands are not prepared for the shift.
We’re looking for a Founding Applied ML Engineer to help shape both the product and the company from the earliest stage.
This is engineer number one. You are not joining...
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