AI Tooling Engineer

Join the Future of Commerce with Whatnot!

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Whatnot is the largest live shopping platform in North America and Europe to buy, sell, and discover the things you love. Whether it's trading cards, fashion, electronics, or live plants, our sellers are building real businesses across hundreds of categories. We're building live commerce at a scale that's never been done in the West, and there's no playbook to copy. The people here are shaping how an entirely new industry develops.

As a remote co-located team, we're inspired by our values and anchored in hubs across the US, UK, Ireland, Poland, Germany, and Australia. We move fast, stay close to our users, and focus on the work that drives the most impact.

We're one of the fastest growing marketplaces and were recently named the #1 Best Startup Employer in America by Forbes. Check out the latest Whatnot updates on our news and engineering blogs and join us as we enable anyone to turn their passion into a business and bring people together through commerce.

The Role

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We're looking for an AI Engineer to build the internal tools, prototypes, and business workflows that put AI into the hands of every team at Whatnot. You'll own ambiguous, cross-org bets end-to-end: finding real problems, shipping working software fast, hardening what works, and scaling how Whatnot gets value out of AI. You’ll partner with Whatnot’s AI Platform and Developer Tools teams to leverage their systems, add new functionality, and find ways to accelerate adoption by non-technical team members.

This is a high-velocity, high-judgment builder role. You've shipped a lot of apps and prototypes—you're someone who can sit with a CX lead or an ops manager, understand their workflow in an afternoon, and have a working prototype in their hands by the end of the week. You create leverage for yourself by building on top of 3rd party tools where it’s advantageous but also know how to...