AI Systems Engineer (AI Platform)
Sidekick Labs is building agentic AI-powered AR smart glasses for the travel industry. This role focuses on the AI platform team, specifically owning the agent runtime for orchestration, tool-calling, and reliability. You will work directly with the CTO to design scalable interfaces between AI middleware and the Ruby on Rails backend. The position requires deep expertise in Node.js, LLM function calling, and observability pipelines to ensure production reliability.
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Experience
Experience not specified
Function
Engineering
Work mode
Hybrid, Singapore
Company
Tier 2
What you will work on
Sidekick Labs is building agentic AI-powered AR smart glasses for the travel industry. This role focuses on the AI platform team, specifically owning the agent runtime for orchestration, tool-calling, and reliability. You will work directly with the CTO to design scalable interfaces between AI middleware and the Ruby on Rails backend. The position requires deep expertise in Node.js, LLM function calling, and observability pipelines to ensure production reliability.
TAL's take
Well-scoped AI engineering role at an early-stage startup building a novel product, offering high ownership.
The JD provides an extremely clear definition of the AI platform team's responsibilities, the specific tech stack, and the expected daily output.
Must haves
- TypeScript and Node.js backend depth
- Experience with function calling and JSON Schema structured outputs
- Production-layer LLM systems engineering
- Data modeling proficiency with PostgreSQL
- Experience with AI observability and tracing
Tools and skills
Nice to have: ruby on rails, docker, performance monitoring.
About the company
Early-stage startup with specialized AI product, not yet a household tech name.