AI Engineer

Outlink AI is looking for an AI Engineer to help build and improve the automated systems that power our outreach platform for link building. Our product runs an end-to-end autopilot loop - discovering prospects, qualifying them, personalizing outreach, sending from users' own inboxes, following up, handling replies, and verifying live placements - and AI is central to how each of those steps works. You'll join the engineering team building and refining the models and pipelines behind this loop.

What you'll do

• Design, build, and maintain AI/ML pipelines that power prospect qualification, personalization, and reply classification
• Develop and iterate on prompt strategies and/or fine-tuned models for generating context-aware, personalized outreach content
• Build systems to evaluate model output quality, relevance scoring accuracy, and spam/PBN filtering performance
• Integrate large language model APIs and/or self-hosted models into production services
• Collaborate with product and engineering to design guardrails that keep automation within user-defined relevance, volume, and budget limits
• Monitor and improve system performance, latency, and cost efficiency of AI-driven features in production

What we're looking for

• Professional experience building and deploying machine learning or LLM-based systems in production
• Strong software engineering skills, with proficiency in Python or a similar language used for ML/AI development
• Experience working with large language model APIs (e.g., OpenAI, Anthropic) or open-source model frameworks
• Familiarity with prompt engineering, fine-tuning, retrieval-augmented generation, or related techniques
• Understanding of evaluation methods for generative AI output quality and reliability
• Comfortable working in a fast-moving startup environment with evolving priorities

Nice to have

• Experience with natural language processing tasks such as classification, entity extraction, or text personalization at scale
• Background in building systems involving email deliverability, outreach automation, or marketing technology
• Experience designing guardrail or approval-based systems for automated decision-making