Co-op -- Applied AI
Co-op (internship-style) Applied AI engineer at Plot, a venture-backed NYC startup building an AI-native social intelligence platform for brands. Day to day: build agentic LLM systems, design LLM/ML evaluation frameworks, and ship full-stack AI features hand-in-hand with designers and founders.
- Compensation
- Not disclosed
- Location
- New York City
- Work setup
- Onsite
- Seniority
- Not specified
- Employment
- Internship
- Experience
- Not specified
- Category
- Ai engineering
- Posted
Skills
Must have
- Proven track record shipping customer-facing products
- Ability to move quickly across the entire stack — frontend, backend, infrastructure
- Deep, hands-on familiarity with LLMs — evaluation, prompt engineering, tool use, context management, agentic workflows
- Stay current with AI advances and experiment with new techniques on real product problems
- Strong product sense and design instinct; comfortable working with designers before UX is settled
- High ownership mindset — talking to users, debugging real data, reading logs
- Curiosity, grit, and a drive to build things that feel like magic
Nice to have
- No degree requirements
Full description
Why Plot
Plot is building the next generation of social intelligence — an AI-native platform that helps some of the world's most influential brands understand culture, find emerging trends, and activate their communities at scale. We're a high-growth, venture-backed startup supported by the co-founders of Reddit and Plaid, with customers like Tory Burch, Lululemon, La Roche-Posay, and other household names.
We operate at the frontier of applied AI and agentic systems, ingesting and reasoning over millions of short-form videos to uncover consumer insights no one else can see. Our work impacts real product decisions, global marketing campaigns, and how brands engage their fans.
You'll join a small experienced team where engineers ship product — not tickets. You'll work hand-in-hand with our product designer from day one, shaping features before specs exist and turning rough ideas into shipped experiences. You'll work directly with founders, hop on customer calls, and own company-defining features end-to-end. If you want real responsibility, fast learning loops, and the ability to shape both product and company, Plot is the place. It's also a perfect fit if you aspire to build your own startup one day — we operate with a deep founder's mindset.
What You'll Work On
- Build agentic, reasoning-driven systems on top of cutting-edge LLMs to power consumer intelligence, marketing automation, and influencer activation.
- Collaborate deeply with product design to prototype, iterate, and ship AI features from 0→1. You'll be in Figma reviews, whiteboarding sessions, and user interviews — not just implementing handed-down specs.
- Design & execute LLM/ML evaluation frameworks — from offline benchmarks to live A/B tests — to measure quality, reliability, and business impact.
- Own full-stack AI product features: prompt design, orchestration, tooling, monitoring, and the UX that brings it all together.
- Collaborate closely with founders, design, marketing, and customers to ensure our AI deliver real customer value
- Stay at the front of the curve: research, prototype, and integrate emerging methods in agentic reasoning, context engineering, and LLM-driven automation.
- Note: This role is not focused on training foundation models — it's about building high-leverage systems on top of them (think "Claude-Code over Claude-Model").
What We're Looking For
- Proven track record shipping customer-facing products. You've built features users love and can move quickly across the entire stack — frontend, backend, infrastructure.