Teams at Varick Agents

Supports client engagements through discovery, process mapping, analysis, and readouts. Also contributes to outbound, webinars, executive events, recruiting, marketing research, client coordination, and eventually sales calls. The role requires strong communication, analytical problem-solving, adaptability, AI fluency, client presence, ownership, urgency, and comfort working across functions in a fast-growing AI startup.

Conduct applied, production-facing AI research to improve enterprise agents. Own fine-tuning, preference optimization, post-training pipelines, evaluation suites, and golden datasets. Analyze production traces and failures to create training data and targeted improvements. Collaborate on model routing, distillation, inference cost, and latency while determining when fine-tuning outperforms prompting, retrieval, or scaffolding.

Own full-cycle recruiting across engineering, forward-deployed strategy, and go-to-market roles. Source and close high-caliber passive candidates, partner with founders and hiring managers, calibrate hiring standards, run efficient interview processes, and manage recruiting systems and data in Ashby. The role requires strong talent judgment, speed, proactive communication, startup adaptability, and on-site work in San Francisco five days per week.