AI Engineer

Posted Yesterday
Calabasas, CA, USA
In-Office
75K-85K Annually
Mid level
eCommerce • Fashion • Retail
The Role
Design, build, and deploy LLM-powered applications, agents, and automation pipelines. Implement RESTful APIs, write production-quality code (Python, React, Node.js), deploy on AWS/Heroku with CI/CD, and partner cross-functionally to drive acquisition, retention, and operational efficiency.
Summary Generated by Built In

True Classic is looking for an AI Engineer to design, build, and deploy AI-powered applications and workflows that solve real business problems across the company. In this hands-on, execution-focused role, you will work cross-functionally to integrate AI into how we acquire customers, maximize lifetime value, and streamline operations.

You’ll thrive here if you’re a problem solver first—someone who would rather ship solutions than wait on specs or build slide decks. You’re comfortable writing clean, production-ready code, moving quickly, and turning ambiguous problems into real, working systems that drive impact.

All True Classic roles are global and omni-channel, driving accountability across product categories, regions, and sales/marketing channels. This role will allow you to impact operations worldwide, ensuring alignment with our business objectives and delivering success across diverse markets and platforms.

What You Will Do
  • Design and develop AI-powered applications, tools, and workflows that address high-leverage True Classic business problems

  • Build AI agents, automation pipelines, and LLM-powered features across acquisition, retention, and operations

  • Implement and integrate RESTful APIs for efficient, secure data access and exchange across our tech stack

  • Write clean, maintainable, production-quality code across Python, React, Node.js, and other relevant frameworks

  • Deploy and manage applications on AWS and other cloud platforms using modern CI/CD pipelines

  • Partner with marketing, finance, operations, and commercial teams to solve their hardest problems

  • Perform code reviews, enforce best practices, and drive continuous improvement

  • Evaluate and implement AI tools that fit our stack — and stay at the frontier to bring new capabilities in

Cross-Functional Collaboration
  • Marketing: AI-powered acquisition, creative testing, audience targeting, and lifecycle tools

  • eCommerce & Product: Personalization, search, merchandising, and conversion optimization

  • Operations: Automation of high-friction workflows across supply chain and fulfillment

  • Finance & BI: Connect AI initiatives to revenue, margin, and efficiency KPIs

  • Commercial Channels: Solutions that work across DTC, wholesale, marketplace, and international

Qualifications
  • Professional experience in AI engineering or software development

  • Bachelor's degree in Computer Science or related field

  • Strong expertise in AI prompting, engineering workflows, and working with LLMs (Claude, OpenAI, or similar)

  • Proficiency in Python, React, Node.js, Express.js — SQL/PostgreSQL a plus

  • Hands-on experience with cloud and DevOps: AWS, Heroku, GitHub CI/CD

  • Strong understanding of RESTful API design and implementation

  • Systems thinker who can architect end-to-end solutions, not just point fixes

  • Creative, tenacious, and hungry — thrives in ambiguity and moves with urgency

Preferred Qualifications
  • Experience at a DTC, e-commerce, or consumer brand

  • Familiarity with our stack: Meta, Google, TikTok, Klaviyo, Triple Whale, Shopify

  • Experience with prompt engineering best practices for AI-driven workflows

  • Track record deploying scalable AI solutions in production environments

Workplace Arrangment 

This role is on-site, five days a week, based in Calabasas, California.

Why True Classic
  • One of the fastest-growing consumer brands in the world — and we are just getting started

  • AI-native from the top down: leadership is personally invested in AI transformation

  • Industry-leading, innovative work you will not find inside most consumer brands

  • Grow fast: scope, title, and comp scale with the company

  • Real impact — your work shapes the experience of millions of customers worldwide

  • Human, work-friendly environment where great people do their best work

Compensation and Benefits

Compensation
  • $75k-$85k + bonus

Time Off
  • Unlimited PTO and sick time

Health & Wellness
  • Company-paid medical, dental, and vision insurance

  • $100/month Wellness Stipend

  • Free Employee Assistance Program (EAP)

Work & Growth Support
  • $100/month Personal Workspace/Office Stipend

Perks
  • $1,000/year True Classic merchandise allowance

  • 401(k) plan with 3% company match

Skills Required

  • Professional experience in AI engineering or software development
  • Bachelor's degree in Computer Science or related field
  • Strong expertise in AI prompting, engineering workflows, and working with LLMs (Claude, OpenAI, or similar)
  • Proficiency in Python, React, Node.js, Express.js
  • SQL/PostgreSQL (a plus)
  • Hands-on experience with cloud and DevOps: AWS, Heroku, GitHub CI/CD
  • Strong understanding of RESTful API design and implementation
  • Systems thinker able to architect end-to-end solutions
  • Experience at a DTC, e-commerce, or consumer brand
  • Familiarity with Meta, Google, TikTok, Klaviyo, Triple Whale, Shopify
  • Experience with prompt engineering best practices for AI-driven workflows
  • Track record deploying scalable AI solutions in production environments
Am I A Good Fit?
beta
Get Personalized Job Insights.
Our AI-powered fit analysis compares your resume with a job listing so you know if your skills & experience align.

The Company
125 Employees
Year Founded: 2019

What We Do

True Classic is a direct-to-consumer apparel company focused on premium men’s clothing, especially soft, fitted T-shirts and versatile everyday basics. It aims to make fit, comfort, quality, and confidence accessible, designing products for different men’s body types. The brand sells primarily online while expanding through owned stores and retail partners, and its mission emphasizes helping people look and feel their best.

Similar Jobs

Capital One Logo Capital One

Artificial Intelligence Engineer

Fintech • Machine Learning • Payments • Software • Financial Services
Hybrid
5 Locations
55000 Employees
230K-286K Annually
Hybrid
Palo Alto, CA, USA
289097 Employees

CrowdStrike Logo CrowdStrike

Staff Engineer

Cloud • Computer Vision • Information Technology • Sales • Security • Cybersecurity
Remote or Hybrid
USA
11000 Employees
195K-290K Annually

CoreWeave Logo CoreWeave

Forward Deployed Engineer, AI Agents

Cloud • Information Technology • Machine Learning
In-Office
2 Locations
1450 Employees
182K-242K Annually

Similar Companies Hiring

PRIMA Thumbnail
Travel • Software • Marketing Tech • Hospitality • eCommerce
US
15 Employees
Scotch Thumbnail
Artificial Intelligence • eCommerce • Fintech • Payments • Retail • Software • Analytics
US
35 Employees
Golden Pet Brands Thumbnail
Digital Media • eCommerce • Information Technology • Marketing Tech • Pet • Retail • Social Media
El Segundo, California
178 Employees

Sign up now Access later

Create Free Account

Please log in or sign up to report this job.

Create Free Account