Key Responsibilities:
- Help Drive Yardzen’s AI roadmap: Collaborate with Product to Identify, prioritize, and lead AI initiatives across client features and internal tooling.
- Develop and deploy production-ready AI features: Work across LLMs, computer vision, and/or recommendation systems to solve real product and business challenges.
- Prototype and ship quickly: Build, test, and iterate on AI-powered features, collaborating closely with product and engineering teams.
- Lay the technical foundation for AI at Yardzen: Establish best practices for engineering workflows, model training, deployment, monitoring, and scaling.
- Drive tangible impact: Focus on AI solutions that improve client experience, accelerate our landscape design workflows, and improve operational efficiency.
- Act as a thought partner: Educate and collaborate with cross-functional teams to identify new AI use cases and possibilities across the whole organization.
Qualifications:
- 5+ years of experience in applied AI/ML engineering, with demonstrated success building and deploying AI driven features in production environments.
- Hands-on experience with modern AI frameworks (e.g., PyTorch, TensorFlow) and working knowledge of LLMs (OpenAI, Claude, or open-source models).
- Strong software engineering fundamentals, ideally with experience integrating AI solutions into web applications (our stack includes React and Python/Django).
- You thrive in fast-paced, ambiguous environments, and love building from 0→1.
- You enjoy balancing technical execution with product thinking — focusing on solutions that drive real business impact.
- Excellent communication skills and comfort working across technical and non-technical stakeholders.
Nice To Have:
- Experience with MLOps and scalable model deployment.
- Experience in consumer-facing tech or marketplaces.
- Interest in home improvement, design, or architecture.
What We Offer:
- Remote work, always: We're a remote-first company
- Full coverage for you: 100% paid medical, dental, and vision insurance
- Competitive compensation: Salary that matches your skills and experience
- Support for growing families: 12 weeks of fully paid parental leave
- Monthly perks: Wellness, cell phone, and internet stipends to keep you connected and cared for
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What We Do
Yardzen, the online landscape design and build company, is on a mission to help people live a better life outside. Yardzen’s expert team connects homeowners with talented landscape designers and contractors for the easiest, most delightful outdoor renovation experience available. Leveraging plant science, data, and modeling software, Yardzen’s remote design team creates custom, executable landscape designs that reflect a homeowner’s budget, style preferences, unique site conditions, and how they want to live in their space. The design phase includes a thorough round of revisions through a state-of-the-art online studio, allowing for homeowners to collaborate at their convenience and on their schedule. Then, to facilitate the transfer from the studio to the field, Yardzen’s team works with every homeowner to pair them with a local, vetted contractor in our Pro Network, ensuring a timely and highly communicative bidding and installation experience. Yardzen remains involved throughout the build phase, and beyond, guarantee that every client loves their new outdoor space.
Why Work With Us
At Yardzen, we’re committed to creating a space where our employees can bring their full selves to work and have equal opportunities to succeed. We are looking for people that will add to our culture, not just fit in.
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