Founding AI Engineer, New Business Unit

Who we are:

Nirvana is on a mission to harness the power of data to revolutionize commercial insurance and enable a safer world. We are bringing much-needed innovation into the legacy, trillion-dollar commercial insurance industry. We have developed cutting-edge predictive models that use real-time IoT data from billions of connected devices, allowing us to better understand and price risk. Our AI-driven platform fundamentally changes the way an insurance company operates with personalized risk scoring, faster underwriting, modernized claims, and proactive, data-driven insights to help customers prevent accidents.

We’ve already proven the scale—reaching well over $100 million in premiums and more than doubling year over year. Our data moat is growing exponentially with more than 20 billion miles of telematics data, leading to more predictive models and new insights into how we can better understand and reduce risk. Altogether, our loss ratio, efficiency, and customer experience are redefining what can be done in the industry.

With $170+ million raised, including an industry-leading Series C round in January 2025, we’re only accelerating our growth, with strong support from top-tier VCs including Lightspeed, General Catalyst, and Valor. Nirvana’s leadership team has previously helped scale multi-billion-dollar companies from scratch, including Samsara, and Flexport, and includes industry veterans from Hiscox, The Hartford, and RLI.

About the role:

We are building the Founding Engineering team for a new hypergrowth AI business unit. Your work in this role will be to build AI Agents and AI Workflows that enable unique, tailored experiences for insurance use cases. Your work will make the insurance industry move 10x faster, and unlock efficiency gains that’ll delight insurance professionals and their customers alike. This is a high velocity, high impact role that will revolutionize the $1T+ global insurance market.

About you:

• Delighted by customer research. You’re excited about immersing yourself in the day to day of our customer base to build meaningful product experiences.

• Thrive in challenging situations. You'll map out complex customer workflows and deploy end to end custom builds.

• Strong communication skills. You will partner with Product, GTM, Design, and Marketing teams, as well as directly interface with end users.

• High velocity and ownership in an ambiguous environment. We are moving exceptionally fast in a space that hasn’t been innovated before. You’ll make decisions without incomplete data. You’ll test, learn, and scale.

• Full stack engineering experience. You’ll be coding across the stack and are comfortable in different languages and platforms.

• Hands-on with modern AI stacks (LLMs, VLMs, ASR/TTS, vector stores, orchestration, evals). You’re pragmatic about trade-offs across latency, cost, reliability, and safety.

US Benefits:

• Competitive salary & equity

• Medical, dental & vision insurance

• 401k with company match

• Unlimited PTO

• Company sponsored lunch 3x per week

• Off sites, happy hours, and team building events

We set our salary ranges using compensation data from companies similar to our stage and size. For this role, the estimated salary range for this position is $144,000 - $240,000. The actual base salary will vary depending on multiple factors unique to each candidate, including location, job-related knowledge, transferable skills, work experience and our assessment of your level during the interview process. Nirvana offers equity for all full-time employees, which is not included in the range listed above and will have an impact on your overall compensation.

Nirvana offers a wide range of best-in-class, comprehensive benefits including 100% employer paid healthcare plans, an up to 4% 401k match program, paid time off, parental leave, wellness reimbursement, work-from-home stipend and more.Nirvana is committed to building a diverse and inclusive workforce. If you’re interested in this role, but do not meet 100% of the qualifications listed above, we encourage you to apply. We'd like to consider you for this position and roles that may be a fit in the future.

Nirvana is an Equal Opportunity Employer and considers applicants for employment without regard to race, color, religion, sex, orientation, national origin, age, disability, genetics or any other basis forbidden under federal, state, or local law. Nirvana considers all qualified applicants in accordance with the San Francisco Fair Chance Ordinance.