--- title: 'Implementation Engineer at Emi Labs' canonical: 'https://feeny.ai/job/implementation-engineer-emi-labs-buenos-aires-8a6zd3b1rzg7' type: 'job' last_seen: '2026-11-04' --- # Implementation Engineer at Emi Labs - **Company:** Emi Labs - **Location:** Buenos Aires, Argentina - **Employment:** full-time - **Work type:** remote - **Posted:** 2024-07-04 - **Last confirmed live:** 2026-11-04 - **Apply:** https://jobs.lever.co/emilabs/2a767155-5b00-4ab5-956e-7ace7c45a0b8 ## Job description At Emi Labs we are on a mission to increase Frontline Workers’ access to professional opportunities. This is a 2.7 billion population that accounts for 80% of the world’s workforce. They are digitally invisible, as there’s little to no data available on who they are, their career history, or their skill set, limiting their access to professional opportunities and growth. We're here to transform this by building the infrastructure to make Frontline Workers visible. Our first step to achieving our mission is to transform the recruiting experience into an easy, human and fair process, for both candidates and companies with high-volume job openings. Emi, our main product, is an A.I. recruitment assistant that enables companies to engage in a conversation with each applicant to detect interested and qualified individuals while saving Recruiters a huge amount of time by automating tasks such as screening, validating skills, scheduling interviews, and collecting documents. We were part of Y-Combinator's Winter 2019 batch and in 2022 we have raised an $11M funding round co-led by Merus Capital and Khosla Ventures. ## About Tech Implementation Team At Emi we are focused on solving real problems for our customers and for our candidates, which is why we are a customer-focused company. Every customer at Emi has their own tailored version of our platform and AI conversation to meet their specific recruitment needs. The Tech Implementation Team is in charge of building those versions of our platform to successfully implement our customers. We lead the setup of the tool working together with the product and customer experience teams focusing on creating a solution to the pains identified by the customers and adding value to their recruiting process. ## What you'll be doing You will use our internal tools to create and improve candidate interactions with the bot and recruiter interactions with the platform, by building the best version of Emi for each customer. Working closely with the Customer Success, Tech, and Product teams, you will ensure the platform's features are implemented according to the client's requirements, based on your deep understanding of our product's capabilities. You will master the processes and tools that allow you to configure, adjust, and ensure platform quality. You’ll be a trusted team member in client projects, to help innovate their recruiting process by 10X. Tasks / Activities - Ensure the successful configuration of the Emi solution promptly in alignment with their business case and expectations through the use of our internal tools. - Design conversational interactions by transforming business requirements into logical rules and product definitions. - Collaborate with our internal product teams to improve our toolset and bot capabilities. - Design and lead functional internal QA strategies and UAT with customers and iterate based on results to ensure customer-centric and flawless platform configuration. - Collaborate with internal teams (tech, product, and project managers) in a joint effort to comply with project milestones. - Improve our Implementation process in order to help Emi scale as efficiently as possible, ensuring high quality and being able to measure them in KPIs. - Analyze and present insights into the real-time results of each implementation and improve them upon direct or indirect user feedback/usage insights. - Participate and help build the company’s inclusive and people-driven culture ## What we're looking for - +1 year of work experience - Analytical skills - Detail-oriented and process-driven - Basic technology knowledge (json structures, programming logics) - Ability to deliver quality work on a tight schedule - Great prioritization and  organization skills in a fast-paced environment - Proactivity to seek out opportunities to improve what we do and how we do it - Excellent writing skills in both English and Spanish - Clear and simple communication skills - Comfortable working with multiple stakeholders - Extreme curiosity, a bias for action, and an appetite for learning and growth - Ability to work in a high-growth environment and adapt to changing scenarios and uncertainty ## Nice to have - Basic programming skills in Python - SQL knowledge. - Expertise with Analytics tools (Tableau, Metabase, etc.). - Expertise with Excel. - Scrum, Agile, or any Project management certification is a plus. - Background in linguistics or AI. ## What we offer - 💰 Competitive salary: Salaries paid in USD - 📈 Stock Options: Stock Options Package as part of your compensation package - 🧑🏽‍💻 Flexible remote-first work culture. We work towards goals* - 🏖️ Vacations: 3-weeks of vacation. - 🍼 Paternity leave: 4 weeks of paid paternity leave - 🧑‍🎄 Holiday season: Week off between Christmas and New Years' eve - 💆 Physical Wellness program: we have partnered up with Gympass, a wellbeing platform that offers the best coverage of top gyms, studios and activities for you to choose from. - 🇺🇸 English Classes: Improve your English skills with our in-company teachers. - 📚 Internal library: Get all the free books - digital, physical - you like, anytime. Emi Labs is committed to fostering a fair, inclusive, and equal work environment. We believe diversity is crucial to building the best team and solving Frontline Worker's access to professional opportunities, that is why Emi aims to be a leader in workplace equality and move both our company and the industry forward. Emi is a very dynamic and new startup where growth opportunities are there for the taking! We are just building a team with great impact so now is the best time to jump aboard! Interested in knowing more about Emi Labs? - LinkedIn profile: https://www.linkedin.com/company/emi-labs/ - Web Page: https://www.emilabs.ai/ ## About Emi Labs ## Company Overview - **One-liner**: Emi Labs provides an AI-powered recruiting automation platform that helps high-volume employers hire frontline workers faster through autonomous agents on WhatsApp, SMS, and Messenger. - **Entity Type**: Private (Series A; total funding $13.1M) - **Headquarters**: San Francisco, California, United States (with offices in Buenos Aires, Argentina and Mexico City, Mexico) - **Founded**: 2017 (Y Combinator Winter 2019 batch) - **Founders**: Mateo Cavasotto (CEO) and Andrés Arslanian (CTO) ## Core Business - **Primary industry**: HR Tech / Recruiting Software - **Target customers**: B2B – Enterprise companies with high-volume frontline hiring needs (retail, logistics, food & beverage, manufacturing) - **Mission**: Increase frontline workers’ access to professional opportunities by building digital infrastructure that makes them visible and supports their growth. ## Products & Services - **Emi Workforce AI Platform**: A SaaS platform that automates the full frontline hiring cycle – from candidate attraction and engagement via AI agents on WhatsApp, Messenger, and SMS, through screening, interview scheduling, and HRIS integration. Uses generative AI for personalized conversations at scale. ## Market Standing - **Valuation/Market Cap**: Not publicly available (private company) - **Key Metric**: Annual Revenue ~$10M (estimated); Total Funding $13.1M - **Notable Investors/Partners**: Khosla Ventures (lead in Series A and Seed), Merus Capital (lead in Series A); customers include Walmart, OXXO, Coca-Cola FEMSA, Mercado Libre, Home Depot, Heineken, Danone, Liverpool, Alsea, and 50+ other enterprises. - **Growth Signals**: - 1 in 10 frontline hires in Mexico go through Emi. - 750,000+ frontline workers hired via the platform. - 90% vacancy fill rate, 50% reduction in time-to-hire reported. - 12M+ AI conversations processed 24/7. - However, headcount dropped 40% YoY to 57 employees (from ~101). This may indicate restructuring or pivot to efficiency. ## Competitive Advantages - **Generative AI agents** that engage candidates in natural, personalized conversations across messaging apps – not just rules-based bots. - **Deep focus on frontline hourly workers** (80% of global workforce), a historically underserved segment. - **End-to-end automation** from attraction to onboarding, reducing manual recruiter effort. - **Strong enterprise traction** with major Latin American and global brands. ## Strategic Focus - Continue expanding AI capabilities for screening, document validation, and autonomous hiring. - Deepen presence in Mexico and other Latin American markets while serving global enterprises. - Build infrastructure to support frontline workers beyond hiring (e.g., retention, upskilling). ## Why Work Here - **Hybrid work model** (flexibility to work from anywhere, with offices in SF, Buenos Aires, Mexico City). - **Wellness program** supporting mental, physical, and emotional health. - **Health insurance** (medical, dental, vision). - **Competitive compensation**. - **Culture score 4.6/5** on employer reviews (overall 3.7/5; work-life 3.9, career 4.0). - **YC-backed startup** with mission-driven focus on empowering frontline workers. - Team distributed across 5 countries (Argentina, Mexico, US, Colombia, Brazil). ## Sources 1. [emilabs.ai](https://www.emilabs.ai/en) 2. [emilabs.ai/about](https://www.emilabs.ai/en/about) 3. [linkedin.com/company/emi-labs](https://www.linkedin.com/company/emi-labs) 4. [ycombinator.com/companies/emi-labs](https://www.ycombinator.com/companies/emi-labs) 5. 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