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title: 'Senior AI Engineer at Spara'
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# Senior AI Engineer at Spara

- **Company:** Spara
- **Location:** New York, NY
- **Employment:** full-time
- **Posted:** 2025-09-18
- **Last confirmed live:** 2026-09-06
- **Apply:** https://jobs.ashbyhq.com/spara/523871d0-32bc-4ef4-8da0-daca542122ea

## Job description

## ABOUT SPARA

Spara is building AI agents that sell. Our agents engage buyers across chat, voice, and email, handling everything from qualifying leads to booking meetings to answering deep product questions. We work with companies ranging from fast-growing startups to large enterprises, and our product is working: customers like Rho are seeing step-change improvements in their sales pipeline within weeks of going live.

Sales technology is a massive market, and the shift to AI-native GTM motions is still early. We're building the company that defines how it plays out. We've raised $15M from Radical Ventures and Inspired Capital, backed by the founders of PyTorch and Google Cloud TPU, and Heads of Sales at Anthropic and OpenAI.

Our founders have done this before: David was co-founder and CEO of Triplemint, which he led to acquisition, and Zander was technical co-founder of Nomad Health (now post-Series D) and most recently led Platform at Hyperscience AI.

We're a 20-person team in downtown Manhattan building something that will be much bigger. Our engineering team is small and senior, and everyone has real influence on what we build and how we build it.

## THIS ROLE

We're looking for an engineer who lives and breathes the current wave of AI. Someone who's building with agents outside of work, has opinions about the latest model releases, and wants to apply that energy to production systems used by large enterprises.

As a Senior AI Engineer at Spara, you will:

- Build and iterate on the AI systems that power our agents across chat, email, voice, meeting assistants, and lead enrichment. We ship new agent capabilities regularly, and the surface area is expanding fast.
- Work across multiple agentic systems, both customer-facing and internal. You won't be stuck on one thing.
- Improve retrieval, ranking, and response quality in a system that handles real customer conversations every day. The feedback loops are tight and the stakes are real.
- Contribute to how we evaluate and measure quality across the platform. We care a lot about evals and are investing heavily here.
- Ship to production multiple times a day using a modern stack: FastAPI/Python, React/TypeScript, Postgres + pgvector, multiple foundation models (OpenAI, Anthropic), Google Cloud, Docker, GitHub Actions.

## WHAT WE'RE LOOKING FOR

- 4+ years of engineering experience with meaningful time spent working with LLMs and related technologies
- At least one startup under your belt. You know what it's like to build fast with a small team and wear multiple hats.
- Deep familiarity with the agentic AI landscape. You follow what's happening, you've tried the new tools, you have opinions.
- Proven ability to ship ML/AI systems in production, not just prototypes
- Strong software engineering fundamentals across the stack
- You're excited about the messy, fast-moving parts of building an early-stage AI company

## NICE TO HAVE:

- Experience with retrieval systems, search, or NLP
- Advanced degree in ML or a related field

## LOCATION & WORK SCHEDULE

Hybrid: 3 days per week in our office in downtown Manhattan (World Trade Center), with the option to work remotely on Wednesdays and Fridays.

## COMPENSATION & BENEFITS

- Health, dental, and vision insurance
- Flexible PTO
- Collaborative environment with experienced engineers solving hard problems together
- Real ownership over product direction from day one
- In-office culture in NYC with flexibility for work-life balance

## About Spara

## Company Overview
- **One-liner**: Spara is a GTM AI agent platform that helps revenue teams instantly engage, qualify, and convert leads through AI-powered conversations across chat, email, and voice.
- **Entity Type**: Private (Seed stage)
- **Headquarters**: New York, New York, United States
- **Founded**: 2023
- **Founders**: David Walker (Co-Founder) and Zander Pease (Co-Founder & CTO)

## Core Business
- **Primary industry**: Sales & Marketing Technology (GTM AI), Business/Productivity Software
- **Target customers**: B2B, from lean startups to global enterprises (SMB to Enterprise)
- **Mission or purpose statement**: "Empower every organization with GTM AI" — the company believes every business will have 1000x more bespoke lead interactions than today, all powered by AI, creating the "Ideal Buying Experience."

## Products & Services
- **Inbound Lead Qualification**: Conversational AI that qualifies website visitors in real-time, routes hot leads to sales, and deflects non-fits.
- **Outbound Sales Engagement**: Personalized multichannel outbound sequences with AI-drafted messaging and automated cadence logic.
- **AI Product Demos**: Let prospects experience the product through an AI-guided interactive demo, then route engaged users to sales.
- **Event & Webinar Follow-Up**: Automatically follow up with event attendees, qualify interest, and book meetings for sales.
- **PLG Upsell**: Convert free or low-tier users into paid customers by identifying high-usage accounts and engaging them at the right moment.
- **Post-Sale Onboarding**: Guide new customers through onboarding with proactive touchpoints, resource delivery, and milestone tracking.

## Market Standing
- **Valuation/Market Cap**: Not publicly disclosed
- **Key Metric**: Total funding raised: **$29.2M** across two rounds (Seed Round in Oct 2024, $15M Seed Round in Sep 2025 led by Inspired Capital Partners and Radical Ventures)
- **Notable Investors/Partners**: Radical Ventures, Inspired Capital, XYZ Venture Capital, FJ Labs, Remarkable Ventures, plus strategic angels from OpenAI, Anthropic, Google, Meta, Databricks, and G2.
- **Growth Signals**: Headcount grew **+136.4% YoY** (from ~9 to 22 employees). The company reports that Rho achieved **3.1x increase in form-to-meeting conversion** and booked **137 meetings in Q2 alone** using Spara.

## Competitive Advantages
- **Enterprise-grade safety**: SOC II compliant AI pipeline flags malicious or sensitive conversations with buyers.
- **Model Agnostic**: Runs on the best model for the job — as AI evolves, the agent evolves without rebuilding from scratch.
- **No-code platform**: Easy to train from website, sales collateral, and training guides; test and improve responses over time.
- **Hybrid human & AI motion**: Designed to let AEs focus on high-value conversations while Spara handles everything else.

## Strategic Focus
- **Current priorities**: Scaling the platform for enterprise customers, expanding outbound and inbound use cases, and continuing to improve AI agent accuracy and safety. The company is actively hiring for revenue roles (Account Executive) to drive commercial growth.

## Why Work Here
- **Culture highlights**: Backed by leading GTM and AI investors and operators; team is passionate about building AI that drives real business outcomes. Described as a "human/AI hybrid" environment where technology amplifies human sales efforts.
- **Remote/hybrid/office policy**: Headquartered in New York, NY (299 West 12th Street). Likely hybrid or in-office given the early-stage size (22 employees).
- **Notable perks or engineering culture**: Technical team makes up 38% of the workforce (10 people). Founding team includes a CTO (Zander Pease) and Head of AI (Joseph Goldbeck), indicating strong engineering DNA. Active job posting for Account Executive suggests growth-stage urgency and opportunity for impact.

## Sources
1. [spara.com](https://www.spara.com/)
2. [spara.com/about](https://www.spara.com/about)
3. [linkedin.com/company/getspara](https://www.linkedin.com/company/getspara)
4. [pitchbook.com/profiles/company/593655-94](https://pitchbook.com/profiles/company/593655-94)
5. [jobs.ashbyhq.com/spara](https://jobs.ashbyhq.com/spara)

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