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# Senior Software Engineer -- Applied AI at Plot Technologies, Inc.

- **Company:** Plot Technologies, Inc.
- **Location:** New York, NY
- **Compensation:** $150k–$230k
- **Employment:** full-time
- **Work type:** onsite
- **Posted:** 2026-01-22
- **Last confirmed live:** 2026-09-05
- **Apply:** https://jobs.ashbyhq.com/plot/b9841f72-75b4-47ac-8f95-d5289d938c17

## Job description

## WHY PLOT

Plot is building the next generation of social intelligence — an AI-native platform that helps some of the world's most influential brands understand culture, find emerging trends, and activate their communities at scale. We're a high-growth, venture-backed startup supported by the co-founders of Reddit and Plaid, with customers like Tory Burch, Lululemon, La Roche-Posay, and other household names.

We operate at the frontier of applied AI and agentic systems, ingesting and reasoning over millions of short-form videos to uncover consumer insights no one else can see. Our work impacts real product decisions, global marketing campaigns, and how brands engage their fans.

You'll join a small experienced team where engineers ship product — not tickets. You'll work hand-in-hand with our product designer from day one, shaping features before specs exist and turning rough ideas into shipped experiences. You'll work directly with founders, hop on customer calls, and own company-defining features end-to-end. If you want real responsibility, fast learning loops, and the ability to shape both product and company, Plot is the place. It's also a perfect fit if you aspire to build your own startup one day — we operate with a deep founder's mindset.

## WHAT YOU'LL WORK ON

- Build agentic, reasoning-driven systems on top of cutting-edge LLMs to power consumer intelligence, marketing automation, and influencer activation.
- Collaborate deeply with product design to prototype, iterate, and ship AI features from 0→1. You'll be in Figma reviews, whiteboarding sessions, and user interviews — not just implementing handed-down specs.
- Design & execute LLM/ML evaluation frameworks — from offline benchmarks to live A/B tests — to measure quality, reliability, and business impact.
- Own full-stack AI product features: prompt design, orchestration, tooling, monitoring, and the UX that brings it all together.
- Collaborate closely with founders, design, marketing, and customers to ensure our AI deliver real customer value
- Stay at the front of the curve: research, prototype, and integrate emerging methods in agentic reasoning, context engineering, and LLM-driven automation.
- Note: This role is not focused on training foundation models — it's about building high-leverage systems on top of them (think "Claude-Code over Claude-Model").

## WHAT WE'RE LOOKING FOR

- Proven track record shipping customer-facing products. You've built features users love and can move quickly across the entire stack — frontend, backend, infrastructure.
- Deep, hands-on familiarity with LLMs — evaluation, prompt engineering, tool use, context management, and agentic workflows. You stay current with the latest advances in AI and are excited to experiment with new techniques and apply them to real product problems.
- Strong product sense and design instinct. You have opinions about what makes AI experiences great — and what makes them terrible. You're comfortable working with designers in the earliest stages, before the UX is settled, to collaboratively shape what the product should be. You can wear multiple hats: engineer, product thinker, and user advocate.
- High ownership mindset. You like talking to users, debugging real data, reading logs, and doing the unglamorous work required to build great AI products.
- Curiosity, grit, and a drive to build things that feel like magic. No degree requirements.

## About Plot Technologies, Inc.

## Company Overview
- **One-liner**: Plot Technologies, Inc. provides an AI-powered video social listening platform that watches, listens to, and reads every frame of social video to capture brand mentions and actionable insights that traditional text-based tools miss.
- **Entity Type**: Private (Venture Capital-Backed; latest funding: Later Stage VC)
- **Headquarters**: New York City, New York, USA
- **Founded**: 2021
- **Founders**: Not publicly disclosed (the company states it was “built by social media marketers”)

## Core Business
- Primary industry: Social Media Analytics / Business/Productivity Software / AI & Machine Learning
- Target customers: B2B – social media teams in community management, marketing, research, and R&D; typically enterprise and SMB brands.
- Mission/purpose: “Make social teams unstoppable” by automating busywork and providing tools as powerful as the team’s impact.

## Products & Services
- **Plot Platform (Video Social Listening & Analytics)**: SaaS platform that uses proprietary AI to analyze video content (audio, visuals, captions) across social channels. Key modules include:
  - **AI-Powered Deep Market Research** – Answer strategic questions about brand, category, and competitors from video insights.
  - **Competitive Benchmarking** – Compare UGC performance against competitors.
  - **Brand Sentiment & Safety Monitoring** – Track positive/negative sentiment and flag brand safety issues.
  - **Creator Sourcing & Tracking** – Find superfans and creators by niche, attributes, audience, geo, size, or brand affinity; auto-track UGC from sourced creators.
  - **Campaign Measurement** – Measure views, engagement, EMV, and sentiment across every mention.
  - **Custom Reporting** – Slice performance by any description (gifted creators, specific content moments, etc.).
  - **Outbound Comment Engagement Tracking** – Track comment engagement driven by the team’s activity.

## Market Standing
- **Valuation**: Not disclosed (private company)
- **Key Metric**: Total Funding raised – $14M (as of June 2026)
  - Seed Round (Feb 2023): $3M
  - Seed Round (Nov 2025): undisclosed amount
  - Later Stage VC (Jun 2026): $10M
- **Notable Investors/Partners**: XYZ and Mischief Ventures (led the $10M round); 8 total investors (list not fully public).
- **Growth Signals**: Raised $10M in June 2026; actively hiring for multiple roles (Enterprise AE, Senior Backend Engineer, Staff Data Engineer, B2B Marketing Lead, etc.); headcount of 7 employees currently (small but scaling).

## Competitive Advantages
- **Video-native AI**: Reads audio, visuals, and captions—not just @handles—capturing 80% of brand mentions that occur in video and go untagged.
- **Purpose-built for social teams**: Built by former social media marketers; workflows tailored for community, creator, and research teams rather than generic social listening tools.
- **UGC discovery at scale**: Automatically surfaces 8x more user-generated content than traditional listening methods.
- **Context-rich analysis**: Provides 360° analysis of every video (who, what, why) for deeper market research.

## Strategic Focus
- Continue to scale the platform’s AI capabilities and expand enterprise customer base.
- Invest in product development (evident from open roles in applied AI, backend engineering, data engineering).
- Grow revenue and team from the current 7 employees to support increasing demand for video social listening.

## Why Work Here
- **Culture**: “Built with heart, by people who’ve done the work.” The team is composed of experienced social media marketers who understand the pain points.
- **Work Policy**: Hybrid workspace – employees combine remote work with in-office presence (office located in New York City, NY).
- **Perks & Environment**: Focus on creativity, community, and culture; emphasis on moving fast and proving impact.
- **Engineering Culture**: Open roles for Senior Backend Engineer, Senior Software Engineer – Applied AI, and Staff Data Engineer – indicating a strong investment in AI and infrastructure.

## Sources
1. [plot.so](https://www.plot.so/) – Official website
2. [plot.so/about-us](https://www.plot.so/about-us) – About page
3. [jobs.ashbyhq.com/plot](https://jobs.ashbyhq.com/plot) – Careers page
4. [builtin.com/company/plot-technologies-inc/](https://builtin.com/company/plot-technologies-inc/) – Built In profile (company overview, jobs, culture)
5. [pitchbook.com/profiles/company/521627-86](https://pitchbook.com/profiles/company/521627-86) – PitchBook profile (funding, employees, industry)

## Other roles at Plot Technologies, Inc.

- [Staff Data Engineer](https://feeny.ai/job/staff-data-engineer-plot-technologies-inc-new-york-apv9jwaabrgs) — New York, NY
- [Enterprise Account Executive](https://feeny.ai/job/enterprise-account-executive-plot-technologies-inc-new-york-d81ej2chzfgc) — New York, NY
- [Senior Backend Engineer](https://feeny.ai/job/senior-backend-engineer-plot-technologies-inc-new-york-ass82qs6rda3) — New York, NY