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title: 'Staff Applied AI Engineer at DOSS'
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# Staff Applied AI Engineer at DOSS

- **Company:** DOSS
- **Location:** San Francisco, CA
- **Compensation:** $230k–$260k
- **Employment:** full-time
- **Work type:** onsite
- **Posted:** 2026-07-13
- **Last confirmed live:** 2026-09-08
- **Apply:** https://jobs.ashbyhq.com/doss/f698df9b-0fe0-49e6-88d1-f936f1aa301f

## Job description

## ABOUT DOSS

DOSS IS BUILDING AN OPERATIONS CLOUD FOR THE REAL WORLD.

A modern, AI-native platform for physical product businesses to manage the flow of goods, dollars, and data in real time, across:

- Procurement
- Inventory
- Orders
- Fulfillment
- Finance

Built to replace spreadsheet chaos and rigid, consultant-heavy ERPs. Fast time-to-value, adaptable as the business evolves.

Through our Adaptive Resource Platform (ARP) and unified operational data model, teams deploy quickly, automate workflows, and make changes without months of re-implementation.

We recently raised a $55M Series B https://www.doss.com/news/doss-raises-55m-series-b, co-led by Madrona and Premji Invest. Participation from Intuit Ventures, Theory Ventures, General Catalyst, Contrary Capital, and Pathlight VC.

DOSS is trusted by fast-growing operators to run critical operations with speed, control, and confidence.

About the role:

Every ERP claims to be "AI-powered." Almost none of them let an operator ask a question in plain language and get an answer grounded in their live procurement, inventory, and finance data, let alone let an agent safely take action on it. That's the goal of this job: you'll own applied AI across Doss: Dossbot (query, analyze, and automate via chat), AI-assisted schema and workflow generation, and the agentic automations that turn back-office busywork into background processes. You'll be the technical anchor for how foundation models meet a transactional system of record.

What you’ll do:

- Own the applied AI architecture end-to-end: model selection, orchestration, RAG over the unified operational data model, evals, guardrails, and cost/latency budgets in production.
- Build Dossbot into the primary interface for operations: natural-language search, analysis, and automation grounded in live supply-chain, finance, and ops data.
- Engineer AI-assisted tooling that uses foundation models to propose, validate, and apply customer schemas and workflow definitions on live production tenants.
- Design agentic workflows that act inside enterprise guardrails: permission-aware, auditable, tenant-isolated, and safe to run against a customer's system of record.
- Stand up the eval and observability infrastructure to measure quality, catch regressions, and proactively detect anomalous or risky emergent behavior.
- Partner with product, design, and our Forward Deployed team to deliver on their highest-leverage AI use cases.
- Mentor and shape engineering culture as the team's center of gravity for applied AI, raising the bar on how we build, evaluate, and ship LLM-powered systems.

What we’re looking for:

## Experience

- Shipped LLM-powered features or agents to production and operated them at scale, not just prototypes or demos.
- Deep hands-on work with foundation model APIs, RAG pipelines, tool use/function calling, prompt and context engineering, and fine-tuning where it earns its keep.
- Built eval harnesses and guardrails for non-deterministic systems running against business-critical data.
- Strong backend fundamentals: Designing systems, Postgres, and cloud services for reliable, multi-tenant web applications.
- Going from 0 to 1 in ambiguous settings, and judgment for when AI is the right tool and when it isn't.

Qualities

- Team player: you bring positivity, openness, and curiosity to the team every day.
- Growth mindset: everything is an opportunity to learn and improve yourself, the team, and the company.
- Craftsmanship: you care about making something of quality.
- Customer First: you care immensely about the customer experience journey and want to create a product full of delight.
- Pragmatic: you make the right decision based on circumstance, not theory.
- Low Ego: you work best in collaborative environments where everyone supports the team.

## WHAT YOU'LL GET

- Competitive salary + meaningful equity
- 100% Coverage for individuals Premium medical, dental & vision coverage
- 401(k), immediate eligibility
- Lunch in-office 5 days/week (and dinner when needed)
- Flexible/unlimited PTO
- Commuter (BART/MUNI/CalTrain) and equipment stipends
- Wellness & Fitness stipend
- Generous parental leave
- Relocation assistance available
- In-office culture in San Francisco

## About DOSS

## Company Overview
- **One-liner**: DOSS builds an AI-native Adaptive Resource Platform (ARP) and Operations Cloud that replaces legacy ERPs for physical product businesses, unifying data, workflows, and intelligence in one composable system.
- **Entity Type**: Private (Series B)
- **Headquarters**: San Francisco, California, United States
- **Founded**: 2022
- **Founders**: Wiley Jones and Arnav Mishra

## Core Business
- Primary industry/industries: Enterprise ERP & Operations Cloud, Supply Chain, Manufacturing
- Target customers: B2B — mid-market to enterprise businesses in consumer goods, food & beverage, health & beauty, manufacturing, and distribution
- Mission or purpose statement: Build the operating system for the real economy from first principles [doss.com](https://www.doss.com/about)

## Products & Services
- **DOSS IDP (Integration Data Platform)**: Foundational real-time data layer that unifies scattered catalog data into a master data model and integrates with hundreds of partners [doss.com](https://www.doss.com)
- **DOSS ARP (Adaptive Resource Platform)**: Modular, no-code system of record for managing and automating core operations — deploy 3x faster than legacy ERPs [doss.com](https://www.doss.com)
- **Dossbot**: AI copilot that solves problems and automates operational changes through natural language chat prompts [doss.com](https://www.doss.com)
- **DOSS DataStudio**: Real-time BI layer that turns live operational data into insights on margins, trends, and performance [doss.com](https://www.doss.com)
- **Functional Modules**: Inventory Management, Procurement, Order Management, Finance & Accounting, Freight & Fulfillment, Warehouse Management, Production Planning, Demand Planning, Project Management, Relationship Management [doss.com](https://www.doss.com)

## Market Standing
- **Valuation/Market Cap**: Not publicly disclosed
- **Key Metric**: $78.4M total funding; $9.9M annual revenue (LinkedIn estimate) [linkedin.com](https://www.linkedin.com/company/doss-com)
- **Notable Investors/Partners**: Theory Ventures (Tomasz Tunguz — Board Director), Madrona (Karan Mehandru — Board Director), Premji Invest, Contrary; acquired Genie in July 2025 [doss.com](https://www.doss.com/about) [linkedin.com](https://www.linkedin.com/company/doss-com)
- **Growth Signals**: 78 employees (+163% YoY headcount growth); operates in 5 countries (US, Philippines, Indonesia, Israel, Canada); Series B raised in March 2026 ($55M) after Series A in May 2025 ($18M) [linkedin.com](https://www.linkedin.com/company/doss-com)

## Competitive Advantages
- **First-principles rebuild of ERP**: Built from scratch in 2022 — no legacy code, no technical debt, fully AI-native architecture
- **Composable, no-code design**: Customers can modify workflows in minutes vs. months for legacy ERPs; fully configured solutions delivered in 4–6 months vs. industry standard 12–18 months with 55–75% failure rates [doss.com](https://www.doss.com/about)
- **Unified data model**: A single real-time database with flexible schema control eliminates the fragmentation that plagues traditional ERP stacks
- **Pricing downstream of value**: Engagement model engineered to maximize customer ROI rather than lock-in [doss.com](https://www.doss.com)

## Strategic Focus
- Continue replacing legacy ERP systems (Oracle NetSuite, SAP, Microsoft Dynamics) with an AI-native, modular alternative
- Expand across verticals (food & beverage, health & beauty, manufacturing, distribution) with composable, industry-specific configurations
- Deepen AI capabilities through Dossbot and automated operational intelligence
- Scale internationally from current 5-country footprint
- Build out the partner ecosystem and integrations network [doss.com](https://www.doss.com/about)

## Why Work Here
- **Engineering culture**: "Everyone is technical" — the company embraces a builder mindset, technical curiosity, and deep domain expertise regardless of role [doss.com](https://www.doss.com/careers)
- **Core values**: "Carry the rock" (persistence on hard problems), "Obsess over customers", "Execute with relentless urgency", "Raise the bar constantly" [doss.com](https://www.doss.com/about)
- **Team dynamic**: Small but rapidly growing (78 people, +163% YoY); employees work directly with engineers and product experts, not external consultants [doss.com](https://www.doss.com/about)
- **Location**: San Francisco-based; open roles listed include Backend Engineer, Product Engineer - AI Architect, Director of Partnerships, and Core Operations Associate [jobs.ashbyhq.com](https://jobs.ashbyhq.com/doss)
- **Notable alumni employers**: Team members have come from NetSuite, Databricks, Google, Verkada, ClickUp, Commure, Rubrik — strong engineering and enterprise SaaS pedigree [linkedin.com](https://www.linkedin.com/company/doss-com)

## Sources
1. [doss.com](https://www.doss.com) — Official website: product overview, platform modules, and value proposition
2. [doss.com/about](https://www.doss.com/about) — Company story, founding team, investors, and operating principles
3. [doss.com/careers](https://www.doss.com/careers) — Careers page: culture, guiding principles, and open roles
4. [linkedin.com/company/doss-com](https://www.linkedin.com/company/doss-com) — LinkedIn company profile: employee count, funding rounds, revenue estimate, headcount growth, and team composition
5. [jobs.ashbyhq.com/doss](https://jobs.ashbyhq.com/doss) — Active job listings and application portal

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