Job Description
Over the past 2 years, Chariot has grown 1300% YoY. As we scale from tens of thousands of nonprofits to hundreds of thousands, the systems behind our GTM, Ops, and Compliance teams need to evolve from manual and semi-automated to fully automated, well-architected, and engineered.
That's where the Applied AI Engineer role comes in. You will build our internal brain: the engine helping our entire company adopt cutting-edge software and tools (think agent-based workflows) that will power our next phase of growth. The goal is to entirely rethink how work gets done in the first place, rather than to simply bolt AI onto the way we work today.
If you want to configure simple CRM layouts all day, this is not for you. If you want to break down whether a CRM is even needed in the age of AI, and then build a prototype of the workflows that become possible without one, you're going to love this role.
⚒️ What You’ll Do
- Turn strategy into systems: Work directly with senior leadership and cross-functional teams to translate company strategy into automated workflows.
- Build and ship real tools: Write code, build AI agents, and put together internal systems, whether that means taking something from v1 to v100 or building it fully from scratch.
- Power our growth engine: Build programmatic outbound and custom internal tools that let our GTM, Ops, and Compliance teams move faster as we scale.
- Question the defaults: Don't simply automate how things are done today. We invite you to challenge whether the process (or the tool) should exist at all, and prototype what's possible instead.
- Run it in production: Build and orchestrate agents that work well and keep improving in production, with the real data and real teammates who rely on them every day. Not just cool demos.
👤About You
- Agent builder: You know how to build and orchestrate a set of agents that work well and continue to improve in production (not just cool demos).
- Fluent in the modern AI stack: You've built with tools like OpenClaw, Claude Managed Agents, and Claude Code, and you understand and can build architecture such as Thin Harness, Fat Skills x.com.
- Technical foundation: You have 3+ years in Engineering, Growth Product Management, or technical RevOps. You write code (Python, JS, SQL) and you're comfortable with APIs.
- Bias to ship: You ship v1 today and iterate tomorrow.
- Owner mentality: You behave like an owner.
- In NYC: You're based in NYC or willing to be. This is an in-person role (with WFH Fridays).
The ideal candidate is a self-starter who cares deeply about simplicity, usability, and shipping, and wants to use their skills to make a tangible impact in the world. At Chariot, you'll have the rare opportunity to work on 0 to 1 products, contribute to a thoughtful and fast-moving team, and shape the future of how philanthropy happens online.
📚 What you’ll get from Chariot
At Chariot, we are building modern, end-to-end payment infrastructure making donors' lives easier, and nonprofits' lives better. $600B gets donated to charity each year in the US and the existing technology/infrastructure was still built for our grandparents generation. Chariot is here to change that.
- Traction. Annualizing over $1.8B in payment volume through Chariot. Tens of thousands of nonprofits already onboarded including American Cancer Society, Memorial Sloan Kettering Cancer Center, and University of Pennsylvania.
- Impact: That money services nonprofits working in homelessness, health, education, the environment, and so much more.
- Market opportunity: Billion dollar revenue opportunity. Fintech company operating in an untapped $600B market
- The Team. >30% of Charioteers are former founders. NYC office, in-person Monday through Thursday, WFH Friday. The public handbook chariot-1.gitbook.io shows how we operate.
❤️ Employee Benefits
🏥 Healthcare: Comprehensive healthcare, including options that are 100% covered by Chariot for you
🌴 Time-Off: 18 days PTO and 13 holidays - take the time off that you want and need to relax and recharge
👶 Parental Leave: 100% paid parental leave, including 12 weeks for primary caregivers
🍽️ Team Lunches: Weekly team lunches
🌯 Dinner on Chariot: Free dinner every day at office past 8pm
🎉 Team Events: Monthly team building events
💎Employee-friendly equity: 2 year exercise window and double-trigger acceleration
😎 Company Retreats: To get away - we all convene 2-3x / year company retreats
🎁 Matching Gifts: Matching DAFs and daily charitable giving through GoodToday goodtoday.org
💰Pay Transparency
Range: $180,000 - $230,000 + Equity Upside.
Requirements
Must-haves
What You’ll Do
Turn strategy into systems: Work directly with senior leadership and cross-functional teams to translate company strategy into automated workflows.
Build and ship real tools: Write code, build AI agents, and put together internal systems, whether that means taking something from v1 to v100 or building it fully from scratch.
Power our growth engine: Build programmatic outbound and custom internal tools that let our GTM, Ops, and Compliance teams move faster as we scale.
Question the defaults: Don't simply automate how things are done today. We invite you to challenge whether the process (or the tool) should exist at all, and prototype what's possible instead.
Run it in production: Build and orchestrate agents that work well and keep improving in production, with the real data and real teammates who rely on them every day. Not just cool demos.
Agent builder: You know how to build and orchestrate a set of agents that work well and continue to improve in production (not just cool demos).
Technical foundation: You have 3+ years in Engineering, Growth Product Management, or technical RevOps. You write code (Python, JS, SQL) and you're comfortable with APIs.
Bias to ship: You ship v1 today and iterate tomorrow.
Owner mentality: You behave like an owner.
In NYC: You're based in NYC or willing to be. This is an in-person role (with WFH Fridays).
What you’ll get from Chariot
Impact: That money services nonprofits working in homelessness, health, education, the environment, and so much more.
Market opportunity: Billion dollar revenue opportunity. Fintech company operating in an untapped $600B market
The Team. >30% of Charioteers are former founders. NYC office, in-person Monday through Thursday, WFH Friday. The public handbook https://chariot-1.gitbook.io/public-employee-handbook shows how we operate.
Employee Benefits
Healthcare: Comprehensive healthcare, including options that are 100% covered by Chariot for you
Time-Off: 18 days PTO and 13 holidays - take the time off that you want and need to relax and recharge
Team Lunches: Weekly team lunches
Dinner on Chariot: Free dinner every day at office past 8pm
Team Events: Monthly team building events
Employee-friendly equity: 2 year exercise window and double-trigger acceleration
Company Retreats: To get away - we all convene 2-3x / year company retreats
Matching Gifts: Matching DAFs and daily charitable giving through GoodToday https://goodtoday.org/
Nice-to-haves
None flagged.
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