19days

Job Summary:
Yask is a company built out of Gitwit, focused on creating AI-native solutions for physical operations. The Founding AI Systems Engineer will be responsible for developing an adaptive intelligence system that enhances operational efficiency in retail and distribution environments by leveraging real-world data and user feedback.
Responsibilities:
• Audit the existing prototype and decide what to keep, what to rewrite, and how to turn it into an MVP architecture
• Design and implement agent orchestration patterns, memory/context layers, and retrieval pipelines for production use
• Build the feedback loops that let the system learn from user corrections and field signals
• Ship production-grade services: APIs, data pipelines, CI/CD, observability, and security fundamentals
• Instrument telemetry so we can see usage quality, drift, task success, and system performance
• Run fast experiments tied to real user behavior and measurable improvement
• Document architecture decisions and create onboarding artifacts for future engineers
• Work in-person with product, research, leadership, and customers to ground technical choices in field reality
Qualifications:
Required:
• Built and shipped agentic or LLM-driven systems in production
• Understanding of memory, context engineering, and RAG from experience
• Experience taking a system from prototype to production
• Comfortable making pragmatic trade-offs to ship and learn quickly
• Enjoy working directly with product, researchers, and users in person
• Enjoy ambiguity when it’s paired with real ownership
• Desire to be a founding engineer, not a ticket-taker
• See Bentonville as a strategic advantage, not a compromise
Company:
19Days funds promising companies and finds incredible founders, working in quarterly cycles to launch MVP products. Founded in 2021, the company is headquartered in Tulsa, USA, with a team of 11-50 employees. The company is currently Early Stage.