Founding Engineer (AI/ML) (f/m/x)

<p>We're looking for a <strong>Founding Engineer</strong> to help us build Otherworldly into the default way artists get booked.</p> <p><strong>Who we are 👪</strong></p> <p>We believe live music is one of the best things humans do, and that far more artists deserve to make a living from it than currently can. That's the opportunity we're building for.</p> <p>The industry still runs on cold emails and who-knows-who, and it's about to be rebuilt. AI now lets small teams achieve incredible things, and we intend to be the team that rebuilds this one.</p> <p>Otherworldly is an AI-native talent management and booking company. We run an actual roster, meaning real tours, real riders, real settlements, and we're turning everything we've learned into agentic infrastructure. That means a database of 250,000+ bookers worldwide and algorithmic pitching systems that get the right artist in front of the right promoter at scale.</p> <p>It's working. We closed our seed round with roster and revenue traction already built. Between us, we've managed No.1 artists and Grammy nominees, led strategy for household-name brands, and founded YC-backed companies.</p> <h2>Tasks</h2> <p>You'll be the engineering foundation of the platform. Your agents will hold real conversations with real bookers, negotiate real opportunities, and directly determine whether working artists get paid. Specifically:</p> <ul> <li>Architect and scale the agentic pitching system: multi-agent orchestration that researches bookers, drafts pitches, handles replies, and manages follow-up across thousands of parallel conversations</li> <li>Own the full LLM stack end-to-end (prompt architecture, retrieval, evaluation, deployment) with the autonomy of a founding hire and the accountability that comes with it</li> <li>Work directly with the founder to turn agency operations into product: every workflow we run manually today is a system you'll build tomorrow</li> <li>Ship fast. We'd rather see a good decision made quickly than a perfect one made late</li> </ul> <h2>Requirements</h2> <p><strong>You'll thrive here if</strong></p> <p>**🚢 You've shipped LLM systems that real people depend on.<br> **Not demos, not prototypes, but enterprise-scale systems handling real conversations with real consequences.</p> <p>**🧑‍💻You think about the customer, the product, and the technology simultaneously.<br> **We're building at the bleeding edge of AI, but we're not academics. Impact is what matters.</p> <p>**📈 You hold yourself to a high bar.<br> **You've shown ambition and excellence somewhere in your life - professionally, academically, or otherwise - and you want your work to matter.</p> <p>🎵<strong>You love music, or want to work for people who do.</strong><br> Everything we build exists to get artists booked, paid, and heard.</p> <p><strong>Strong plus ✅</strong></p> <ul> <li>Experience with outbound sales automation, CRM systems, or B2B communication tooling - our pitching infrastructure is, at its core, outbound automation done right</li> <li>Familiarity with fine-tuning workflows (LoRA, PEFT, instruction tuning)</li> <li>Background in NLP, information extraction, or dialogue systems</li> </ul> <h2>Benefits</h2> <ul> <li>Founding-level equity and genuine ownership of the core agentic architecture</li> <li>Direct influence on the product roadmap from day one</li> <li>A front-row seat to an industry being rebuilt, working from Berlin, one of the world's great music cities</li> <li>Access to one of the most exciting sectors on earth, working with musicians, venues, brands, and talent agents.</li> <li>Company laptop</li> <li>Health insurance</li> <li>Sports club memberships</li> <li>5 days/week in our Berlin office, working side-by-side with the whole team</li> <li>Blue Card EU Visa sponsorship if required</li> </ul> <p>Find more <a href="https://www.arbeitnow.com/english-speaking-jobs">English Speaking Jobs in Germany</a> on Arbeitnow</a>