Founding AI Engineer

Who we are:

Cooper AI is building AI for commercial insurance, taking the manual, time-consuming work off professionals' plates so they can focus on what actually matters: serving clients and growing their business. Cooper works directly inside the tools teams already use, turning these workflows into fast, automated experiences that save hours every week and unlock meaningful efficiency gains.

Backed by Lightspeed, General Catalyst, and Valor, Cooper AI is building from the ground up to modernize a $1T+ global insurance industry.

About the role:

We're hiring the Founding Engineering team for a new hyper-growth AI business unit. You’ll build AI agents and AI workflows that enable unique, tailored experiences for insurance use cases - so insurance professionals can move 10x faster and unlock major efficiency gains. This is a high-velocity, high-impact role that will revolutionize the $1T+ global insurance market.

About you:

• Full stack engineering experience. You’ll be coding across the stack and are comfortable in different languages and platforms.
• Hands-on with modern AI stacks (LLMs, VLMs, ASR / TTS, vector stores, orchestration, evals). You’re pragmatic about trade-offs across latency, cost, reliability and safety.
• Thrive in challenging situations. You’ll map out complex customer workflows and deploy end to end custom builds.
• Strong communication skills. You’ll partner with Product, GTM, Design and Marketing teams, as well as directly interface with end users.
• High velocity and ownership in an ambiguous environment. We’re moving exceptionally fast in a space that hasn’t been innovated before.

Benefits:

• Competitive salary & equity
• Medical, dental & vision insurance
• Monthly wellness stipend
• 401k with company match
• Unlimited PTO
• Company sponsored lunch 5x per week
• Off sites, happy hours, and team building events

Compensation Range: $180K - $220K