AI Engineer

True Classic is looking for an AI Engineer to design, build, and deploy AI-powered applications and workflows that solve real business problems across the company. In this hands-on, execution-focused role, you will work cross-functionally to integrate AI into how we acquire customers, maximize lifetime value, and streamline operations.

You’ll thrive here if you’re a problem solver first—someone who would rather ship solutions than wait on specs or build slide decks. You’re comfortable writing clean, production-ready code, moving quickly, and turning ambiguous problems into real, working systems that drive impact.

All True Classic roles are global and omni-channel, driving accountability across product categories, regions, and sales/marketing channels. This role will allow you to impact operations worldwide, ensuring alignment with our business objectives and delivering success across diverse markets and platforms.

What You Will Do

• Design and develop AI-powered applications, tools, and workflows that address high-leverage True Classic business problems

• Build AI agents, automation pipelines, and LLM-powered features across acquisition, retention, and operations

• Implement and integrate RESTful APIs for efficient, secure data access and exchange across our tech stack

• Write clean, maintainable, production-quality code across Python, React, Node.js, and other relevant frameworks

• Deploy and manage applications on AWS and other cloud platforms using modern CI/CD pipelines

• Partner with marketing, finance, operations, and commercial teams to solve their hardest problems

• Perform code reviews, enforce best practices, and drive continuous improvement

• Evaluate and implement AI tools that fit our stack — and stay at the frontier to bring new capabilities in

Cross-Functional Collaboration

• Marketing: AI-powered acquisition, creative testing, audience targeting, and lifecycle tools

• eCommerce & Product: Personalization, search, merchandising, and conversion optimization

• Operations: Automation of high-friction workflows across supply chain and fulfillment

• Finance & BI: Connect AI initiatives to revenue, margin, and efficiency KPIs

• Commercial Channels: Solutions that work across DTC, wholesale, marketplace, and international

Qualifications

• Professional experience in AI engineering or software development

• Bachelor's degree in Computer Science or related field

• Strong expertise in AI prompting, engineering workflows, and working with LLMs (Claude, OpenAI, or similar)

• Proficiency in Python, React, Node.js, Express.js — SQL/PostgreSQL a plus

• Hands-on experience with cloud and DevOps: AWS, Heroku, GitHub CI/CD

• Strong understanding of RESTful API design and implementation

• Systems thinker who can architect end-to-end solutions, not just point fixes

• Creative, tenacious, and hungry — thrives in ambiguity and moves with urgency

Preferred Qualifications

• Experience at a DTC, e-commerce, or consumer brand

• Familiarity with our stack: Meta, Google, TikTok, Klaviyo, Triple Whale, Shopify

• Experience with prompt engineering best practices for AI-driven workflows

• Track record deploying scalable AI solutions in production environments

Workplace Arrangment

This role is on-site, five days a week, based in Calabasas, California.

Why True Classic

• One of the fastest-growing consumer brands in the world — and we are just getting started

• AI-native from the top down: leadership is personally invested in AI transformation

• Industry-leading, innovative work you will not find inside most consumer brands

• Grow fast: scope, title, and comp scale with the company

• Real impact — your work shapes the experience of millions of customers worldwide

• Human, work-friendly environment where great people do their best work

Compensation and Benefits

Compensation

• $75k-$85k + bonus

Time Off

• Unlimited PTO and sick time

Health & Wellness

• Company-paid medical, dental, and vision insurance

• $100/month Wellness Stipend

• Free Employee Assistance Program (EAP)

Work & Growth Support

• $100/month Personal Workspace/Office Stipend

Perks

• $1,000/year True Classic merchandise allowance

• 401(k) plan with 3% company match