Founding AI Engineer, Nirvana
New Business Unit
$144-220k
+ Equity
Commercial insurance & risk management
Open for applications
Commercial insurance & risk management
101-200 employees
Open for applications
$144-220k
+ Equity
101-200 employees
Company mission
To modernize commercial insurance and enable a safer world.
Role
Who you are
- Delighted by customer research. You’re excited about immersing yourself in the day to day of our customer base to build meaningful product experiences
- Thrive in challenging situations. You'll map out complex customer workflows and deploy end to end custom builds
- Strong communication skills. You will 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 are moving exceptionally fast in a space that hasn’t been innovated before. You’ll make decisions without incomplete data. You’ll test, learn, and scale
- 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
- If you’re interested in this role, but do not meet 100% of the qualifications listed above, we encourage you to apply. We'd like to consider you for this position and roles that may be a fit in the future
What the job involves
- We are building the Founding Engineering team for a new hypergrowth AI business unit
- Your work in this role will be to build AI Agents and AI Workflows that enable unique, tailored experiences for insurance use cases
- Your work will make the insurance industry move 10x faster, and unlock efficiency gains that’ll delight insurance professionals and their customers alike
- This is a high velocity, high impact role that will revolutionize the $1T+ global insurance market
Our take
Nirvana's insurance and risk management offerings are built to transform the commercial insurance industry, which is worth over $850 billion. It delivers predictive models that use real-time data and automation to generate instant quotes.
Targeting commercial fleets, the platform is powered by sensors that are already onboard most heavy trucks. This means that Nirvana's offering is accessible without vast onboarding fees, giving clients of all sizes the opportunity to protect themselves and improve customer safety.
While its initial focus is fleet insurance, Nirvana's offering is uniquely built to be highly scalable should the company expand into new verticals. It has invested substantially in product optimization to further its ability to accurately assess risk, and is an attractive option for companies who want to streamline what has been a traditionally slow process.
Kirsty
Company Specialist at Welcome to the Jungle
Company
Funding (last 2 of 5 rounds)
Dec 2025
$100m
SERIES D
Mar 2025
$80m
SERIES C
Total funding: $262m
Company benefits
- Comprehensive insurance
- HSA and FSA
- Paid parental leave
- Compassion leave
- 401(k) with employer match
- Flexible time off
- Paid holidays
- Continuous development opportunities
- WFH stipend
- Monthly wellness reimbursement
- Stock options
- Regular team events
- Region-specific perks
Company HQ
Chinatown, San Francisco, CA
Leadership
Rushil Goel
(Co-Founder & CEO)Previously worked as VP of Product and Fleet GM at Samsara. Was also Senior Director/GM at Ola, and Co-Founder and CTO of AirCare Labs.
Abhay Mitra
(Co-Founder & CTO)Held a variety of senior level positions at Rubrik, including Data Platform Lead and Senior Software Engineer. Former Data Scientist at Bidgely and Co-Founder of Atomicles Technologies.
Alex Carges
(Co-Founder & Head of Insurance Product)Former Chief Actuary at Root Insurance and Associate Actuary at Allied World Assurance. Held a variety of roles at The Hartford - including FCAS, Director and Actuary, and Innovation Manager.
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