Parahelp

The AI support agent for software companies

Founding AI Engineer

$150K - $250K / 0.50% - 1.00%
Location
San Francisco, CA, US
Job Type
Full-time
Experience
3+ years
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Anker Ryhl
Anker Ryhl
Founder

About the role

What you’ll do

You'll build and improve the AI agents powering Parahelp–applying latest techniques, running evaluations, building retrieval pipelines, and optimizing for speed and cost.

You might be a great fit if:

  • You've built production-grade LLM systems and agent architectures
  • You have strong software engineering fundamentals and deep AI/ML knowledge
  • You proactively automate your own workflow with AI tools
  • You're ambitious and thrive in fast-paced environments
  • You're always trying to move faster and find shortcuts

Our values

Before applying, please read these values and make sure you're fully aligned with them:

  • Customers first. We succeed when our customers succeed.
  • Revenue growth is our key metric. Right now, companies are redefining how they work by implementing AI, and Parahelp must be the product they pick to help them. Revenue growth indicates if we are.
  • Clock speed is our moat. We win because we continue to ship the best product the fastest.
  • We are intense. We spend 70-80 hours a week in the office and, more often than not, work nights and weekends.
  • We are shameless. We put the company's success and priorities ahead of our own.
  • We take ownership. We require everyone to care a lot - taking responsibility and following through.
  • We are always learning. We truly want to become better every day.

About the interview

  1. First round (30 minutes)
  2. Coffee chat (1 hour)
  3. Technical deep dive + Take home (1 hour)
  4. Final onsite (3 hours)

About Parahelp

At Parahelp, we build and deploy frontier AI Agents to automate customer support work for leading software companies (like Perplexity, Framer, Replit, and HeyGen). Our Agents integrate deeply with companies' infrastructure (including tools like Zendesk, Slack, Stripe, Retool, and Linear) to perform work end-to-end.

We're building Parahelp because we believe context—not intelligence—will be the bottleneck for the future of AI coworkers.

Focus right now: Building AI coworkers that can fully perform the work of a human support agent at a software company.

Mission: To build AI coworkers that leverage the context from customer conversations to automate work across support, success, product, and engineering.

Our momentum:

  • Launched in August 2024.
  • Working with leading software companies like Perplexity, Framer, Replit, and HeyGen.
  • Backed by Y Combinator, Paul Graham, Perplexity Fund, Hidden Capital, and founders of Replit, Framer, Calm, ElevenLabs, Runway, Speak, Zendesk, etc.
Parahelp
Founded:2024
Batch:S24
Team Size:5
Status:
Active
Location:San Francisco
Founders
Mads Liechti
Mads Liechti
Founder
Anker Ryhl
Anker Ryhl
Founder