Lead AI Engineer

About Carzato

Carzato builds the digital retailing software that powers how people actually buy cars online. For eight years, our platform has run on dealer and OEM websites with configuration, financing, trade-in valuation, and new vehicle reservations. Today it operates across more than 1,000 dealerships.

Our next release rebuilds that experience around AI: natural-language vehicle research and conversational search, grounded in live inventory, pricing, and incentive data. We've done the research, modeled the economics, and set the architecture. It launches early next year.

That's the distribution problem most AI products never solve, and we already have 1,000+ sites ready to run it on day one. What we need now is the engineer who builds it and the platform underneath it.

The Short Version

Carzato has been building automotive digital retailing software for eight years. Our next release is AI-native, conversational vehicle research and search grounded in live inventory and pricing data. It's in active development now, launching early next year, and it ships across our entire dealer network at once.

We're hiring a Lead AI Engineer to build it and own the platform beneath it.

What You'll Actually Do

• Design and build RAG pipelines against inventory and pricing data that changes daily , such as retrieval, chunking, grounding, re-ranking
• Own the AI platform architecture: model routing, provider integration, caching, fallback behavior
• Build the backend services, APIs, and data infrastructure AI features depend on
• Define evaluation and monitoring so we catch quality drift before dealers and shoppers feel it
• Manage cost and latency as first-class constraints , such as our volume, per-session economics decide what's viable
• Write specs and coordinate delivery with our offshore development team
• Work directly with product, design, and leadership to move from validated direction to shipped product

What We Need From You

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