This is a founding applied-AI role. You'll be building our core data pipeline and intelligence layer with the founding team from 0-1. You'll be tackling our largest technical challenges across technologies.
We are hiring in New York and Bangalore.
What you'll do
Design and build data pipelines that capture and turn high volumes of system activity into structured process data.
Turn raw activity streams into processes: sessionize event logs, cluster recurring sequences, and use LLMs with structured output to name, score, and conformance-check them.
Build the evaluation backbone from scratch: stand up synthetic data generation pipelines that produce ground-truth datasets, and use them to measure and improve the quality of our discovery pipeline and model outputs.
Own data quality and privacy.
Partner closely with the founders and the rest of engineering to ship features end to end.
What we're looking for
1–4 years of experience in data engineering, AI/ML engineering, or backend work with a data focus (strong internships and projects count).
Strong in Python and/or TypeScript, comfortable in SQL, and able to build data pipelines you can trust — moving, transforming, and validating data.
Hands-on experience working with LLMs — structured output, prompting, and wrangling non-determinism — whether at work or in serious side projects.
A practical sense for evaluation: you know that "it looks right" isn't the same as "it's measurably right," and you're excited to build the data and harnesses that prove it.
Care about data privacy and handling sensitive information responsibly.
Comfort with ambiguity and a real appetite to own a hard, open-ended problem.
Nice to have
Background in process mining, sequence / event-log analysis, or workflow analytics — a genuine differentiator for this role.
Embeddings and vector search (pgvector) or semantic retrieval.
Familiarity with cloud infrastructure.
Any prior early-stage startup experience.
Degree in computer science or a related field.
About Ritually
Ritually is building the definitive process discovery platform for back office work. Our product fuses underutilized system telemetry with computer vision to help large enterprise and scaling mid-market companies deeply understand and reimagine their highest value and most repetitive processes for a world where humans and agents work together. We’re based in New York.
We believe deeply in trust (of our customers and each other), craft, customer obsession, and speed. This guides everything we do.
You’ll be joining an AI-native, fast-moving, and repeat founding team. Ritually’s founders, Ari Winkleman and Rachel Bush, previously built and exited a startup (Involvio) to Cisco, one of the world’s largest enterprise IT companies, where they ran enterprise AI incubation teams. The company is funded and working with design partners.
Benefits & Perks
Equity
Medical
Flexible time off
Mac
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