The Mission:
- Design and deploy production AI systems that integrate cleanly across multiple backend services.
- Enable portfolio companies to embed AI at scale.
What You'll Do:
- Own system design reviews for AI initiatives across portfolio companies, identifying bottlenecks and recommending architectural improvements.
- Optimize production AI systems for cost and latency by profiling pipelines, implementing compression, and right-sizing compute infrastructure.
What We're Looking For:
- Proven track record architecting system integrations at scale that reduced integration time or standardized tooling across teams.
- Hands-on production experience deploying LLM applications, vector search systems, ML inference pipelines, or automated workflows.
- Deep understanding of integrating external AI tools into existing backend architectures without requiring core system rearchitecture.
Emergence
Emergence is a thematic holding company backed by the Pritzker Organization focused exclusively on acquiring and scaling category-defining software businesses. They invest in focused portfolios, specialized operating groups with deep domain expertise and proven playbooks.