Careers

Work on consequential problems, alongside senior people.

DaVinci AI is a small, senior practice. We grow carefully and only when we find people who raise the bar.

Why join us

The version of consulting we wanted to work in.

We’ve all worked at firms where scope mattered more than craft, where the slide deck mattered more than the system, where staffing economics shaped the work. DaVinci AI is the firm we wanted to work in.

01
You will own real work, end to end.
No pyramid staffing. You’ll scope, build, ship and operate, with the autonomy and accountability that implies.
02
You will work with senior people.
Every engagement is led by practitioners who’ve done the work for a decade. You’ll learn from them and ship next to them.
03
You will say no.
We turn down engagements that aren’t set up to succeed. We’d rather walk away than ship work we won’t stand behind.
04
You will be expected to write.
Clear writing is the closest thing to a superpower in this profession. We invest in it, internally and publicly.

Open roles

Roles we’re hiring for.

We’re a small firm and we hire slowly. If you don’t see your role listed but think you’d be a fit, send us a note anyway.

Macro circuit detail, a visual stand-in for the technical work we do

How to apply

A short, direct process.

01
Email us
Send a short note and your resume or a link to your work, no cover letter required. careers@davinciai.dev
02
A conversation
Forty-five minutes with two of us. We’ll talk about the work you’re proud of and the work you’re tired of.
03
A working session
Two hours, paid. We’ll work on a representative problem together so we both get a real signal, no abstract puzzles.
04
Decision
Within a week. We don’t leave candidates waiting.

What we offer

The unglamorous things that actually matter.

Compensation is competitive and transparent. The things below are what we’ve found make the difference between a job and a career.

Compensation

Senior-market base + performance bonus
Equity participation for senior roles
Transparent pay bands within levels
Annual review tied to scoped goals

Time & flexibility

Distributed-first, with deliberate in-person time
Generous PTO with a minimum we enforce
No expectation of weekend or after-hours work
Sabbatical after sustained tenure

Learning & development

Annual learning stipend
Conference and training budget
Internal practice library and review
Mentoring inside and across disciplines

Health & benefits

Comprehensive medical, dental and vision
Mental-health and wellbeing support
Retirement plan with company match
Parental leave for all parents

Tools & environment

You pick the machine and the operating system
Reasonable budget for home office
Subscriptions to the tools you actually use
Engineering-grade access to LLM tooling

Career development

Clear levels and progression criteria
Quarterly career conversations
Cross-discipline rotations encouraged
Speaking and writing support

A week in the practice

What a week tends to look like.

No two weeks are identical, engagements vary widely. But the rhythm below is the closest thing to a representative week for a senior practitioner here.

Mon
Engagement working session
Half-day working session with the client team. Whiteboarding, design review, prioritization for the week. The rest of the day is engagement work, building, modeling, reviewing.
Tue
Focus day
A deliberately protected day for deep work. No internal meetings unless something is on fire. Most production-quality work gets done on focus days.
Wed
Cross-engagement craft session
A weekly internal session where practitioners across engagements share patterns, problems and prototypes. Where our internal practice library actually grows.
Thu
Stakeholder review
A working review with engagement stakeholders, what shipped, what’s next, what trade-offs are on the table. We deliberately keep these short and decision-oriented.
Fri
Documentation, writing, prep
Friday afternoons are for writing, documentation, the next blog post, a memo to leadership, the design doc for next week. The discipline that compounds.

Frequently asked

Questions we hear, answered honestly.

Are these positions remote?

Distributed-first. Most of our work can be done from anywhere in North America. We bring teams together in person for kickoffs, periodic working sessions and offsites, and we go on-site when an engagement calls for it.

Do you sponsor visas?

For senior roles where we have a strong match, yes, we’ll walk you through what’s feasible during the conversation. We’d rather be honest upfront than discover a blocker three steps in.

What does the working session look like?

A representative two-hour problem from our practice area, not an abstract puzzle. You’ll work with one or two of us, walk through your reasoning, and produce a small artifact (a design sketch, a short prototype, a written analysis). It’s paid, and we use it to calibrate both directions.

How junior is “junior”?

We don’t currently hire entry-level. The shape of our work and the size of our teams mean a more senior baseline is the right fit today. We’ll revisit as the firm grows and as we have the bandwidth to mentor at depth.

How long does the process take?

Roughly two to three weeks end-to-end. We don’t leave candidates waiting and we don’t do five-round loops.

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