Applied AI Engineer

Zafran.io   All Jobs Applied AI Engineer Business Development Tel Aviv Senior Full-time Description Zafran is looking for an Applied AI Engineer to join our Business Operations team.In this role, you will be the internal builder who turns operational friction into working software. You will work directly with business teams — Sales, Marketing, Customer Success, Support, Finance, and HR to identify where AI can make a meaningful difference, then design and ship the solutions that make it happen.Claude is our primary AI platform used across the company via claude.ai, the Anthropic API, and integrated into our automation workflows. A core part of this role is going deep on Claude: designing system prompts, building Claude-powered automations, developing reusable skills and artifacts that scale horizontally across teams, and using Claude Code to accelerate delivery.This role is ideal for someone deeply fluent in working with LLMs who is as comfortable in a stakeholder conversation as they are in a code editor, and who measures success by whether things actually work better, not by the elegance of the implementation.You will have real ownership: decide what to work on, build it end-to-end, ship it to production, and see whether it moved the needle.About Zafran:Our Mission: To stop the exploitation of vulnerabilities, everywhere.What makes us different: Zafran de-risks 90% of critical vulnerabilities overnight across your hybrid environment and utilizes Agentic Capabilities and your existing security tools to rapidly mitigate and remediate the 10% most likely to be exploited.​​Who’s behind us: Zafran is backed by Menlo Ventures, Sequoia Capital, Cyberstarts, and a deep belief that cybersecurity should move as fast as attackers do. We’re one of the fastest-growing companies in the industry, scaling to meet demand from the world’s most advanced, security-obsessed organizations.We’re serious about our mission- so expect work that matters, teammates who challenge and inspire you, and plenty of fun along the way!What you will do:Build & EngineerTake end-to-end responsibility for what you build — from architecture decisions through production deployment, rollout, and scale-upDesign and implement Claude-powered solutions: system prompts, RAG pipelines, AI agents, multi-step automations, and tool-integrated workflowsBuild reusable Claude skills and artifacts that can scale horizontally across teams and use casesUse Claude Code to accelerate development and maintain high output qualityPick the right tool for the job — code, no-code, or LLM-native — and keep systems documented and maintainableIntegrate solutions with Zafran's existing stack: Salesforce, Zendesk, Workato, Slack, and Google WorkspaceBuild for production: reliable, observable, and maintainable by non-engineering stakeholdersEmbed With the BusinessWork directly with Sales, Marketing, Customer Success, Support, Finance, and HR to identify and scope high-leverage AI opportunitiesTranslate ambiguous business needs into concrete engineering plans; own both the solution definition and the buildIdentify patterns, recurring pain points, and improvement opportunities — then build something that fixes themHelp business stakeholders develop AI fluency and become stronger partners over timeDrive Internal AI StrategyHelp shape and execute Zafran's internal AI roadmap, prioritizing initiatives with measurable operational impactOwn the development of reusable, horizontal AI capabilities that raise the bar for the whole company — not just one teamStay up to date with the Claude platform and broader AI tooling landscape; bring relevant innovations in-house quicklyDocument what you build and why, creating institutional knowledge that scales beyond you Requirements 4–6+ years of hands-on experience in software engineering with a track record of shipping production systemsStrong Python...