About Starling Strategy

Starling Strategy specializes in strategic planning, communications, advocacy, program design, and digital services. We believe AI is an amazing tool to help organizers better understand and serve communities of people.

Our highest impact often comes from focusing on qualitative and nuanced data analysis, and our approach is deliberate, emphasizing human judgment. This enables us to better understand and serve our clients' communities while achieving strategic objectives.

Our AI Development Philosophy

• Focus on explainable outputs with visibility into decision-making processes
• Human-AI collaboration through transparent interfaces and clear feedback loops
• Privacy-first architecture, open-source preference
• Development of tools that augment human capabilities and decisions
• Implementation of human-in-the-loop validation for critical decisions
• Robust monitoring and logging to ensure system accountability
• Clear documentation of model limitations and potential biases
• Human expertise is integral - our clients know their data better than anyone

AI Systems Engineer

We are looking for an engineering-focused colleague to design data architecture, ETL flows, model tuning and integrations such as RAG interfaces.

This role requires disciplined systems thinking to build maintainable infrastructure connecting document processing, AI analysis, and secure data distribution. We are looking for a demonstrated curiosity about ETL, document analysis, and AI model tuning. Help us turn our current bespoke projects into a playbook for future clients.

Key Responsibilities

• Design and implement ETL pipelines
• Architect cloud-native systems supporting AI model training/iteration
• Implement monitoring/validation systems for AI outputs
• Create scalable data storage solutions supporting growth