Whatnot
Consumer · Live shopping marketplace
Consumer · Live shopping marketplace
Whatnot has 33 active AI-related job listings, with a significant focus on agents, which accounts for 64% of their open roles. The majority of these positions are within the Engineering function, and all hiring is currently concentrated in the United States. Their technical needs are reflected in frequent tags such as model_serving, inference_infra, and agent_orchestration. In the last 30 days, Whatnot posted 2 new AI roles, representing a 78% decrease compared to the previous 30-day period.
Currently tracking 20 active AI roles, down 31% versus the prior 4 weeks. Primary focus: Agent · Engineering. Salary range $245k–$345k (avg $296k).
Whatnot currently has 9 active AI-related roles in our index. The most common open titles are: AI Tooling Engineer, Data Scientist, Risk & Fraud, Engineering Manager, Feed, Machine Learning Engineer, Growth, Software Engineer, AI Dev Tools. Most positions are in Engineering.
Whatnot's active AI hiring is concentrated in: agents (89%), application (11%). These categories follow a seven-stage AI lifecycle: data, pre-training, post-training, serving infrastructure, agents, evaluation, and application.
Whatnot is hiring AI talent in: United States (9 roles).
Job postings at Whatnot most frequently reference: agent orchestration, recommender systems, search ranking, model serving, rag.
In the past 30 days, Whatnot has posted 2 new AI-related roles.
| Title | Stage | AI score |
|---|---|---|
| AI Tooling Engineer Senior AI Engineer to build internal tools, prototypes, and business workflows that put AI into the hands of every team at Whatnot. This role involves owning ambiguous, cross-org bets end-to-end, shipping working software fast, hardening what works, and scaling how Whatnot gets value out of AI. The engineer will define reusable patterns and shared infrastructure, integrate AI tools with internal systems, and stay ahead of the AI landscape. This is a builder role focused on applying off-the-shelf AI, not model training or research. | Agent | 8 |
| Machine Learning Engineer, Growth Machine Learning Engineer focused on driving top-of-funnel growth and first-time buyer success for a livestream shopping platform. This role will build and own ML models for personalization in onboarding and user targeting, impacting buyer growth and first-time user conversion. | Ship |
| 7 |
| Software Engineer, AI Dev Tools Software Engineer to build and own AI tooling for the engineering organization, focusing on AI coding agents and assistants. This role involves building infrastructure, workflows, and orchestration systems for AI agents to operate within the company's codebase and processes, enabling both engineers and non-engineers to leverage AI tools effectively. The role requires strong software engineering skills and familiarity with current AI development tools. | Agent | 7 |
| Software Engineer, Trust & Risk Software Engineer role focused on building systems for trust, risk, fraud, and integrity within a consumer marketplace. The role involves designing and developing production algorithms and infrastructures to mitigate systemic risks, protect users, and prevent abuse. It requires experience in event-driven pipelines, detection frameworks, and a data-driven mindset, with a preference for experience in Trust and Risk or Fraud domains. Explicit data science or machine learning experience is a plus. | Agent | 7 |
| Software Engineer, Fraud Software Engineer role focused on building and deploying ML-driven systems for fraud detection, prevention, and intervention in a livestream shopping marketplace. Responsibilities include developing intelligent user graphs, training and deploying traditional ML and LLM models, creating scalable data pipelines, real-time inference systems, and human-in-the-loop systems for continuous refinement. The role emphasizes analyzing behavioral and adversarial data to identify emerging fraud trends and evolving systems to combat them. | AgentData | 7 |
| Technical Program Manager Technical Program Manager to work across Engineering and Product teams to drive high-impact initiatives and help scale operations. This role will focus on programs improving execution, alignment, and velocity across the organization, including product, infrastructure, and AI initiatives. The TPM will define requirements, technical roadmaps, and improve engineering processes. Experience with AI tools like Claude Code and Cursor is required for efficiency gains. | — | 5 |
| Technical Program Manager Technical Program Manager to work across Engineering and Product teams to drive high-impact initiatives and help scale operations. This role will focus on programs improving execution, alignment, and velocity across the organization, including product, infrastructure, and AI initiatives. The TPM will define requirements, technical roadmaps, and improve engineering processes. Experience with AI tools like Claude Code and Cursor is required for efficiency gains. | — | 5 |
| Engineering Manager, Feed Engineering Manager for the Feed team, responsible for building and scaling Whatnot's feeds and recommendation systems, with a focus on using feed visibility to help small sellers and new categories grow. The role involves leading backend engineers, owning system design, and partnering with product and ML teams to deliver discovery experiences. | Agent | 5 |
| Software Engineer, Data Software Engineer, Data at Whatnot, responsible for the retrieval platform powering next-gen systems. Focuses on defining technical direction, leading development, and ensuring scalability and performance. Integrates data systems, optimizing machine learning, real-time analytics, stream processing, and content understanding. | — | 5 |
| Software Engineer, CX Software Engineer, CX at Whatnot, a livestream shopping platform. This role focuses on building a world-class Customer Support platform, including user-facing experiences, scaling internal infrastructure, and designing AI-powered automations to handle customer issues. The engineer will lead solutions end-to-end, translating business problems into technical solutions and driving delivery. | Agent | 5 |
| Software Engineer, Horizontal Ops Software Engineer, Horizontal Ops at Whatnot, focusing on building internal operations tooling and AI-powered automations for customer support and trust & safety workflows. The role involves developing a workflow engine for intelligent, automated resolutions at scale. | Agent | 5 |
| Software Engineer, Logistics Platform Software Engineer, Logistics Platform at Whatnot. This role focuses on building and improving backend systems, APIs, and internal platform interfaces for logistics workflows. Responsibilities include data quality, shipment state normalization, observability, and operational debugging. The role emphasizes product-minded platform work with external impact on buyer/seller experience and operational efficiency. The engineer will partner with various teams to solve real-world logistics problems and improve data correctness and timeliness. A thoughtful approach to AI usage in engineering is encouraged. | — | 5 |
| Data Scientist, Risk & Fraud Data Scientist focused on risk and fraud detection for a livestream shopping platform. The role involves translating data into actionable recommendations, defining KPIs, analyzing existing methods, partnering with ML engineers to develop anti-fraud practices, designing and evaluating experiments, developing causal inference frameworks, building data products, and collaborating cross-functionally to shape fraud strategy. Requires advanced SQL, Python/R, A/B testing, and causal inference experience. | Agent | 5 |
| Engineering Manager, Orders Platform Engineering Manager for Whatnot's Orders Platform, responsible for leading a team that builds and operates systems supporting hundreds of millions of orders globally. The role focuses on reliability, scale, and correctness of the core order lifecycle, partnering with various internal teams and ensuring customer experiences are seamless. | — | 0 |
| Engineering Manager, Backend Platforms Whatnot is seeking an Engineering Manager for their Backend Platforms team. This role will own the strategy and execution of backend systems powering their livestream shopping platform, including Python and Elixir cores, realtime services, and the storage/database layer. The manager will lead senior ICs and potentially other managers, focusing on platform reliability, performance, and developer ergonomics. The role requires strong technical grounding in backend systems at scale and experience managing engineering teams. | — | 0 |
| Trust & Risk Team Lead Lead a team of Trust & Risk agents and specialists, focusing on scaling operational frameworks, managing daily workflows, and improving user trust by reducing wrongful enforcement. This role involves managing direct reports, owning execution of review processes, building team and operational frameworks, and partnering with Data, Policy, Product, and Legal to measure and improve outcomes through insights and tooling requirements. | — | 0 |
| Software Engineer, Video Software Engineer, Video role at Whatnot, focusing on building and enhancing the platform's video and livestream capabilities. This includes implementing measurement and observability, developing a video recording pipeline, and creating seller tools to improve user engagement and sales. The role also involves advancing video features, informing long-term video strategy, and evaluating new video providers. | — | 0 |
| Data Scientist, Finance Data Scientist focused on finance functions, responsible for data ownership, building production-quality data products, dashboards, and KPIs, analyzing business drivers for margin improvement, and collaborating on data engineering for financial datasets. Requires expertise in data tooling, visualization, business intelligence, expert SQL, and a background in finance or fintech. | — | 0 |
| Engineering Manager, Buyer Engineering Manager for the Buyer Experience team at Whatnot, focusing on scaling Seller Provided Support (SPS) to enable sellers to resolve post-purchase issues. This role involves end-to-end ownership of business outcomes, technical strategy, and execution for a full-stack team, aiming to reduce refund rates and improve customer satisfaction. | — | 0 |
| Corporate Security Operations Manager Whatnot is seeking an experienced Corporate Security Operations Manager to oversee the physical safety of its people across offices, live events, and field engagements. This role involves both strategic program development and tactical execution, including managing third-party vendors, developing security playbooks, and assessing/mitigating risks for various engagements. The position requires strong leadership, cross-functional collaboration, and the ability to operate effectively in a fast-paced environment. | — | 0 |
| Customer Success Engineer, Enterprise Engineering The Enterprise Engineering team at Whatnot supports large sellers by building systems and tooling for integrations with e-commerce platforms, WMS, ERPs, and accounting software. This role focuses on delivering seamless data synchronization, architecting enterprise-grade systems, and improving internal tooling for customer support. The ideal candidate has experience in high-growth startups, can work across the stack, and has strong communication and problem-solving skills. | — | 0 |
| IT Systems & Ops Engineer IT Support Engineer role focused on managing the IT support queue, administering user accounts, executing onboarding/offboarding, providing local office support, building workflow automations, and contributing to IT projects. The role involves using tools like Okta, Google Workspace, Jira Service Management, and iPaaS platforms, with a focus on meeting SLAs and improving efficiency. | — | 0 |
| Warehouse Agent - FTC This role is for a Warehouse Agent at Whatnot, a livestream shopping platform. The primary responsibilities involve processing inbound and outbound items, authenticating collectibles, managing inventory, packaging orders, and resolving customer issues. The role requires physical endurance, knowledge of Microsoft Office and various operational systems, and a proactive problem-solving attitude. It is not directly related to AI/ML development. | — | 0 |
| Trust & Safety Agent This role focuses on maintaining the safety and integrity of a livestream shopping platform by identifying risks, enforcing policies, and protecting the buyer and seller experience. Responsibilities include reviewing suspicious behavior, conducting transaction-level reviews, identifying trends, communicating with customers, and investigating cases. The role requires a customer-first attitude, problem-solving skills, and experience with customer-facing systems. | — | 0 |
| Fraud Agent This role focuses on investigating and mitigating fraud on the Whatnot platform, identifying fraud patterns, and developing prevention measures. It involves transaction reviews, customer communication regarding fraud, and trend analysis to reduce financial risk and minimize impact on user experience. | — | 0 |
| Data Engineer, Notifications Data Engineer on the Notifications Platform responsible for owning and evolving high-volume data systems that support product development, experimentation, and machine learning. | — | 0 |
| Leadership Recruiter This role is for a Leadership Recruiter at Whatnot, a fast-growing livestream shopping platform. The recruiter will be responsible for hiring executive-level talent (Director, VP/C-Suite, L8+ engineers) across Technology and Business functions. Key responsibilities include developing executive recruiting processes, managing full-cycle searches, building talent pipelines, and acting as a strategic advisor to executives. The role requires 10+ years of recruiting experience, with at least 5 years focused on in-house leadership hiring at high-growth startups. | — | 0 |
| Staff Software Engineer Staff Software Engineer at Whatnot, a fast-growing livestream shopping platform. This role involves leading the design and evolution of large, distributed systems, owning ambiguous technical problems, and acting as a technical lead for major initiatives. The focus is on building and scaling the core marketplace infrastructure, not directly on AI/ML model development. | — | 0 |
| Payroll Analyst This role is for a Payroll Analyst at Whatnot, a livestream shopping platform. The analyst will manage end-to-end US payroll operations using Workday and ADP, ensuring compliance with regulations, managing multi-state payroll, and supporting audits. Responsibilities include payroll processing, compliance, system management, reconciliation, reporting, and process improvement. | — | 0 |
| Trust & Safety Agent, 2026 New Grad This role focuses on maintaining the safety and integrity of the Whatnot platform by reviewing suspicious behavior, conducting transaction reviews, identifying trends, and communicating with customers. It involves investigating trust and risk cases, working with other departments, and representing the company with integrity. The role requires a customer-first mindset and the ability to learn new systems quickly. | — | 0 |
| Early Talent Community - Software Engineering This is an early talent community outreach for future software engineering roles at Whatnot, a livestream shopping platform. It is not a direct application but a way for students to express interest and receive updates. | — | 0 |
| iOS Engineer Whatnot is hiring iOS Engineers to build and design mobile experiences and systems for their livestream shopping platform, focusing on buyer growth, content, security, app platform, and customer experience. The role involves developing features using Swift and SwiftUI, collaborating cross-functionally, and contributing to mobile infrastructure. | — | 0 |
| Software Engineer, Merchant Tooling Software Engineer on the Merchant Tooling team, focused on building scalable, reliable systems for large sellers to manage their merchandise, including integrations with e-commerce platforms, WMS, ERPs, and accounting software. The role involves designing and implementing bi-directional data synchronization and enterprise-grade systems. | — | 0 |
| Engineering Manager, Customer Experience Engineering Manager for Customer Experience at Whatnot, focusing on scaling Seller Provided Support (SPS) to help sellers resolve post-purchase issues, reduce refunds, and improve buyer/seller trust. This role involves end-to-end ownership of business outcomes, technical strategy, and execution for a full-stack team, aiming to build a world-class, intelligent support platform. | — | 0 |
| Android Engineer Android Engineer role focused on building and shipping mobile experiences for Whatnot's seller growth and inventory management teams. Responsibilities include developing features using Kotlin and Jetpack Compose, collaborating cross-functionally, and contributing to mobile infrastructure. | — | 0 |
| Data Engineer Data Engineer role focused on building and scaling data systems, including data architecture, pipelines, and models, to support data-driven decisions across product, sales, marketing, finance, and trust teams. Requires experience with modern data tooling and cloud data warehouses. | — | 0 |