See the system.
Understand the people, interfaces, services, data, and production signals before changing the screen.
Careers at Zyel • Atlanta + remote
Build systems people depend on.
Join the team that traces the hard problem, makes the hidden system visible, and carries the work from first question through production.
Working at Zyel
The work crosses disciplines. So do we.
Zyel takes responsibility for the whole operating system behind an idea: positioning, interface, application, data, infrastructure, workflow, launch, and evidence. You will work beside people who are comfortable moving between those layers—and who know when to bring in a specialist.
How the team operates
Clear thinking. Visible work. Production reality.
Own the outcome.
A deliverable is not done because it shipped. We stay close enough to know whether it works in the real operation.
Make it legible.
Share the draft, explain the tradeoff, document the decision, and leave the next person a system they can understand.
Connect the layers.
Strong specialists are welcome here. So are people who can connect engineering, design, operations, and business context.
Open opportunities
Choose where you make the system stronger.
Every opening is shaped around concrete outcomes, direct collaboration, and enough ownership to improve how the work gets done.
01
EngineeringSenior Systems Engineer
Full-time
Remote U.S. / Atlanta
Own business-critical web systems from discovery and architecture through launch, recovery, modernization, and ongoing operation.
What you will move forward
- Trace and stabilize inherited PHP, .NET, JavaScript, and database systems.
- Design custom platforms, portals, APIs, integrations, and release paths.
- Turn ambiguous operating requirements into clear technical plans.
- Improve observability, testing, security, and maintainability as you ship.
What helps you thrive
- Strong full-stack judgment and a portfolio of production systems.
- Comfort working across application code, data, infrastructure, and UX.
- Clear writing and calm communication when systems are under pressure.
- A preference for durable, understandable solutions over novelty.
02
AI + automationAI Automation Engineer
Full-time
Remote U.S. / Atlanta
Move useful AI ideas beyond the demo and into daily operations with integrations, evaluations, permissions, fallbacks, and human review.
What you will move forward
- Build assistants, extraction, routing, reporting, and operational workflows.
- Connect language models with APIs, databases, queues, and business tools.
- Create evaluation sets, guardrails, review paths, and production monitoring.
- Document where automation helps, where it fails, and how quality is measured.
What helps you thrive
- Production Python or TypeScript experience and fluency with APIs.
- Hands-on work with structured outputs, retrieval, tools, or agent workflows.
- A security-minded approach to sensitive data and model behavior.
- Curiosity balanced by the discipline to test instead of guess.
03
Delivery + operationsTechnical Project Lead
Full-time
Remote U.S. / Atlanta
Keep complex work legible and moving by connecting client context, technical decisions, creative execution, budgets, risks, and production evidence.
What you will move forward
- Lead discovery, scope, milestones, dependencies, and decision-making.
- Turn working sessions into clear briefs, owners, risks, and next moves.
- Coordinate engineering, design, data, content, and client stakeholders.
- Protect quality while adapting plans to what the team learns.
What helps you thrive
- Experience delivering websites, software, platforms, or technical programs.
- Enough technical fluency to ask sharper questions and surface hidden risk.
- Strong facilitation, writing, prioritization, and expectation management.
- Low ego, high follow-through, and comfort making tradeoffs visible.
04
Creative technologyCreative Technology Producer
Contract / project-based
Atlanta hybrid
Coordinate interactive, video, audio, and campaign work so the creative idea, technical build, production plan, and distribution reality stay connected.
What you will move forward
- Build treatments, schedules, production plans, shot lists, and delivery specs.
- Coordinate talent, crews, vendors, post-production, and client review.
- Shape assets for web, social, campaigns, events, and product experiences.
- Maintain organized files, releases, approvals, and production documentation.
What helps you thrive
- A portfolio spanning video, audio, motion, interactive, or branded content.
- Fluency in production workflows and common creative tools.
- Calm, precise communication when timelines or priorities shift.
- An understanding of how creative work performs after delivery.
05
Early career / paid internshipSystems + Creative Technology Intern
12 weeks / paid
Remote U.S. / Atlanta
Learn by contributing to scoped, real work across web systems, AI, automation, research, content, quality assurance, and creative production—with a dedicated mentor and a capstone you can show.
What you will move forward
- Support research, content, QA, prototypes, analytics, and production tasks.
- Join project reviews and learn how a brief becomes production work.
- Complete one mentored capstone that improves a real Zyel workflow.
- Document what you build and present it at the end of the program.
What helps you thrive
- Student, recent graduate, or self-taught builder with work to share.
- Interest in at least two areas: web, AI, design, audio, video, or operations.
- Clear writing, careful attention to detail, and dependable follow-through.
- Comfort asking thoughtful questions and learning unfamiliar tools.
The hiring path
A clear path, built around the work.
We want enough signal to make a good decision without turning the process into unpaid work.
Start with the work
Send a resume or profile, relevant examples, and a short note about why this role fits.
Talk through the system
Meet the people closest to the role and discuss the work, expectations, and collaboration style.
Use a real scenario
Work through a short, role-relevant discussion. We do not ask for speculative client deliverables.
Zyel considers qualified applicants without regard to race, color, religion, sex, gender identity or expression, sexual orientation, national origin, age, disability, veteran status, or any other protected characteristic.