Real impact, not busywork.
Your code ships to production. Your campaigns book real clients. Your content gets cited by AI platforms. Your analysis shows up in places where decisions get made, not in a backlog.
Work That Actually Ships.
Rhetor is a lean team of builders shipping AI marketing, automation, and engineering for small business. We are hiring engineers, strategists, content people, and analysts who can see the signal in the noise.
Why Rhetor.
Our work sits in the operations of the small businesses that hire us. What we build gets used in the rooms where decisions get made, not in a slide deck for a quarterly review.
Hard problems, small team.
We're a lean team tackling complex challenges across AI search visibility, agent infrastructure, real-time data systems, and operational AI for small business. No bureaucracy. No permission layers. Just builders building.
Three practices, one team.
Marketing, automation, and engineering all sit on the same team at Rhetor. People move between practices. If you want to learn beyond your starting specialty, the room is here.
What We Build.
Four practices ship out of Rhetor. The mix moves with us. Pick where you want to start; the door to the next one stays open.
AI Marketing.
SEO, AI search visibility, content, link building, and AI-optimized website rebuilds. The team that gets SMBs found across Google and the six AI platforms buyers now use.
AI Automation.
Voice agents, web chat, SMS, follow-up sequences. The AI automation team handles inbound at scale for businesses that cannot staff every channel around the clock.
AI Engineering.
RAG pipelines, custom copilots, internal dashboards, agent frameworks, evaluation harnesses. Embedded engineers inside client codebases shipping production AI.
Political Intelligence.
Sentiment analysis, bill tracking, voter forecasting, forensic accounting. The political intelligence practice runs out of a separate team built around the campaign cycle and bipartisan ethics.
Open Roles.
Categories we are actively hiring across. Specific titles vary by quarter. Don't see a fit? Apply anyway.
AI Engineering.
Senior engineers shipping RAG, agents, copilots, evaluation systems, and bespoke AI inside client operations. Python, TypeScript, Go, frontier model APIs, vector stores. You own production from day two.
Marketing & SEO.
Senior practitioners running local SEO, national SEO, link building, and AI search visibility across SMB and agency-partner books. Strategy plus hands-on execution, not just oversight.
Account & Strategy.
Client-facing leads who scope engagements, run discovery, and quarterback delivery across the three practices and every industry vertical we serve. Comfortable in a lean operating model where you own the relationship end to end.
Content & Editorial.
Editors and writers shipping long-form content written to be cited by AI platforms. Subject-matter interviews, briefs, schema-tagged drafts. Editorial brain over keyword brain.
Political Intelligence.
Analysts and data engineers for the political practice. Real-time sentiment across digital and traditional media, legislative tracking, voter forecasting models, forensic accounting on campaign finance.
Don't see a fit? Apply anyway. We are a growing team and we are always looking for people who can move fast and think clearly.
Send your applicationHow We Hire.
We don't hire résumés. We hire builders. The process is short, the conversation is direct, and the practical step is paid.
01
Apply.
Send a note with what you have built, what problems you have solved, and why you want to work here. We read every application personally. No résumé screen.
02
First Call.
Inside one week for the applications that fit. A 30-minute call to understand what you want to ship and where you would want to start.
03
Real Work.
A paid practical project that mirrors the actual work, scoped to a few hours. We pay for your time and we explain how the project relates to live engagements.
04
Decision.
Inside one week of the project. Offer or a direct no with feedback. Either way you keep the work product, the explanation, and the candid read.
Send Your Application.
Tell us what you have built, what problems you have solved, and why you want to work here. We read every application personally and respond inside one business day.