Full-Time
Data Scientist
AI Personal Stylist
Posted on 8/19/2025
Daydream
51-200 employees
AI-powered fashion discovery shopping agent
No salary listed
New York, NY, USA
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- Hands-on experience working with Large Language Models (LLMs), including prompt engineering, fine-tuning, programmatic API usage, and building evaluation frameworks.
- Strong background of machine learning fundamentals, including classification, regression, clustering, and the principles behind embeddings and gradient descent.
- Proficient in Python and a major deep learning framework such as PyTorch or TensorFlow.
- Strong interest or background in the fashion, retail, or luxury goods industry.
- Empathetic and collaborative teammate, skilled at communicating complex technical ideas.
- Design, build, and deploy core features for our AI stylist using advanced techniques like Retrieval-Augmented Generation (RAG) and LLM-powered agents.
- Own the end-to-end lifecycle of our models, from data processing and fine-tuning to creating robust evaluation frameworks that measure quality and accuracy.
- Masterfully craft and iterate on prompts to shape the AI's persona, ensuring it embodies the voice and expertise of a world-class fashion consultant.
- Collaborate closely with product, design, and engineering teams to translate user needs and creative concepts into tangible, production-ready AI features.
- Champion rapid, hypothesis-driven experimentation, embracing the freedom to take calculated risks, test bold ideas, and pivot quickly to discover breakthrough user experiences.
- Stay at the forefront of the rapidly evolving AI landscape, researching and prototyping new architectures and techniques to continuously elevate our product.
- Strong interest or background in the fashion, retail, or luxury goods industry.
Daydream is an AI-driven retail platform that provides a chat-based shopping agent for fashion. It uses natural-language understanding to interpret questions and offer personalized product recommendations, reducing irrelevant search results. The service centers on discovery, guiding online shoppers to clothing and accessories from about 8,000 brands through a conversational interface, with revenue likely coming from commissions on sales. Its goal is to improve the shopping experience by delivering relevant, personalized recommendations and helping brands connect with shoppers through an agent-driven flow.
Company Size
51-200
Company Stage
Seed
Total Funding
$50M
Headquarters
San Francisco, California
Founded
2023
Simplify's Take
What believers are saying
- Catalog expanded to over 10,000 vetted brands since June 2025 launch.
- $50M seed funding from Forerunner Ventures and Index Ventures fuels growth.
- iOS 26 Liquid Glass integration optimizes UI for premium visual shopping.
What critics are saying
- Google's Gemini agent captures users via Search integrations within 3-6 months.
- Amazon's Rufus erodes 20% commissions using Prime data in 6-12 months.
- OpenAI's Operator automates purchases, obsoleting Daydream's interface in 6-12 months.
What makes Daydream unique
- Daydream's AI masters fashion nuances like color, cut, and occasion unlike generalized models.
- iPhone app leverages Apple's visual intelligence for screenshot-based shopping from 10,000 brands.
- Chat-to-shop with 'Say More' feature evolves recommendations through user interactions.
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Benefits
Health Insurance
Dental Insurance
Vision Insurance
401(k) Retirement Plan
Unlimited Paid Time Off
Remote Work Options
Growth & Insights and Company News
6 month growth
↓ -4%1 year growth
↑ 9%2 year growth
↑ 7%Daydream launches design-forward iPhone app to advance ai-driven fashion search. News provided by. Leveraging Apple's latest visual intelligence capabilities, Daydream introduces a next-generation shopping experience that turns inspiration into instant discovery. NEW YORK, Nov. 18, 2025 /PRNewswire/ - Daydream, the AI-powered fashion discovery platform, today announced the launch of its new iPhone app, a continuation of its mission to reimagine online shopping. At the core of Daydream's experience is its proprietary fashion AI, a system deeply trained on global fashion catalogs and visual semantics. Unlike generalized search models, Daydream's AI understands fashion nuances like color, cut, and occasion and continuously learns each user's unique sense of style. Through its chat-to-shop experience and "Say More" feature, shoppers can refine preferences and receive context-aware recommendations that evolve with every interaction. With this new app, Daydream is thoughtfully designed for visual-first shopping and takes full advantage of the new design with Liquid Glass in iOS 26. The shopping app enables seamless conversation with the Daydream agent while browsing product results. Leveraging Apple's visual intelligence framework, Daydream allows users to search and shop directly from a screenshot - whether it's a street-style look, an editorial image, or a saved post. Daydream instantly matches each image to shoppable products from a catalog of more than 10,000 vetted fashion brands and retailers. "With Apple's visual intelligence capabilities, we saw an opportunity to make Daydream even more intuitive where seeing becomes shopping," said Julie Bornstein, Founder and CEO of Daydream. "By tapping directly into this feature, our app can understand styles a user is viewing on their iPhone screen and instantly surface fashion matches from all the best brands in real time, turning visual inspiration into frictionless shopping." Core UI components within the Daydream app such as chat input to navigation deliver a seamless, visually immersive shopping experience, and the new design introduced with iOS 26 adds clarity and depth to every interaction. "From optimizing rendering for the Liquid Glass elements to ensuring our UX patterns align with the new design in iOS 26, our goal was to create something that feels both familiar and refreshingly delightful for people who love to shop," said Maria Belousova, Chief Technology Officer of Daydream. "We're building an intelligent layer over the world of fashion. One that understands taste, context, and individuality," Bornstein said. "By pairing deep domain expertise and AI with next-generation design, we're redefining what intelligent shopping feels like. Daydream ensures its technology and design meet these high-value consumers where they already expect premium digital experiences." About Daydream Daydream is the first chat-based AI shopping agent built exclusively for fashion. Designed to redefine how people search and discover fashion, Daydream offers a personalized, conversational experience powered by advanced AI and natural language understanding. Shoppers can engage naturally through text or images to find exactly what they're looking for from the largest branded fashion catalog of its kind, featuring over 10,000 brands across every style, category and price point. Led by e-commerce veteran, CEO and founder Julie Bornstein, Daydream raised $50 million in seed funding from top-tier investors, including Forerunner Ventures, Index Ventures, Google Ventures and True Ventures. The company is led by a team with experience at Google, Meta, Amazon, Microsoft, Pinterest, Nordstrom, Stitch Fix and Farfetch, and is committed to using technology to transform the future of online shopping for fashion. To download the app, visit: Apple App Store Correction: An earlier version of this release did not have the link to download the app below the About Daydream. SOURCE Daydream
Daydream unveils AI fashion discovery platform for personalized shopping.
Daydream, an AI-fashion startup by Julie Bornstein, has launched its public beta with $50 million in seed funding. The platform aims to transform online shopping by using natural conversation instead of search bars. Users create a "style passport," and the chatbot suggests items from 8,500 labels, checking real-time inventory. Daydream takes a 20% commission per sale. The goal is to make fashion discovery more human and potentially become a key affiliate engine for retailers.
/PRNewswire/ -- Today e-commerce tech and retail veteran Julie Bornstein along with co-founders Matt Fisher, Dan Cary, Lisa Green and Richard Kim announce they...