AI Engineer - Prototyping (Fully Remote)

Emergence AI; United States; Hybrid; USD 180,000 - 250,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Health benefits

401(k) with company match

Flexible PTO

Flexible hybrid/remote work

Job summary

Emergence AI in New York seeks an AI Engineer to build customer-facing platform capabilities and AI-powered solutions for enterprise clients. You will collaborate with Product Management, Customer Success, and enterprise customers to rapidly understand problems and ship production-quality software.

You will work on AI-native development, building production workflows, and integrating enterprise-grade capabilities across industries.

Qualifications

• 3+ years of professional software engineering experience.
• AI-native engineer using Claude Code, Cursor, Codex, or similar AI tools daily.
• Strong fundamentals with production backend services, APIs, or distributed systems.

Responsibilities

• Build customer-facing capabilities across the Enterprise Agent Platform, including orchestration and workflow execution.
• Develop production-ready AI workflows and reusable platform services powering enterprise solutions.
• Design trusted AI capabilities including evaluation, observability, provenance, and human-in-the-loop workflows.

Skills

3+ yrs exp

AI-native engineer

Backend services

APIs

Distributed systems

Developer platforms

Tools

Claude Code

Cursor

Codex

Job description

• As an AI Engineer at Emergence AI you'll build customer-facing platform capabilities and AI-powered solutions that solve real business problems.
• You'll work directly with Product Management, Customer Success, and enterprise customers to rapidly understand problems and ship production-quality software.
• We're looking for engineers who are AI-native, curious, and passionate about building.

What You'll Do:

• Build customer-facing capabilities across our Enterprise Agent Platform, including agent orchestration, workflow execution, and enterprise integrations.
• Develop production-ready AI workflows and reusable platform services that power enterprise solutions across multiple industries.
• Design trusted AI capabilities including evaluation, verification, observability, provenance, and human-in-the-loop workflows.

What You'll Have:

• 3+ years of professional software engineering experience building production software.
• AI-native engineer who uses Claude Code, Cursor, Codex, or similar AI development tools as part of your daily engineering workflow.
• Strong software engineering fundamentals with experience building production backend services, APIs, distributed systems, or developer platforms.

Compensation and Benefits:

• Emergence AI offers competitive compensation with a range of $180K - $250K.
• Comprehensive health benefits including medical, dental and vision, plus 401(k) with company match.
• Flexible PTO and company holidays, with a flexible hybrid/remote work environment.

Emergence AI

Emergence AI is a frontier agentic AI lab advancing safe, autonomous AI through its pioneering neuroformal architecture. With headquarters in New York and offices across California, Spain, and India, the team brings experience from leading AI research labs and technology companies.