AI-First Full-Stack Engineer

Salt Digital Recruitment; New York (NY); On-site; USD 120,000 - 180,000; Full time

Job summary

Salt Digital Recruitment partners with a rapidly growing AI-driven tech company seeking an experienced AI-first Full Stack Engineer. You’ll design and ship AI-native features across the stack, owning architecture, deployment, and product impact.

You’ll work with leadership to shape product direction, experiment with new models, and build real-world AI applications used by customers daily. Strong TS/Python and LLM integration are essential.

Qualifications

• 8+ years of professional software engineering experience.
• 3+ years building production full-stack applications.
• Strong experience with modern TS and/or Python.
• Hands-on experience integrating LLM APIs including OpenAI, Anthropic or open-source models.
• Experience building AI products using agents, RAG, structured outputs and evaluation frameworks.
• Comfortable owning projects from architecture through deployment.
• Strong product mindset with the ability to make technical and business trade-off decisions.
• Evidence of building outside of work through open source, side projects or publicly available products.

Responsibilities

• Design, build and deploy production-ready AI features from concept through launch.
• Develop AI agents, RAG pipelines, tool integrations and intelligent workflows.
• Own the full application stack including frontend, backend, APIs, databases and model integrations.
• Build reliable evaluation frameworks, telemetry and feedback loops for AI products.
• Evaluate emerging AI technologies and recommend pragmatic solutions.
• Collaborate closely with product and business stakeholders to solve real customer problems.
• Ship quickly, iterate often and continuously improve the product experience.

Skills

TypeScript

Python

LLM APIs

AI products

Full-stack

Tools

OpenAI API

Anthropic API

Vector databases

Agent frameworks

Open-source tooling

Job description

Salt Digital Recruitment partners with a rapidly growing AI-driven tech company seeking an experienced AI-first Full Stack Engineer. You’ll design and ship AI-native features across the stack, owning architecture, deployment, and product impact.

You’ll work with leadership to shape product direction, experiment with new models, and build real-world AI applications used by customers daily. Strong TS/Python and LLM integration are essential.