Applied AI Engineer — Build AI-Driven Simulations

association of arab universities; New York (NY); On-site; USD 120,000 - 190,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Equity participation

Medical, vision, dental coverage

Visa sponsorship

Relocation support

Job summary

Aaru in New York is seeking an Applied AI Engineer to advance AI systems, simulation infrastructure, and product development. You will translate ambiguous problems into working, reliable systems and collaborate across engineering and GTM teams to ship impactful capabilities.

You will mainly use Python and TypeScript, iterating from prototype to production while maintaining rigorous judgment, curiosity, and rapid learning across system areas.

Qualifications

• Strong general software engineering fundamentals across layers.
• Experience with Python and TypeScript preferred.
• Experience with AI or agent systems helpful.
• Fluency with Python, TypeScript, React, APIs and cloud infrastructure.

Responsibilities

• Improve agent functionality within Aaru's product, including interaction design, tool use, context handling, orchestration, reliability, and model behavior.
• Optimize simulation pipelines to increase throughput, remove bottlenecks, and make large or repeated runs more efficient.
• Build evaluation harnesses and supporting architecture that make agent and simulation capabilities testable, reproducible, and easier to improve.
• Help prototype and evaluate promising company bets through focused experiments and technical investigations, then help build out the ideas that merit further investment.
• Work cross-functionally with other engineering teams and GTM teams such as Deployment to make new capabilities usable, supportable, and dependable in real workflows.
• Write clear technical designs and documentation. Make assumptions, dependencies, tradeoffs, and unresolved risks legible to the rest of the organization.

Job description

Aaru in New York is seeking an Applied AI Engineer to advance AI systems, simulation infrastructure, and product development. You will translate ambiguous problems into working, reliable systems and collaborate across engineering and GTM teams to ship impactful capabilities.

You will mainly use Python and TypeScript, iterating from prototype to production while maintaining rigorous judgment, curiosity, and rapid learning across system areas.