Lead Applied AI Engineer for Greenfield AI Platforms

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

Job summary

Referment is partnering with a global investment and technology firm to hire an applied AI engineer who will design and deploy bespoke AI agents and applications for real business workflows. You will lead greenfield projects from discovery through production deployment and build developer tooling to streamline software development.

You will evaluate new model capabilities and integrate useful advances into production systems, creating reusable frameworks and shared AI infrastructure.

Qualifications

• Bachelor's degree and extensive software engineering background.
• Hands-on experience building and scaling AI products, systems or platforms.
• Knowledge of production agentic systems, including orchestration, tool use, memory and multi-step reasoning.
• Experience with rapid prototyping, evaluation, and ownership from inception to deployment.
• Strong analytical and creative abilities with proven achievements in technical or entrepreneurial settings.

Responsibilities

• Design and build bespoke AI agents and applications for real business workflows.
• Take greenfield projects from discovery and prototyping through coding, evaluation and production deployment.
• Build coding agents and developer tooling that improve software development workflows.
• Evaluate emerging model capabilities and integrate useful advances into production systems.
• Create reusable agent frameworks, skills, retrieval systems and shared AI infrastructure.
• Develop practical standards and components that support wider adoption.

Skills

Hands-on AI product development

Production agentic systems knowledge

Rapid prototyping & ownership

Analytical & creative problem solving

Education

Bachelor's degree in CS/SE or related

Job description

Referment is partnering with a global investment and technology firm to hire an applied AI engineer who will design and deploy bespoke AI agents and applications for real business workflows. You will lead greenfield projects from discovery through production deployment and build developer tooling to streamline software development.

You will evaluate new model capabilities and integrate useful advances into production systems, creating reusable frameworks and shared AI infrastructure.