Senior AI Engineer — Applied Multi-Agent Systems

Take2; New York (NY); Hybrid; USD 170,000 - 250,000; Full time

Job summary

Take2 AI in New York City is hiring a Senior Software Engineer, Applied AI to design, build, and scale the AI systems powering Take2's autonomous healthcare recruiting platform. You’ll own applied-AI work end-to-end—from prototyping and model selection through production reliability—as we scale from thousands to millions of candidate conversations.

This high-ownership, hands-on role suits a senior engineer who thrives in a startup environment, with strong backend, ML, and cloud skills, and a

Qualifications

• 6+ years software engineering experience with ML and Applied AI.
• Bachelor’s in Computer Science or Computer Engineering.
• Shipped multi-agent AI solutions with real-time inference to live users at scale.
• Designed and implemented agent orchestration, evaluation frameworks, and related tooling.
• Shipped production AI applications with real-time inference, integrating ML models into live systems.
• Built and operated distributed backend systems with monitoring and observability in place.
• Strong proficiency in Python, JavaScript, Node.js, AWS, Kubernetes, Docker.
• 2+ years at an early to mid-stage startup (Series B or lower).

Responsibilities

• Design and build applied AI-powered features and agentic workflows — tweak systems, use RAG, build intra-agent networks & communication — and ship them to production.
• Select, integrate, evaluate, and tune models for the right balance of quality, latency, cost, and reliability across voice AI pipelines (STT/TTS/VAD).
• Build evaluation, guardrail, and observability systems to ensure AI behavior is measurable and safe at scale.
• Own the backend services and data/inference pipelines that serve applied-AI features in production.
• Collaborate closely with product and founding engineering to rapidly prototype and deliver with significant ownership over technical direction.

Skills

ML & Applied AI

Python

JavaScript/Node.js

AWS

Kubernetes

Docker

Distributed systems

Education

Bachelor's in CS/CE

Job description

Take2 AI in New York City is hiring a Senior Software Engineer, Applied AI to design, build, and scale the AI systems powering Take2's autonomous healthcare recruiting platform. You’ll own applied-AI work end-to-end—from prototyping and model selection through production reliability—as we scale from thousands to millions of candidate conversations.

This high-ownership, hands-on role suits a senior engineer who thrives in a startup environment, with strong backend, ML, and cloud skills, and a