Software Engineer, Applied AI & Agent Systems

Auctor

New York (NY)

On-site

USD 175,000 - 290,000

Full time

14 days+
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Benefits offered by this job

Early-stage equity
Competitive, top-of-market salary
Catered lunch and dinners

Job summary

A leading AI services company is seeking a Software Engineer, Applied AI to design and improve core systems for their agent technology. This role involves building and enhancing systems across retrieval, document understanding, and orchestration. Strong Python skills and experience with LLM-powered products are essential. The position is based in New York and offers a competitive salary range of $175,000 to $290,000 plus equity, with benefits like catered meals and early-stage equity.

Qualifications

  • Strong engineering fundamentals and the ability to ship production systems.
  • Experience building or working on LLM-powered products, agent systems, or adjacent applied AI systems.
  • High ownership and comfort working in ambiguity.

Responsibilities

  • Build and improve the core systems behind our agents across retrieval and orchestration.
  • Design evals and experiments to understand agent quality in production.
  • Work closely with operations and deployed teams to understand workflows.

Skills

Fluency in Python
Strong engineering fundamentals
Experience with LLM-powered products
Empirical mindset
Strong systems taste
High ownership
Opinions on agent systems

Job description

A leading AI services company is seeking a Software Engineer, Applied AI to design and improve core systems for their agent technology. This role involves building and enhancing systems across retrieval, document understanding, and orchestration. Strong Python skills and experience with LLM-powered products are essential. The position is based in New York and offers a competitive salary range of $175,000 to $290,000 plus equity, with benefits like catered meals and early-stage equity.
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