Senior Applied AI Engineer

Location: New York, NY (onsite, 5 days)

Pay: $220,000–$300,000 + equity

A fast-growing, venture-backed software and payments company is hiring an applied AI engineer to build agents its customers use every day. Each engineer owns a full product area, and work reaches customers the same week it's written.

What you'll do

• Build production LLM agents for pricing, marketing and reporting
• Extract structured data from messy real-world documents
• Build embedding-based matching and retrieval
• Own the evaluation and tracing harnesses
• Take models from prototype to production, shipping weekly

What you bring

• 5+ years building and shipping AI products
• Strong TypeScript and/or Python
• Experience across the full AI lifecycle, including evals
• Uses AI coding tools to work in parallel
• BS, MS or PhD in CS or related, or equivalent experience

Nice to have: LLM context and harness engineering; LLM observability tooling; Postgres with vector search

Visa sponsorship available (H-1B transfers preferred).