Lead AI Engineer

About the company

Our client is a fast-growing software company.

The role

Raydar is recruiting for this role on behalf of our client. Serve as an early, senior full-stack engineer building AI-driven applications, owning the design and delivery of both back-end and user-facing systems. Work closely with product, design and engineering colleagues while helping set technical direction and engineering standards.

What you'll do

- Partner with engineers, product managers and designers to architect, build and own a user-facing application.

- Design intelligent solutions that span back-end and front-end systems.

- Promote sound engineering practices and help shape technical strategy and roadmaps.

- Help define how the team measures success.

- Initiate, influence and drive technical projects from idea through delivery.

Requirements

What we're looking for

- 4+ years of experience building AI products.

- Experience at a SaaS startup.

- Proficiency in Python and SQL/Postgres.

- Experience building AI applications and agents with common agent frameworks.

- Experience working with large language model APIs from leading providers.

- Exposure to containerized deployments and a major cloud platform.

- Professional experience with CI/CD and git.

- Daily use of AI coding tools.

- A computer science degree.

- Comfort with challenging, ambiguous and fast-changing problems, and a desire for broad impact as an early team member.

Bonus points

- Experience monitoring LLM-based systems.

- Experience training models.

Benefits

Compensation and benefits

- Base salary: USD 175,000 to 300,000 per year

- Equity

- Relocation support

Location and work model

- New York, New York, United States

- On-site, 5 days per week in office

- Full-time