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Software Engineer, Applied AI
$175K–$290K
New York · On-site · Full-time · Posted Apr 2, 2026
About the job
Build and improve production AI agent systems, using evaluations and real-world behavior to guide product and architecture decisions.
What you'll do
- Develop agent capabilities across retrieval, tool use, document understanding, memory, and orchestration.
- Design evaluations and experiments; analyze production traces, failures, and user behavior to improve agent quality.
- Work with operations, GTM, and deployed teams to assess workflows and iterate on systems for enterprise tasks.
What they ask for
- Strong engineering fundamentals and ability to ship production systems.
- Fluency in Python.
- Experience building or working on LLM-powered products, agent systems, or adjacent applied AI systems.
- Empirical mindset, systems judgment, high ownership, and comfort with ambiguity.
Pay
USD $175K – $290K base salary; offers equity; offers bonus
Tools
Python
AI focus
Applied AI agent development, including retrieval, document understanding, tool use, memory, orchestration, model and prompt evaluation, and production quality measurement.
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