Raydar
AI Engineer
$210K–$250K
New York, New York · Full-time · Posted Oct 29, 2026
- Experience
- 4 or more years of software engineering experience; between one and three years developing autonomous AI tools and operating them in live environments.
About the job
Build and ship production AI agent systems and supporting backend services, establishing reliable evaluation, safety, and operational foundations.
What you'll do
- Deliver agent-based product features from concept through production, including evaluation, guardrails, integrations, monitoring, and error handling.
- Build Python backend services and APIs, and develop systems that work across LLM providers.
- Lead AI projects independently and establish patterns and processes for a growing AI team.
What they ask for
- 4 or more years of software engineering experience.
- Between one and three years developing autonomous AI tools and operating them in live environments.
- Experience taking an AI agent or LLM-powered feature from zero to one into production.
- Production experience building APIs and services in Python, Django or FastAPI on AWS; hands-on depth with language models, prompting, tool use, and context management.
Nice to have
- Applied AI background at a fast-growing technology company.
- Practical understanding of the limits and potential of current AI systems.
Pay
USD 210,000 to 250,000 per year (base salary)
Tools
Python, Django, FastAPI, AWS
AI focus
Develop production AI agents and LLM-powered features, focusing on evaluation, guardrails, tool integrations, monitoring, audit trails, and safe behavior across model providers.
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