Raydar
AI Engineer
$300K–$500K
New York, New York · Full-time · Posted Oct 20, 2026
- Experience
- Less than 4 years can be considered with an outstanding track record and personal projects; no general minimum stated.
- Education
- A degree from a highly regarded university is a bonus, or comparable evidence of strong ability.
About the job
Own and improve a consumer application’s conversational AI, from agent behavior and memory to on-screen rendering and quality evaluation.
What you'll do
- Design and operate an end-to-end conversational agent, including prompts, external tools, multi-stage reasoning, and incremental responses.
- Develop production systems for conversation state, memory, reliability, model-vendor routing, and rendering agent output in the interface.
- Build evaluation tools to measure agent quality and guide improvements.
What they ask for
- Hands-on experience designing, running, and refining evaluations for search or ranking quality.
- Experience building consumer products and launching language-model features that interpret user intent and return tailored results to live users.
- Ability to describe concrete production issues diagnosed and fixed, with breadth across applied AI areas such as prompting, embeddings, retrieval, and personalization memory.
- Regular use of AI-assisted software development tools.
Nice to have
- Proficiency in TypeScript or Python.
- Experience at a high-growth startup or well-known technology company; a degree from a highly regarded university or comparable evidence of strong ability.
Pay
USD 300,000 to 500,000 per year (base salary)
Tools
TypeScript, Python
AI focus
Build and evaluate dependable, useful language-model-driven conversations, including agent behavior, memory, tool use, model routing, and personalized responses.
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