Raydar
Applied AI Engineer
$200K–$300K
New York, New York · Full-time · Posted Oct 15, 2026
- Experience
- Roughly 1.5 to 4 years of professional software engineering experience in production environments.
About the job
Design, launch, and improve AI features that automate complex, document-heavy financial processes, working closely with founders and subject-matter experts.
What you'll do
- Develop LLM-driven agents for multi-step financial processes and manage them from prototyping through monitoring and refinement.
- Choose between rule-based code, AI-assisted flows, and autonomous agents; improve agent context and design based on observing users’ work.
- Integrate AI into the product experience and inform the roadmap through hands-on learning.
What they ask for
- Hands-on applied AI experience with LLMs, agents, retrieval, or document-processing applications.
- Prior experience as a founder, early employee, or engineer at an early-stage company.
- Experience creating new systems and turning loosely defined problems into deployed solutions with measurable results.
- Availability to work in person at the New York office.
Nice to have
- Background in finance or other regulated, document-heavy sectors.
- For earlier-career candidates, a strong academic background from a leading university.
Pay
USD 200,000 to 300,000 per year (base salary)
Tools
LLMs
AI focus
Build and operate LLM-driven agents and applied AI features for financial process automation, including evaluation, monitoring, and ongoing improvement.
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