Raydar
Founding Engineer
$185K–$250K
San Francisco, California · Full-time · Posted Sep 19, 2026
- Experience
- 1 to 5 years.
- Education
- Strong computer science or technical fundamentals through education or professional experience.
- Visa sponsorship
- Visa transfers are supported.
About the job
Turn applied AI research into reliable production tools and safety capabilities for regulated financial workflows.
What you'll do
- Build evaluation environments and production-ready guardrails for AI systems.
- Ship safety tooling, improve it using customer feedback, and build core infrastructure.
- Make architecture decisions and help establish engineering practices.
What they ask for
- Software engineering experience delivering real products.
- Hands-on experience with production systems and core infrastructure.
- Ability to build and own customer-facing features from scratch.
- Ability to work onsite five days per week.
Nice to have
- Experience with agentic systems, retrieval, inference infrastructure, or self-hosted deployment.
- Experience with evaluation harnesses, RL environments, or training pipelines; startup experience or research combined with commercial product delivery.
Pay
USD 185,000 to 250,000 per year base salary.
Tools
agentic systems, retrieval, inference infrastructure, self-hosted deployment, evaluation harnesses, RL environments, training pipelines
AI focus
Build evaluation environments, production-ready guardrails, and safety tooling for AI systems used in financial workflows.
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