Spara
Senior AI Engineer
$180K–$230K
New York City · Hybrid · Senior · Full-time · Posted Sep 18, 2025
- Experience
- 4+ years of engineering experience; meaningful time spent working with LLMs and related technologies. At least one startup experience.
About the job
Build and improve production AI agent systems for sales across chat, email, voice, meeting assistants, and lead enrichment.
What you'll do
- Build and iterate on AI systems across customer-facing and internal agent applications.
- Improve retrieval, ranking, response quality, and platform quality evaluation.
- Ship production software multiple times a day across the stack.
What they ask for
- 4+ years of engineering experience, including meaningful work with LLMs and related technologies.
- Experience at at least one startup.
- Deep familiarity with the agentic AI landscape.
- Proven ability to ship production ML/AI systems and strong software engineering fundamentals across the stack.
Nice to have
- Experience with retrieval systems, search, or NLP.
- Advanced degree in ML or a related field.
Pay
$180K – $230K base salary
Tools
FastAPI, Python, React, TypeScript, Postgres, pgvector, OpenAI, Anthropic
AI focus
Build production AI agents and improve retrieval, ranking, response quality, and evaluation across the platform.
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