AI Engineer

The role

Raydar is recruiting for this role on behalf of our client. Own the technical build and delivery of a tailored AI solution for a large client, from design through live rollout. Work daily with a distributed engineering group and serve as a technical point of contact for the client's engineers.

What you'll do

• Adapt a core AI platform to a large client's environment, owning the work from design through rollout.
• Collaborate daily with a remote engineering team to bring client-specific changes back into the shared codebase.
• Own production releases, integrations and reliability of AI systems in a regulated setting.
• Act as the main technical contact for the client's engineers, with roughly 20% of time spent in client-facing work.
• Diagnose complex production issues and drive them to resolution with little oversight.

What we're looking for

• 6 to 12 years of software engineering experience.
• Solid Python development background on backend or full-stack work, delivering features powered by machine learning from start to finish.
• Track record of releasing LLM-based or agent-style systems that real outside users depend on in live environments.
• Recent experience as an engineer at a high-growth startup delivering software to business customers.
• Strong skills in software architecture and system design, with the ability to carry technical delivery from start to finish.
• Based on the US East Coast and available during Eastern time hours.
• BS in Computer Science or a related field.

Bonus points

• Familiarity with cloud platforms, Kubernetes, CI/CD and observability tooling, without needing a pure infrastructure profile.

Compensation and benefits

• Base salary: USD 200,000 to 350,000 per year
• Equity

Location and work model

• Remote (US)
• Full-time