# AI Engineer > Raydar · New York, United States · Full-time · Posted 2026-10-29 **Salary:** USD 210,000–250,000 **Workplace:** on_site ## Description About the company Our client is a financial services company. The role Raydar is recruiting for this role on behalf of our client. Build and ship AI agent systems from early prototype into production, with a focus on reliability, evaluation and safe behaviour. Work across backend APIs and cloud infrastructure, and help set the foundations for a growing AI function. This is a hands-on role for an engineer who can own work independently in a small team. What you'll do \- Design and deliver agent-based product features end to end, from early concept through production release. \- Own the supporting layer around each agent, including evaluation, guardrails, tool integrations, monitoring, audit trails and error handling. \- Build backend services and APIs in Python, and help shape the user-facing interface. \- Develop AI systems that work across different large language model providers, managing prompts, tool use and context while balancing performance, cost and maintainability. \- Lead AI projects from first idea to production with a high degree of independence. \- Set up the patterns, systems and processes that a future AI team will build on. \- Track and adopt new models, tools and techniques that improve the product and speed up development. ## Requirements What we're looking for \- 4 or more years of software engineering experience. \- Between one and three years spent developing autonomous AI tools and operating them in live environments. \- Experience taking an AI agent or LLM-powered feature from zero to one into production, beyond prototypes. \- Strong traditional backend foundation, with production experience building APIs and services in Python, Django or FastAPI on AWS. \- Hands-on depth with frontier language models, including prompting, tool use and context management. \- Comfort owning ambiguous, high-stakes work from start to finish in a small, fast-moving team. Bonus points \- Applied AI background at a fast-growing technology company. \- Clear instincts for the practical limits and potential of current AI systems. ## Benefits Compensation and benefits \- Base salary: USD 210,000 to 250,000 per year \- Equity \- Health, dental and vision coverage \- Flexible time off Location and work model \- New York, NY, United States \- On-site, five days a week \- Full-time ## Apply [Apply at Raydar](https://apply.workable.com/raydar/j/002BE6197D/apply) --- Powered by [Workable](https://www.workable.com)