# Applied AI Engineer

> Raydar · New York, United States · Full-time · Posted 2026-10-15

**Salary:** USD 200,000–300,000

**Workplace:** on_site

## Description

About the company

Our client is a small software company.

The role

Raydar is recruiting for this role on behalf of our client. Design and deliver production AI features that take over intricate, document-heavy business processes. Carry projects from early experiments through to live release and ongoing refinement, partnering closely with founders and subject-matter experts. Contribute to the direction of the product through hands-on learning.

What you'll do

\- Design and develop LLM-driven agent applications that automate multi-step financial processes.

\- Take responsibility for the full lifecycle: prototyping, evaluation, release, monitoring and continuous improvement based on user feedback.

\- Judge when plain rule-based code, assisted AI flows or fully autonomous agents best fit a given problem.

\- Sit alongside founders and domain experts to watch real work being done, spot weaknesses in the agent's context or design, and deliver fixes.

\- Build AI capabilities into the user experience so they feel natural and enjoyable to use, not just strong on technical metrics.

\- Help steer the product roadmap using what you learn from hands-on work with agent-based approaches.

## Requirements

What we're looking for

\- Roughly 1.5 to 4 years of professional software engineering experience in production environments, ideally at a high-growth startup or respected technology firm.

\- Prior experience as a founder, early employee or engineer in an early-stage company.

\- A history of creating new systems yourself rather than mainly wiring together existing tools.

\- Hands-on applied AI experience with LLMs, agents, retrieval or document-processing applications.

\- Ability to turn loosely defined problems into deployed solutions with measurable results.

\- Comfort collaborating directly with subject-matter experts.

\- Availability to work in person at the New York office.

Bonus points

\- Background in finance or other regulated sectors that rely heavily on documents.

\- For earlier-career candidates, a strong academic background from a leading university.

## Benefits

Compensation and benefits

\- Base salary: USD 200,000 to 300,000 per year

\- Equity

\- Relocation support

Location and work model

\- New York, NY, USA

\- On-site, 4-5 days per week in the office

\- Full-time

## Apply

[Apply at Raydar](https://apply.workable.com/raydar/j/C66EAE1691/apply)

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