# Staff AI Engineer

> Raydar · United States (Remote) · Full-time · Posted 2026-10-16

**Salary:** USD 250,000–300,000

**Workplace:** remote

## Description

About the company

Our client is a wellness and fitness company.

The role

Raydar is recruiting for this role on behalf of our client. Lead the design and delivery of production AI capabilities for a consumer product, owning each feature from first prototype through release and continued refinement. The role suits a self-directed engineer who thrives in a rapidly changing, early-stage setting and partners with cross-functional colleagues.

What you'll do

\- Build and ship LLM-powered agents that call external tools, return structured results and stream responses to users.

\- Develop AI-driven features that deliver personalized guidance, with a person always reviewing the output.

\- Own each capability end to end: prototype, assess it against quality and safety standards, release it, watch its behavior in production and keep improving it.

\- Raise reliability and speed while lowering cost through caching, token management, retry handling and monitoring.

\- Create the integrations and supporting utilities that agents depend on, with validated inputs and outputs.

\- Work side by side with product, design, mobile and server-side colleagues.

## Requirements

What we're looking for

\- Track record at Staff Engineer level or higher.

\- Hands-on experience operating large language models in live products, including prompt design, tool use, formatted outputs and quality assessment.

\- Familiarity with frameworks for orchestrating AI agents.

\- Proven history of shipping and running Python services in production.

\- Time spent in a fast-moving startup, or as a founder, including ventures that did not succeed.

\- High energy and a strong drive to take action.

\- Comfort with candid, real-time feedback in both directions.

\- Ability to work remotely during US time zones.

Bonus points

\- Prior experience at a large technology company or a late-stage startup before joining smaller companies.

\- Working knowledge of asynchronous programming and real-time data delivery over web APIs.

\- Background in health technology.

\- Based in San Francisco, CA.

## Benefits

Compensation and benefits

\- Base salary: USD 250,000 to 300,000 per year

\- Equity

Location and work model

\- Remote (US)

\- Full-time

## Apply

[Apply at Raydar](https://apply.workable.com/raydar/j/C7492D0665/apply)

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