# Software Engineer

> Raydar · New York, United States · Full-time · Posted 2026-09-30

**Salary:** USD 165,000–185,000

**Workplace:** on_site

## Description

About the company

Our client is a software company.

The role

Raydar is recruiting for this role on behalf of our client. Join as an early engineering hire, designing, building and owning production features of an AI-driven software platform from first idea through release. The role involves working closely with technical leadership, internal subject-matter experts and clients to turn real operational needs into shipped software.

What you'll do

\- Build and own a conversational search and analysis feature that lets users query large bodies of data and generate work products.

\- Design and ship automated multi-step workflows, including structured data extraction and tool-calling systems that run reliably at scale.

\- Build the supporting infrastructure that keeps language-model features production-ready, including evaluation, observability, structured outputs, error handling and monitoring.

\- Work with clients and internal experts to understand operations, spot automation opportunities and deliver features end-to-end.

\- Partner closely with technical leadership to develop deep expertise in your area of the platform and eventually own it independently.

## Requirements

What we're looking for

\- Background building business-to-business AI products or large-scale document processing systems.

\- A track record of delivering and maintaining live software where reliability matters.

\- Hands-on experience with LLM agents, tool-calling and multi-step AI workflows, including handling nondeterminism and context management.

\- Strong backend engineering skills in Python at platform scale.

\- Comfort designing database schemas for layered, interconnected information.

\- Understanding of retrieval-augmented generation.

\- Ability to own features end-to-end without detailed specs or design support, communicating proactively.

\- A four-year degree.

\- Ability to work on-site five days a week.

## Benefits

Compensation and benefits

\- Base salary: USD 165,000 to 185,000 per year

\- Equity

Location and work model

\- New York, NY, United States

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

\- Full-time

## Apply

[Apply at Raydar](https://apply.workable.com/raydar/j/C7E7A052BE/apply)

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