AI Engineering Lead
Raydar
AI Engineering Lead
Raydar
AI-powered recruiting agency for tech roles
Raydar · New York, United States · Full-time · Posted 2026-10-22
Salary: USD 240,000–340,000
Workplace: on_site
About the company
Our client is a fast-growing Series A compliance software company that uses AI to help investment advisers and broker-dealers monitor communications, marketing, accounts and filings for regulatory risk. It has about $11 million in ARR and a team of about 60, and it is growing quickly.
The role
Raydar is recruiting for this role on behalf of our client. You will lead the company's AI efforts and set their technical direction, working directly with the founding team and the head of engineering. The AI roadmap includes a conversational assistant for running a compliance program, AI review of incoming communications, and a push toward a fully agentic product. You will own the architecture behind all of it.
What you'll do
- Review the existing AI systems in your first weeks, decide what to fix, and implement the changes yourself.
- Own the AI architecture for the whole product: the agent harness, memory, context management and token efficiency.
- Deploy meaningful improvements to the AI experiences in your first month.
- Pay close attention to scaling as more clients come on.
- Hire and mentor new team members.
What we're looking for
- Experience building and deploying agentic experiences with real users, owning logging, labeling and evals end to end.
- Experience shipping production-ready backend Python.
- Experience in a fast-paced startup environment.
- 6 or more years of engineering experience.
- Clear communication and strong problem solving.
- A bachelor's or master's degree in computer science or a related field.
Bonus points
- Experience applying machine learning in regulatory technology or the legal space.
- Experience at a company built agent-first rather than one that added agents later.
Compensation and benefits
- Base salary: USD 240,000 to 340,000 per year
- Competitive equity
- Comprehensive benefits, including a 401(k) match
- Very few meetings, broad scope and high autonomy
Location and work model
- New York, NY, United States
- On-site, five days a week
- Full-time
- U.S. work authorization is required
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Raydar is an AI-powered talent acquisition firm that serves tech-focused organizations on a contingency basis, charging client companies only after a successful hire. It uses proprietary AI to identify a large pool of candidates and conducts a short 15-minute AI-driven interview (recorded and transcribed) before human recruiters review materials, provide interview prep, and assist with offers and negotiations. What sets it apart is the blend of automated sourcing and screening with hands-on human oversight and tailored client support. Its goal is to help organizations hire more efficiently by speeding up sourcing while maintaining thorough evaluation and negotiation assistance.
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