Applied AI Engineer
Raydar
Applied AI Engineer
Raydar
AI-powered recruiting agency for tech roles
Raydar · San Diego, United States (Hybrid) · Full-time · Posted 2026-11-04
Salary: USD 160,000–250,000
Workplace: hybrid
About the company
Our client is an enterprise software company.
The role
Raydar is recruiting for this role on behalf of our client. Design and build the AI layer of a software product, defining how the system reasons, coordinates multi-step tasks and interacts with users. The work covers agentic workflows, model integrations, evaluation and reliability, and close partnership with frontend and backend engineers.
What you'll do
- Build multi-step agent workflows that track state, propose actions and carry tasks through to completion.
- Link language models to external functions, stored context and lookup layers that span mixed data sources.
- Safeguard sensitive information and design fallback behavior for failed tools, incomplete inputs and unreliable model outputs.
- Set up test harnesses that score how well generative features perform and feed results back into iteration.
- Tune AI interactions for speed, clarity and user control.
- Work with frontend and backend engineers to bring AI features into everyday product workflows.
- Weigh trade-offs between model capability, latency and reliability.
What we're looking for
- Hands-on record of deploying language-model agents to live users, including function calling, stateful context and self-directed planning.
- Proven ability to raise the output quality of AI features through systematic scoring and testing.
- Experience leading multi-quarter technical projects from design through delivery.
- Expert-level Python backend development skills.
- Experience building retrieval systems over structured and unstructured data.
Bonus points
- Prior work in a small, fast-paced engineering group at a young company.
- Background in manufacturing or industrial operations software.
- Master's degree in computer science, mathematics, physics or a related quantitative field.
- Familiarity with FastAPI.
Compensation and benefits
- Salary: $160K - $250K
- Bonus
- Equity
Location and work model
- San Diego, Los Angeles or San Francisco Bay Area, California, United States
- Hybrid: 3 days per week in office in San Diego, or one week per month in office for Los Angeles and Bay Area employees
- Full-time
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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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