Applied AI Engineer
Raydar
Applied AI Engineer
Raydar
AI-powered recruiting agency for tech roles
Raydar · New York, United States · Full-time · Posted 2026-10-15
Salary: USD 200,000–300,000
Workplace: on_site
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.
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.
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
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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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