About the company
Our client is a fast-growing software company.
The role
Raydar is recruiting for this role on behalf of our client. Join a small engineering group building AI agent systems that write and run code reliably in production. The work spans backend services, memory and learning components, user-facing AI interactions and administrative controls, with a high degree of ownership from day one.
What you'll do
- Build learning and memory components that let an AI agent adapt to each user's context and data.
- Design and implement AI agents that write, run, debug and test code, and that recover gracefully from failures.
- Shape how users interact with AI and how their feedback is captured and used.
- Develop administrative control layers for managing applications, workflows, secrets and policies.
- Solve problems where AI, security and distributed systems meet, at large scale.
Requirements
What we're looking for
- 2+ years of software engineering experience.
- Experience shipping AI agent systems or LLM-powered applications to production.
- Strong backend engineering and database design skills.
- High agency and the ability to drive projects end-to-end without close direction.
- Based in New York City or willing to relocate immediately.
- Willingness to work in the office 5 days per week with demanding hours.
Bonus points
- Advanced degree (Master's or PhD) in computer science, AI/ML or distributed systems.
- Time spent at a fast-scaling startup or a company that builds core infrastructure.
- Background in security, sandboxing or code isolation systems.
- Hands-on familiarity with tooling for coordinating language models and autonomous agents.
- Strong grounding in how to assess and compare model quality against speed and cost.
Benefits
Compensation and benefits
- Base salary: USD 200,000 to 240,000 per year
- Equity
Location and work model
- New York City, NY, United States
- On-site, 5 days per week in office
- Full-time
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