AI Engineer

About the company Our client is a fast-growing technology company. The role Raydar is recruiting for this role on behalf of our client. Own the technical build and delivery of a tailored AI solution for a large client, from design through live rollout. Work daily with a distributed engineering group and serve as a technical point of contact for the client's engineers. What you'll do - Adapt a core AI platform to a large client's environment, owning the work from design through rollout. - Collaborate daily with a remote engineering team to bring client-specific changes back into the shared codebase. - Own production releases, integrations and reliability of AI systems in a regulated setting. - Act as the main technical contact for the client's engineers, with roughly 20% of time spent in client-facing work. - Diagnose complex production issues and drive them to resolution with little oversight. Requirements What we're looking for - 6 to 12 years of software engineering experience. - Solid Python development background on backend or full-stack work, delivering features powered by machine learning from start to finish. - Track record of releasing LLM-based or agent-style systems that real outside users depend on in live environments. - Recent experience as an engineer at a high-growth startup delivering software to business customers. - Strong skills in software architecture and system design, with the ability to carry technical delivery from start to finish. - Based on the US East Coast and available during Eastern time hours. - BS in Computer Science or a related field. Bonus points - Familiarity with cloud platforms, Kubernetes, CI/CD and observability tooling, without needing a pure infrastructure profile. Benefits Compensation and benefits - Base salary: USD 200,000 to 350,000 per year - Equity Location and work model - Remote (US) - Full-time