Software Engineer, Applied AI

About the company Our client is a financial services technology company. The role Raydar is recruiting for this role on behalf of our client. Own the design and delivery of AI-driven features end to end, from backend services and orchestration logic to user-facing interfaces. Work closely with a small, in-person engineering team to ship dependable, well-tested systems and build the measurement tooling that shows whether they are getting better. What you'll do - Build autonomous software agents that handle complex, multi-step tasks using planning, code execution, search and retrieval. - Develop background agents that triage communications, process meetings and draft messages on behalf of users. - Create the orchestration layer that connects language models, context, tools, retrieval and business logic reliably. - Design interactive interfaces where users and agents collaborate in real time. - Build evaluation infrastructure that measures both factual accuracy and subjective, judgment-based quality. - Design memory and context systems that capture and evolve an understanding of individual users over time. - Account for auditability, compliance and fast-changing datasets in system design. Requirements What we're looking for - Have shipped AI agents to production that coordinate language models, call external tools and pull in relevant information. - Hands-on knowledge of LLM agent frameworks, retrieval-augmented generation, tool calling and prompt engineering. - Strong software engineering fundamentals, including APIs, data modeling and system design. - Background at a high-growth startup. - Comfort working with probabilistic systems and a rigorous, experiment-driven approach to quality. - A careful, high-standards mindset where accuracy matters and speed and reliability go together. - Kind, direct and low-ego collaboration style, and enthusiasm for working in the office five days a week. Bonus points - Prior work creating quality-measurement tooling for AI systems whose outputs vary from run to run. - Background designing interactive front ends that keep a person involved in automated workflows. - Bachelor's degree in Computer Science. Benefits Compensation and benefits - Base salary: USD 200,000 to 300,000 per year - Equity Location and work model - New York City, NY, United States - On-site, 5 days per week in the office - Full-time