Lead AI Engineer

About the company Our client is a fast-growing software company. The role Raydar is recruiting for this role on behalf of our client. Serve as an early, senior full-stack engineer building AI-driven applications, owning the design and delivery of both back-end and user-facing systems. Work closely with product, design and engineering colleagues while helping set technical direction and engineering standards. What you'll do - Partner with engineers, product managers and designers to architect, build and own a user-facing application. - Design intelligent solutions that span back-end and front-end systems. - Promote sound engineering practices and help shape technical strategy and roadmaps. - Help define how the team measures success. - Initiate, influence and drive technical projects from idea through delivery. Requirements What we're looking for - 4+ years of experience building AI products. - Experience at a SaaS startup. - Proficiency in Python and SQL/Postgres. - Experience building AI applications and agents with common agent frameworks. - Experience working with large language model APIs from leading providers. - Exposure to containerized deployments and a major cloud platform. - Professional experience with CI/CD and git. - Daily use of AI coding tools. - A computer science degree. - Comfort with challenging, ambiguous and fast-changing problems, and a desire for broad impact as an early team member. Bonus points - Experience monitoring LLM-based systems. - Experience training models. Benefits Compensation and benefits - Base salary: USD 175,000 to 300,000 per year - Equity - Relocation support Location and work model - New York, New York, United States - On-site, 5 days per week in office - Full-time