About the company
Our client is a small software company.
The role
Raydar is recruiting for this role on behalf of our client. Take early-stage software from server-side code to a usable interface, working alongside customers and technical leadership to shape what gets built next. Ownership of core systems begins on day one.
What you'll do
- Ship complete features across server-side code and the user interface.
- Spend time on site with the people who use the product to understand their daily work.
- Turn what you learn in the field into product direction alongside technical leadership.
- Own core systems from the early days of the product.
Requirements
What we're looking for
- Explains technical ideas clearly to both technical and non-technical people.
- Has shipped production software end to end, including backend and enough front end to make it real.
- Drives work independently, proposing problems to solve and approaches without waiting for direction.
- Background in young companies, particularly industry-focused software or AI teams that deal with older systems.
- Hands-on time at a company where artificial intelligence is the core product.
- Comfortable translating client needs into engineering specs and seeing the work through to launch.
- Experience putting large language model functionality into live products, including structured outputs, external tool invocation, chained agent steps and search-based context lookup.
- Proficient at making language-model software reliable in production: strict data contracts, guarding against fabricated output, keeping people in the review loop, and measuring quality with automated test suites and model-graded scoring.
- Willing to travel to customer locations around the US roughly twice each quarter.
Bonus points
- Past experience founding a company, or familiarity with car dealership operations.
- Experience with agent frameworks and agent-UI protocols.
- Familiarity with connecting to outside software services through authorization flows, event callbacks and data format translation.
- Experience with speech-to-text or multimodal work, such as voice or photo, in noisy real-world settings.
Benefits
Compensation and benefits
- Base salary: $187K - $220K
- Equity
- Health insurance coverage
Location and work model
- San Mateo, California, United States
- Hybrid, 3 days a week in office (Tuesday to Thursday)
- Full-time
Skills Required
- Clearly explain technical concepts to technical and non-technical audiences
- Production software development experience across backend and frontend systems
- Ability to work independently and propose problems and solutions
- Experience at young companies, particularly industry-focused software or AI teams working with legacy systems
- Hands-on experience at a company where artificial intelligence is the core product
- Experience translating client needs into engineering specifications and delivering through launch
- Experience deploying large language model functionality in live products, including structured outputs, external tool invocation, chained agent steps, and search-based context lookup
- Experience making language-model software reliable in production through strict data contracts, hallucination safeguards, human review, and automated quality evaluation
- Willingness to travel to customer locations across the United States approximately twice each quarter
- Experience founding a company
- Familiarity with car dealership operations
- Experience with agent frameworks and agent-UI protocols
- Experience integrating external software services through authorization flows, event callbacks, and data-format translation
- Experience with speech-to-text or multimodal systems in noisy real-world environments
What We Do
Raydar is a talent acquisition and business consulting firm that connects world-class and emerging talent with growing organizations. It supports companies through team development, strategic hiring, and customized growth solutions, helping clients recruit roles such as engineers, product managers, executives, legal counsel, and quantitative traders. Raydar focuses on understanding each organization’s needs, culture, and long-term goals to build high-impact teams.
