Lead AI Engineer

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New York, NY, USA
In-Office
175K-300K Annually
Mid level
Professional Services • Consulting
The Role
Build and own AI-driven applications across backend and user-facing systems as an early full-stack engineer. Partner with product, design, and engineering teams to architect intelligent solutions, establish engineering practices, shape technical strategy, define success metrics, and drive technical projects from concept through delivery. The role requires AI product development, agent frameworks, LLM APIs, Python, SQL/PostgreSQL, cloud deployments, containerization, CI/CD, and Git experience.
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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

Skills Required

  • 4+ years of experience building AI products
  • Experience at a SaaS startup
  • Proficiency in Python and SQL/PostgreSQL
  • 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
  • Computer science degree
  • Experience monitoring LLM-based systems
  • Experience training models
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The Company
28 Employees
Year Founded: 2021

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.

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