Sr Applied AI Engineer

Posted 29 January 2026
Salary 250000
LocationNew York
Job type Permanent
Discipline Data & AI
Reference76080

Job description

Senior Applied AI Engineer (Agents, RAG & Production Systems)

We’re partnering with a fast-growing, Series A enterprise AI company transforming how major financial institutions automate and scale client-ready work. Their platform replaces complex, manual processes with production-grade AI systems used by global teams.

The Role

This is a hands-on, high-ownership role building core AI infrastructure. You’ll design and deploy multi-agent systems, RAG pipelines, and evaluation frameworks, shipping AI features into production at real scale. You’ll work closely with founders and collaborate across the stack, from backend services to deployment pipelines.

What You’ll Do

  • Build and deploy backend services and APIs (Python preferred)

  • Design and operate production AI systems including RAG and agent orchestration

  • Own performance, reliability, and scalability of AI features

  • Build data pipelines for model training and evaluation

  • Mentor engineers and uphold strong engineering standards

What We’re Looking For

  • 5+ years of software engineering experience

  • Proven experience shipping AI systems to production

  • Strong backend engineering skills (Python, relational databases)

  • Experience with cloud infrastructure, Docker, CI/CD, Redis, and task queues

  • Familiarity with LLM evaluation, monitoring, and AI reliability

Why Join

  • Work directly with experienced founders with prior successful exits

  • Competitive salary and equity

  • High-impact role at an early stage Series A company

  • Hard problems, fast pace, real ownership