Applied AI Engineer

About the role

Role – Applied AI Engineer

Location – Central New York City – 5 days per week onsite

Salary - $200,000–$300,000

The Opportunity

If you live and breathe AI agents (whether that's through your day job, the products you build in your spare time, or probably both) this could be a very interesting next move. We're working with a rapidly growing, well-funded Series B AI software business applying agentic AI to complex, real-world workflows.

They've established a specialist AI Engineering team within the organisation focused on a bigger question: how can agents fundamentally change the way a company operates and how work gets done? You'll have the freedom and resources to experiment with the latest models, coding agents and tooling. However, the goal isn't experimentation for its own sake, they want the outcome and for the Applied AI Engineers to build agents and products that improve productivity and optimization for employees across the organisation.

You will get the opportunity to develop the Software Factory for a company whose aim is the be one of the most innovative companies in the world!

The Role

You'll:

Work directly with users to understand workflows, problems and opportunities for automation

Think beyond the code – understanding the underlying domain, workflows and desired outcome before deciding what to build

Design and build agents that perform meaningful, complex work

Experiment extensively with different models, Agent SDKs and emerging LLM tooling

Build full-stack products and infrastructure around agentic workflows

Develop evaluation and monitoring approaches to understand how agents are performing

Build tools and integrations that give agents access to the right systems, data and organisational knowledge

Operate with significant ownership over both the problem and the solution

The Person

We're looking for an exceptional product-minded engineer who is genuinely excited by where agentic software is heading.

You'll ideally bring:

Approximately 2–7 years' commercial software engineering experience

A strong academic background from a leading global university

Experience within a high-growth technology/startup environment

Evidence of building and shipping products & solutions

Strong full-stack engineering skills – TypeScript and/or Python would be particularly relevant

Meaningful hands-on experience building AI agents or agentic products, either professionally or through substantial personal projects

Experience experimenting with different LLMs, agent frameworks, SDKs and AI development tools

A strong product mentality and willingness to work directly with users

High levels of autonomy and comfort tackling ambiguous, open-ended problems

You may have been a Founding Engineer, early startup employee or someone who wants to build a company yourself one day. More important is the mentality: you're curious about the entire problem, not just the code required to solve one part of it.

This is an onsite environment in Central Manhattan, five days per week and the pay is $200-300k depending on experience and with a good benefits package on top.