Artificial Intelligence Engineer

Fudo Partners
New York, New York, United StatesFull-time$200,000–$300,000Posted Aug 27, 2026

About the role

AI Engineer | NYC | $200k - $300k

What have you built with AI?

We're looking for exceptional engineers to join a team building an AI-native product at an exciting stage of its growth.

The technology is moving incredibly quickly. We're looking for people who want to move with it.

You'll be given difficult problems, significant ownership and the freedom to experiment with new approaches, then turn the things that work into robust production systems.

You could find yourself:

Building intelligent agents

Working with the latest foundation models

Designing retrieval and reasoning systems

Developing evaluation frameworks

Building AI infrastructure

Solving problems around reliability, latency and cost

Taking experimental ideas all the way into production

Working directly with product and engineering leadership to decide what gets built

We're not looking for a particular career path.

We're looking for people who are technically curious, excellent engineers and genuinely excited

about AI.

If you've built something interesting, tell us about it.

If you've taken an existing AI capability and pushed it somewhere it wasn't designed to go, tell

us about it.

If you've spent your evenings experimenting with models, agents or AI applications, tell us about

it.

And if you've spent years building sophisticated production systems and are now looking to go

deeper into AI, we want to hear from you too.

Strong engineering fundamentals matter. So does curiosity.

Most importantly, we want people who want to build.

If that sounds like you, apply below.

Responsibilities

  • Building intelligent agents
  • Working with the latest foundation models
  • Designing retrieval and reasoning systems
  • Developing evaluation frameworks
  • Building AI infrastructure
  • Solving problems around reliability, latency and cost
  • Taking experimental ideas all the way into production
  • Working directly with product and engineering leadership to decide what gets built

Qualifications

  • Strong engineering fundamentals
  • Technically curious
  • Experience in building sophisticated production systems

Skills mentioned

Generative AILarge Language ModelsAI AgentsRetrieval-Augmented GenerationModel EvaluationModel DeploymentLLMOpsPerformance OptimizationTransformersTool Calling

About Fudo Partners

Fudo Partners is a specialist search firm focused exclusively on founding and early engineering hires for venture backed AI startups. We partner with Seed to Series B founders to identify exceptional builders who shape products, teams and companies.

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