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 + Equity

We're looking for people who are excited about building with AI.

We're working with a team building an ambitious AI product and are looking for engineers who want to work on problems where the answer doesn't already exist.

You'll be building and shipping AI systems into production, experimenting with the latest models and techniques, and figuring out how to turn rapidly evolving AI capabilities into something

genuinely useful.

You'll have the opportunity to work across areas such as:

LLMs and generative AI

AI agents and agentic systems

RAG and retrieval

Model evaluation and experimentation

AI infrastructure

Production ML systems

Performance, reliability and scale

We're particularly interested in people who build.

You might have spent the last few years working on sophisticated machine learning systems. You might be a software engineer who has gone deep into AI. You might have built AI products in your spare time, contributed to open source, experimented with new models, or simply become obsessed with what's possible.

We're much more interested in what you've built than what your current job title says.

You should have strong engineering fundamentals, be comfortable working with Python and modern AI tooling, and enjoy taking ideas from “could this work?” → “it's in production.”

This is a chance to join at an early stage, have genuine technical ownership and help shape the product and technology rather than simply inherit someone else's architecture.

If you're excited by the idea of building things that weren't possible a few years ago, we'd love to hear from you.

Apply below, even if you don't think your background fits the traditional definition of the role.

Responsibilities

  • Build and ship AI systems into production
  • Experiment with the latest models and techniques
  • Work on LLMs and generative AI
  • Develop AI agents and agentic systems
  • Conduct model evaluation and experimentation
  • Manage AI infrastructure
  • Create production ML systems
  • Ensure performance, reliability, and scale

Qualifications

  • Strong engineering fundamentals
  • Proficient in Python and modern AI tooling
  • Experience with sophisticated machine learning systems
  • Background in software engineering with a focus on AI

Benefits

  • Equity

Skills mentioned

PythonGenerative AILarge Language ModelsAI AgentsRetrieval-Augmented GenerationModel EvaluationMLOpsModel DeploymentPerformance OptimizationSystem Design

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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