Senior Applied AI Engineer
Mural Group
About the role
Location: New York, NY (onsite, 5 days)
Pay: $220,000–$300,000 + equity
A fast-growing, venture-backed software and payments company is hiring an applied AI engineer to build agents its customers use every day. Each engineer owns a full product area, and work reaches customers the same week it's written.
What you'll do
Build production LLM agents for pricing, marketing and reporting
Extract structured data from messy real-world documents
Build embedding-based matching and retrieval
Own the evaluation and tracing harnesses
Take models from prototype to production, shipping weekly
What you bring
5+ years building and shipping AI products
Strong TypeScript and/or Python
Experience across the full AI lifecycle, including evals
Uses AI coding tools to work in parallel
BS, MS or PhD in CS or related, or equivalent experience
Nice to have: LLM context and harness engineering; LLM observability tooling; Postgres with vector search
Visa sponsorship available (H-1B transfers preferred).
Mural Group is recruiting for this role on behalf of a client. Apply here and a Mural recruiter will be in touch.
Responsibilities
- Build production LLM agents for pricing, marketing, and reporting
- Extract structured data from real-world documents
- Build embedding-based matching and retrieval systems
- Own evaluation and tracing harnesses
- Take models from prototype to production and ship weekly
Qualifications
- 5+ years building and shipping AI products
- Strong TypeScript and/or Python skills
- Experience across the full AI lifecycle, including evaluations
- Uses AI coding tools to work in parallel
- BS, MS, or PhD in computer science or a related field, or equivalent experience
- Nice to have: LLM context and harness engineering, LLM observability tooling, or Postgres with vector search
Benefits
- Equity
- H-1B transfer sponsorship available
Skills mentioned
About Mural Group
Mural Group is a multi-stage recruiting firm built by industry leading recruiting and staffing experts. We specialize in two distinct verticals--venture backed tech and industrial trades. Mural doesn’t operate like most recruiting firms. We operate like in-house recruiting partners–focused on building and executing a hiring strategy that aligns with your business objectives.