Kharon

Senior AI Engineer

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Base Salary

$160k - $200k/yr

Responsibilities

  • Design, develop, and ship AI application proof-of-concepts through rapid experimentation, feedback, and iteration.
  • Build and integrate MCP clients and servers, foundation model fine-tuning, and multi-agent orchestration frameworks.
  • Take features from concept to production by architecting data flows, writing code, containerizing services, and deploying them in secure cloud environments.
  • Partner with product managers, designers, engineers, and data scientists to develop scalable AI systems from business problems.
  • Develop production-grade data pipelines connecting data to and from AI systems.
  • Maintain internal development tools, CI/CD scripts, evaluation harnesses, dashboards, and secure sandbox environments.
  • Monitor AI systems and support explainability, ethical, regulatory, and performance standards.
  • Evaluate emerging AI/ML technologies and open-source frameworks and share best practices.

Requirements

  • Bachelor's or master's degree in computer science, artificial intelligence, engineering, or a related field is preferred.
  • Strong Python software development skills and experience with LangChain, LangGraph, agent SDKs, Pydantic, SQLAlchemy, Alembic, PySpark, Polars, or Pandas.
  • Experience with MLflow, Sentry, RAG systems, memory systems, MCP servers, agent skills, and model tradeoffs.
  • Ability to use AI development tools such as Cursor and Claude Code for rapid development.
  • Familiarity with Docker, AWS, and GitHub Actions for containerization and cloud deployment.
  • Demonstrated ability to ship high-quality, production-ready ML/AI systems under tight iteration cycles.
  • Strong problem-solving, communication, and cross-functional collaboration skills, with interest in high-stakes or regulated domains.

Benefits

  • Fully sponsored medical, dental, and vision insurance.
  • Medical and dependent-care FSA programs.
  • Long-term disability coverage.
  • 401(k) and Roth plans with matching and immediate vesting.
  • Flexible paid time off and 11 paid holidays.
  • New York City-based role requiring in-office attendance at least three days per week.
  • Base salary range of $160,000 to $200,000, excluding potential bonuses, commissions, benefits, or equity.

Tech Stack

AWSDockerGitHub ActionsMLflowPandasPython
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About Kharon

51-200 employees

Kharon builds a risk intelligence platform and datasets that map connections to sanctioned and other high‑risk actors, supporting sanctions, anti‑money laundering, export controls, forced labor, and third‑party due diligence. Delivered via SaaS and APIs backed by a research-driven knowledge graph, it supports compliance and investigative workflows for global banks, corporations, universities, and government agencies. Privately held and founded in 2016, Kharon is headquartered in Denver, Colorado.

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