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Senior Applied AI Engineer

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18 days ago

Base Salary

$200k - $240k/yr

Responsibilities

  • Own the real-time, multi-turn LLM orchestration layer for the AI Moderator, including prompt and context design, model routing, and latency optimization.
  • Build production evals, monitoring, and guardrails so AI quality issues are identified before reaching customers.
  • Develop production APIs and services that convert interview data into structured, queryable customer insights.
  • Partner with product, data engineering, research, and the founding team to ship AI-powered research assets and define the retrieval and generation stack.
  • Improve retrieval relevance and downstream LLM processing through labeled data, evaluation, prompt or code iteration, and re-evaluation.
  • Help architect an MCP and the tools supporting the AI orchestration layer.

Requirements

  • 5+ years of experience building and shipping applied AI/ML systems in production, ideally including startup experience.
  • Deep hands-on experience with LLM prompt and system design, retrieval-augmented generation, tool or function calling, and structured outputs across multiple model providers.
  • Strong backend engineering skills in Python or TypeScript, including designing and shipping APIs and microservices.
  • Experience with vector databases, search, and optimizing retrieval quality and latency at scale.
  • Comfort working with unstructured data such as audio, transcripts, and financial documents and building pipelines that make it model-ready.
  • Ability to take problems from prototype through production with a high degree of ownership.
  • Preferred experience with agentic or multi-turn conversational systems, production evaluation frameworks, speech-to-text models, ETL and data engineering, and fintech, research, or AI-driven data-intensive startups.
  • Preferred familiarity with Deepgram, AssemblyAI, Whisper, or similar speech-to-text systems.

Benefits

  • Competitive base salary plus bonus; compensation amount is not specified.
  • Meaningful early-stage equity grant tied to company growth.
  • Health coverage, flexible paid time off, and paid holidays.
  • Full-time, in-person work in New York City.
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