About the company
Our client is a fast-growing technology company.
The role
Raydar is recruiting for this role on behalf of our client. Own the technical build and delivery of a tailored AI solution for a large client, from design through live rollout. Work daily with a distributed engineering group and serve as a technical point of contact for the client's engineers.
What you'll do
- Adapt a core AI platform to a large client's environment, owning the work from design through rollout.
- Collaborate daily with a remote engineering team to bring client-specific changes back into the shared codebase.
- Own production releases, integrations and reliability of AI systems in a regulated setting.
- Act as the main technical contact for the client's engineers, with roughly 20% of time spent in client-facing work.
- Diagnose complex production issues and drive them to resolution with little oversight.
Requirements
What we're looking for
- 6 to 12 years of software engineering experience.
- Solid Python development background on backend or full-stack work, delivering features powered by machine learning from start to finish.
- Track record of releasing LLM-based or agent-style systems that real outside users depend on in live environments.
- Recent experience as an engineer at a high-growth startup delivering software to business customers.
- Strong skills in software architecture and system design, with the ability to carry technical delivery from start to finish.
- Based on the US East Coast and available during Eastern time hours.
- BS in Computer Science or a related field.
Bonus points
- Familiarity with cloud platforms, Kubernetes, CI/CD and observability tooling, without needing a pure infrastructure profile.
Benefits
Compensation and benefits
- Base salary: USD 200,000 to 350,000 per year
- Equity
Location and work model
- Remote (US)
- Full-time
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