AI Engineer

Nu Image® is building a new in-person engineering hub in New Jersey, and this role will serve as an AI engineering founding member. Working closely with the CTO, you will build and own agent-driven development and production code, with a strong focus on verification, secure handling of sensitive data, and hands-on debugging.

Role Focus

• Own AI engineering and hands-on code development for Nu Image’s agent-driven workflows.
• Work directly with the CTO to translate architecture and priorities into shipped systems.
• Review agent output line by line, debug and fix by hand when agents miss the mark, and ship reliable solutions for a telehealth environment.

Key Responsibilities

• Understand the system architecture and read every line the agents produce.
• Verify agent output using tests first, reviewing diffs line by line, and avoiding changes that only “look right.”
• Address production failures through direct fixes rather than relying on the agent as the source of truth.
• Identify gaps, then fix them or build improved approaches; contribute beyond the initially requested scope.
• Build a modern web platform and internal tools that are enjoyable to use.
• Create integrations and automation to reduce busywork and connect systems.
• Design AI-powered workflows, including agent setups, guardrails, and review steps that enable a small core to deliver at scale.
• Implement secure, reliable, well-tested systems with healthcare-grade privacy and security from day one.
• Run agents in parallel on branches, review diffs, push back on weak code, and implement the tricky parts yourself.
• Lead whiteboard sessions for new ideas, then convert the most promising concepts into working prototypes.
• Tackle complex debugging using logs, queries, a debugger, and iterative investigation.
• Spot issues before they are requested, such as slow queries, flaky jobs, or tools that would save time, then take action.
• Communicate outcomes by documenting what shipped, what broke, and what should be attempted next.

Required Qualifications

• Daily experience shipping with AI coding agents such as Cursor, the Grok ecosystem (including Grok Bot), and similar tooling, with a proven workflow.
• Up-to-date understanding of today’s AI tools and how they change month to month.
• Hands-on experience designing real agent workflows, including task breakdown, parallel agents, prompt and agent orchestration, and review loops.
• Strict output verification habits: tests first, diff review line by line, and no blind trust in superficial correctness.
• Ability to keep sensitive data (customer information, secrets, credentials) out of prompts, logs, and unapproved tools.
• Capability to build and debug without AI when needed, including reading unfamiliar code, stepping through it, and fixing by hand.
• Strong software architecture judgment, including the ability to foresee how an agent’s design choices may cause future issues.
• Proficiency in PHP and Laravel: queues, jobs, the scheduler, events, and Eloquent without N+1 issues.
• Strong SQL skills using MySQL: schema design, indexing, migrations, query plan reading, and writing queries.
• Debugging experience with logs, stack traces, Xdebug or similar, reproducing issues, and locating root causes.
• Security and privacy best practices including authentication and authorization, input validation, encryption, least privilege, OWASP top risks, and secrets handling.
• Ability to commute to the Mahwah / Wyckoff area and preference for being in the office.

Technologies

• Cursor, Grok, Grok Bot
• PHP, Laravel, Eloquent
• MySQL, Xdebug
• Vue, Tailwind
• REST APIs, Redis
• AWS, Pest, PHPUnit, GitHub Actions
• Laravel Nova, Filament, Terraform, AWS CDK, Pulumi
• MCP, Laravel Horizon, Octane, Pulse, Reverb

Benefits

• Founding member of the NJ office and an opportunity to help shape how it operates.
• First dibs on the whiteboard.
• Opportunity to choose the office coffee machine.
• Ability to name the agents.
• Close proximity to the CEO for fast decisions on ideas.
• Ideas are expected to move forward rather than sitting in a backlog for months.

About Nu Image®

• Nu Image® is a US telehealth company founded in 2004 and online since 2008.
• LegitScript certified and serving all 50 states.
• A new office is opening in the Mahwah / Wyckoff area of New Jersey, with this role based there in person.
• Website: https://nuimage.com

Nice-to-Haves

• Infrastructure as code experience (Terraform, AWS CDK, Pulumi, or similar).
• Observability experience including structured logs, metrics, tracing, and alerts.
• Experience building MCP servers, agent tools, or custom agent integrations.
• Prompt and agent eval experience.
• Experience with Laravel Horizon, Octane, Pulse, or Reverb.
• Threat modeling and secrets management beyond the basics.
• Open-source work, side projects, or talks at meetups.

Application Instructions

• Email [email protected] with the subject line “AI Engineer – NJ”.
• Include your GitHub, portfolio, or links to work you have shipped.
• Send a short note (a few paragraphs) describing the coolest thing you built with AI agents, including what it did, how you set up the agents, what went wrong, and how you fixed it.
• Include where you’re based.
• No cover-letter templates; write as you would explain it to a friend.

Compensation and Work Location

• Salary: USD 75,000 - 105,000 per year
• Work location: In person
• Office location: Mahwah, NJ