Applied AI Engineer | Production AI & LLM Systems

Bring applied AI to production at a company that prioritizes measurable impact, from marketplace growth to day-to-day operational efficiency. This hybrid role in New York, NY is built for engineers who enjoy owning AI initiatives end-to-end and turning real user feedback into improved model performance and better products. You will design, deploy, evaluate, and iterate on production LLM systems and related intelligence that support candidate-to-job matching and marketplace optimization.

What you’ll do

You will take responsibility for AI projects from the first business problem definition through architecture choices, deployment, evaluation, and continuous iteration. The work spans production AI systems, intelligent automation, and AI-powered capabilities that improve how users find and engage with opportunities.

• Own AI projects end-to-end, from defining the business problem and selecting the right model through deployment, evaluation, and iteration
• Build production AI systems supporting candidate-to-job matching and marketplace optimization
• Develop intelligent automation to replace or improve manual marketplace workflows
• Build AI-powered classification, extraction, content generation, and search capabilities
• Develop evaluation and experimentation systems focused on accuracy, consistency, and measurable results
• Build production AI functionality informed by real-world user feedback
• Develop tooling and infrastructure that accelerate AI development and iteration
• Connect technical decisions and AI capabilities to measurable business outcomes

How the time is split

• AI / ML Engineering (approximately 60%): model selection, prompt engineering, fine-tuning, LLM evaluation, embeddings, vector databases, AI experimentation, data pipelines
• Product Engineering (approximately 40%): APIs, backend services, product integrations, UI integration, AI-powered product features, production infrastructure

What you bring

• 4+ years of engineering experience REQUIRED
• Meaningful experience shipping AI/LLM features into production REQUIRED
• Experience owning AI projects end-to-end REQUIRED
• Strong understanding of model selection, data pipelines, deployment, and iteration REQUIRED
• Experience with LLM APIs, embeddings, vector databases, and fine-tuning REQUIRED
• Strong foundation in full-stack web development REQUIRED
• Ability to connect technical decisions to measurable business outcomes REQUIRED
• Must be legally authorized to work in the United States without sponsorship REQUIRED

Benefits

• $170,000-$230,000 base salary
• Equity
• Relocation support available for strong candidates

Work arrangement

• Full-time, permanent position
• New York City
• In-person collaboration strongly preferred
• Approximately 3 days per week in the office
• Must be legally authorized to work in the United States without sponsorship

Preferred

• Early-stage or high-growth startup experience Preferred
• Founding-team engineering experience Preferred
• Recruiting or talent industry experience Preferred
• Experience building marketplace, matching, search, or recommendation systems Preferred