Software Engineer

About the company

Our client is a fast-growing software company.

The role

Raydar is recruiting for this role on behalf of our client. Join a small engineering group building AI agent systems that write and run code reliably in production. The work spans backend services, memory and learning components, user-facing AI interactions and administrative controls, with a high degree of ownership from day one.

What you'll do

• Build learning and memory components that let an AI agent adapt to each user's context and data.
• Design and implement AI agents that write, run, debug and test code, and that recover gracefully from failures.
• Shape how users interact with AI and how their feedback is captured and used.
• Develop administrative control layers for managing applications, workflows, secrets and policies.
• Solve problems where AI, security and distributed systems meet, at large scale.

Requirements

What we're looking for

• 2+ years of software engineering experience.
• Experience shipping AI agent systems or LLM-powered applications to production.
• Strong backend engineering and database design skills.
• High agency and the ability to drive projects end-to-end without close direction.
• Based in New York City or willing to relocate immediately.
• Willingness to work in the office 5 days per week with demanding hours.

Bonus points

• Advanced degree (Master's or PhD) in computer science, AI/ML or distributed systems.
• Time spent at a fast-scaling startup or a company that builds core infrastructure.
• Background in security, sandboxing or code isolation systems.
• Hands-on familiarity with tooling for coordinating language models and autonomous agents.
• Strong grounding in how to assess and compare model quality against speed and cost.

Benefits

Compensation and benefits

Base salary

USD 200,000 to 240,000 per year

• Equity

Location and work model

• New York City, NY, United States
• On-site, 5 days per week in office
• Full-time