Software Engineer

About the company

Our client is a software company.

The role

Raydar is recruiting for this role on behalf of our client. Join as an early engineering hire, designing, building and owning production features of an AI-driven software platform from first idea through release. The role involves working closely with technical leadership, internal subject-matter experts and clients to turn real operational needs into shipped software.

What you'll do

- Build and own a conversational search and analysis feature that lets users query large bodies of data and generate work products.

- Design and ship automated multi-step workflows, including structured data extraction and tool-calling systems that run reliably at scale.

- Build the supporting infrastructure that keeps language-model features production-ready, including evaluation, observability, structured outputs, error handling and monitoring.

- Work with clients and internal experts to understand operations, spot automation opportunities and deliver features end-to-end.

- Partner closely with technical leadership to develop deep expertise in your area of the platform and eventually own it independently.

Requirements

What we're looking for

- Background building business-to-business AI products or large-scale document processing systems.

- A track record of delivering and maintaining live software where reliability matters.

- Hands-on experience with LLM agents, tool-calling and multi-step AI workflows, including handling nondeterminism and context management.

- Strong backend engineering skills in Python at platform scale.

- Comfort designing database schemas for layered, interconnected information.

- Understanding of retrieval-augmented generation.

- Ability to own features end-to-end without detailed specs or design support, communicating proactively.

- A four-year degree.

- Ability to work on-site five days a week.

Benefits

Compensation and benefits

- Base salary: USD 165,000 to 185,000 per year

- Equity

Location and work model

- New York, NY, United States

- On-site, 5 days per week in office

- Full-time