Auctor

Auctor

Software Engineer, Applied AI

New York

Sponsorship not specified$175k-$290kDetected 112 days ago
PythonLLMs

About the role

  • This role sits at the boundary of engineering and empirical research.
  • Some weeks you will be shipping new capabilities.
  • Some weeks you will be mining production traces, designing evals, and figuring out which part of the system is actually failing.

Responsibilities

  • Build and improve the core systems behind our agents across retrieval, tool use, document understanding, memory, and orchestration
  • Design evals and experiments that help us understand agent quality in production
  • Evaluate models, prompts, and system designs across real enterprise tasks
  • Own the loop from idea -> implementation -> measurement -> iteration
  • Experience building or working on LLM-powered products, agent systems, or adjacent applied AI systems
  • As a Software Engineer, Applied AI at Auctor, you will design, build, and improve the core systems behind our agents in production.

Requirements

  • Strong engineering fundamentals and the ability to ship production systems
  • Experience with retrieval, search, or ranking systems
  • Experience designing evals, benchmarks, or feedback loops for LLM systems
  • Experience in startups or other high-ownership environments
  • We care much more about what you have built than whether your background fits a standard template.

Compensation

  • $175,000-$290,000 base salary, plus equity.
  • Competitive, top-of-market salary

Benefits

  • Equity with real upside - you're joining early, and your equity reflects that
  • Medical, dental, and vision coverage
  • Monthly wellness stipend
  • Unlimited PTO - take the time you need
  • Daily meal stipend, plus dinner covered on the nights you're working late

Company info

  • We are not looking for someone to glue an API onto a product and call it AI.

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