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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