Software Engineer, Applied AI
AuctorAI & company
New York$175,000 - $290,000Senior
Sequoia Capital
M12
HubSpot Ventures
Y Combinator
Workday Ventures
OneStream
Data & AI
About the role
TL;DR
Design, build, and improve core systems behind AI agents.
- •As a Software Engineer, Applied AI at Auctor, you will design, build, and improve the core systems behind our agents in production.
- •Key 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 Turn traces, failures, and user behavior into concrete product and architecture decisions Work closely with operations, GTM, and deployed teams to understand real workflows and where agents break down Evaluate models, prompts, and system designs across real enterprise tasks Requirements Strong engineering fundamentals and the ability to ship production systems Fluency in Python Experience building or working on LLM-powered products, agent systems, or adjacent applied AI systems An empirical mindset
- •you reach for logs, traces, experiments, and real usage before guessing Strong systems taste
- •you understand that retrieval, prompting, memory, tools, and UX interact High ownership and comfort working in ambiguity Strong opinions about what makes agent systems actually work
Required skills
PythonLLMs
Domain expertise
ai
Benefits & perks
Equity, Competitive salary, Medical, dental, and vision coverage, Monthly wellness stipend, Unlimited PTO, Daily meal stipend, Weekly happy hours and team outings
Tech stack
PythonLLMs