Software Engineer, Applied AI Financial services technology company New York $200k to $300k USD base a year

# Software Engineer, Applied AIFinancial services technology company* LocationNew York* TypeFull-time* Posted6 October 2026Apply for this roleTalk to us firstYou apply on Workable, where Raydar manages applications.The role, as published## About the companyOur client is a financial services technology company.## The roleRaydar is recruiting for this role on behalf of our client. Own the design and delivery of AI-driven features end to end, from backend services and orchestration logic to user-facing interfaces. Work closely with a small, in-person engineering team to ship dependable, well-tested systems and build the measurement tooling that shows whether they are getting better.## What you'll do* **Build autonomous software agents that handle complex**, multi-step tasks using planning, code execution, search and retrieval.* **Develop background agents that triage communications**, process meetings and draft messages on behalf of users.* **Create the orchestration layer that connects language models**, context, tools, retrieval and business logic reliably.* **Design interactive interfaces where** users and agents collaborate in real time.* **Build evaluation infrastructure that** measures both factual accuracy and subjective, judgment-based quality.* **Design memory and context** systems that capture and evolve an understanding of individual users over time.* Account for auditability, compliance and fast-changing datasets in system design.## What we're looking for* Have shipped AI agents to production that coordinate language models, call external tools and pull in relevant information.* Hands-on knowledge of LLM agent frameworks, retrieval-augmented generation, tool calling and prompt engineering.* Strong software engineering fundamentals, including APIs, data modeling and system design.* Background at a high-growth startup.* Comfort working with probabilistic systems and a rigorous, experiment-driven approach to quality.* A careful, high-standards mindset where accuracy matters and speed and reliability go together.* Kind, direct and low-ego collaboration style, and enthusiasm for working in the office five days a week.## Bonus points* Prior work creating quality-measurement tooling for AI systems whose outputs vary from run to run.* Background designing interactive front ends that keep a person involved in automated workflows.* Bachelor's degree in Computer Science.## Location and work model* New York City, NY, United States* On-site, 5 days per week in the office* Full-time## Compensation, as the posting describes it* EquityPay$200k to $300kUSD base a year #J-18808-Ljbffr