Applied AI Engineer

Location: New York, NY Compensation: $400K to $1M+ total compensation, with flexibility above the range for exceptional candidates

Overview

A technically demanding, research-driven organization is making a major investment in applied and agentic AI and needs an engineer to help define what that looks like in practice. The environment is dense with strong engineers, researchers, and quantitative thinkers, and the mandate is broad: find where modern AI can fundamentally change how sophisticated teams operate, then build the systems that make it real.

The role owns greenfield work end to end. That means taking ambitious ideas from first principles through architecture, implementation, and production, with significant autonomy, real resources, and direct organizational impact. This is not incremental feature work on a mature roadmap; it is the chance to build the first generation of AI systems for an