engineering
Posted Apr 2Software Engineer, Applied AI
at Auctor
New York, United StatesOn-site
Requirements
- WHY AUCTOR Auctor is building the AI layer for professional services and software implementation.
- ROLE OVERVIEW As a Software Engineer, Applied AI at Auctor, you will design, build, and improve the core systems behind our agents in production.
- You will work across retrieval, document understanding, tool use, context management, prompting, and orchestration.
- We are not looking for someone to glue an API onto a product and call it AI.
- We are looking for someone who wants to build real agent systems, understand how they behave in the wild, and use that understanding to make bold product and architecture decisions.
- WHAT YOU'LL DO - 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
- 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 STRONG CANDIDATES MAY ALSO HAVE -
- Experience with retrieval, search, or ranking systems -
- Experience designing evals, benchmarks, or feedback loops for LLM systems -
- Experience building internal tools, workflow products, or operator-facing systems -
- Experience in startups or other high-ownership environments EXAMPLE PROJECTS This is a new field.
Benefits
- Think of us as the brain behind the best solution engineers, forward-deployed engineers, and onboarding teams—automating the documentation, the discovery, and the decision-making that powers $400B+ in services work.
- COMPENSATION $175,000-$290,000 base salary, plus equity.
- BENEFITS - Early-stage equity - Competitive, top-of-market salary - Catered lunch and dinners