Applied AI Engineer

New York

Software Engineering

Permanent

Our client, an AI-driven startup impacting the digital media sector, are hiring a Applied AI Engineer to join their team in Brooklyn, New York. The successful candidate will work directly with the founders to define how creative professionals interact with AI in the generative era, from designing, implementing and scaling the core agentic workflows that enable seamless orchestration of text, image, and video models.

Responsibilities

Design and build the organization’s intelligence layer, agentic systems that power reliable, intuitive and multi-step creative workflows.
Seamlessly integrate text, image and video models into experiences that creatives trust and enjoy.
Collaborate closely with product, design and infrastructure teams to develop agentic features that let creatives bring ideas to life while keeping full control.
Ensure robustness and reliability through evaluation frameworks, memory and retrieval strategies, and sophisticated orchestration across models, APIs and tools.

Skillset

Minimum of 3 years of engineering experience.
Hands-on experience building agentic systems (multi-step pipelines, memory-enabled assistants or tool-using agents).
Strong skills in system evaluation, regression testing and human-in-the-loop validation.
Expertise in memory and retrieval strategies (vector databases, embeddings, context management).
Experience orchestrating models, APIs and tools (handling retries, fallbacks and edge cases).
Comfort reasoning about multi-modal workflows and integrating them into user-facing products.
Ability to work across the full stack and collaborate with product and design teams.
A Product-minded mindset, such as valuing usability and creative control as much as technical innovation.
Experience with creative tools, generative models or node-based interfaces is a bonus.