Software Engineer - Applied AI / Product Engineering

Location: New York, United States (Office) - NYC - SoHo Office

On-Site | Full-time

Compensation: $160K - $250K

We are hiring on behalf of our client, a high-growth, Series A-backed artificial intelligence company operating in the commercial real estate (CRE) sector who is seeking an experienced Software Engineer – Applied AI / Product Engineering to join its engineering team in New York City.

Our client delivers an enterprise-grade AI platform that automates complex commercial real estate workflows, integrating email, financial models, presentation decks, and property databases into a unified, intelligent system. Having already secured enterprise multi-year contracts with top global commercial brokerages, the organization is scaling rapidly to meet significant market demand.

This role focuses on designing, building, and deploying AI-driven products and agentic systems. The ideal candidate thrives in a fast-paced environment, takes full end-to-end ownership of features, and continuously explores evolving AI paradigms to build robust, practical solutions for enterprise users.

Key Responsibilities

• Product & AI Engineering: Design, build, and deploy agent-centric software architectures and end-to-end AI workflows beyond basic conversational interfaces.
• End-to-End Feature Ownership: Manage the full product development lifecycle—from sitting directly with end-users to understand core pain points, through architectural design, implementation, and deployment.
• Agent Evaluation & Harnessing: Develop, maintain, and defend robust evaluation frameworks, harness selections, and context management strategies (context window optimization, filtering, and retrieval).
• Domain Knowledge Extraction: Collaborate directly with industry domain experts to distill complex workflow logic into structured system requirements, prompts, and evaluation metrics.
• Continuous Paradigm Evaluation: Actively benchmark, test, and re-evaluate emerging LLM models, frameworks, and agent paradigms to continuously refine and improve system performance.

Requirements

• Proven AI Engineering Experience: Demonstrated track record of shipping production-level software with autonomous LLM agents or workflows at its core.
• Full-Stack / Product Mindset: Ability to own features end-to-end without relying on static product specs or partial hand-offs.
• Technical Rigor & System Design: Ability to defend technical design choices around context management, system evaluation, framework choices, and agent harnesses.
• Strong AI Curiosity: Proactive approach to testing new models, agentic frameworks, and AI tools as they are released.
• Fast Learning & Domain Synthesis: Capability to rapidly absorb complex domain expertise (e.g., financial underwriting or commercial real estate logic) and translate it into technical specifications.
• On-Site Availability: Ability to work full-time on-site, five days a week, at the SoHo, NYC office.

Benefits

• Competitive base salary and equity packages reflecting early-stage growth.
• Comprehensive health, dental, and vision insurance options.
• Opportunity to work directly alongside founding leadership in a high-density, collaborative environment.
• Direct involvement in defining product architecture for enterprise AI applications.

Interview Process

• Initial Recruiter Screening: Conversation to discuss experience, background, and alignment with the role.
• Technical Deep-Dive / System Design: Technical discussion focusing on past AI project execution, agent architecture, and system evaluation design choices.
• On-Site / Product Execution Session: Practical problem-solving and domain synthesis exercise with the core engineering team.
• Final Leadership Interview: Alignment on team vision, culture, and final offer details.

Due to the high volume of applications we anticipate, we regret that we are unable to provide individual feedback to all candidates. If you do not hear back from us within 4 weeks of your application, please assume that you have not been successful on this occasion. We genuinely appreciate your interest and wish you the best in your job search.

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