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$165,000 - 185,000/ year

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About the Role

Join an early-stage AI company building a platform for commercial real estate portfolio research and operations. As the first dedicated engineering hire, you will work closely with the CTO and domain experts to turn client needs into production software with substantial ownership.

Responsibilities

  • Build and own a portfolio research and chat interface for querying enterprise data, generating work products, and conducting analysis.
  • Design and ship reliable agentic workflows, including structured extraction, tool calling, and multi-step AI pipelines.
  • Develop production infrastructure for LLM systems, including evaluations, observability, context construction, structured outputs, and failure handling.
  • Work with clients and domain experts to identify automation opportunities and deliver features from discovery through production.
  • Partner with the CTO to develop deep platform expertise and take independent ownership of your area.

Requirements

  • One to three years of experience as a software engineer, founding engineer, or founding AI engineer, with a four-year degree.
  • Strong backend engineering skills in Python, plus familiarity with TypeScript, React, and AWS.
  • Hands-on experience building LLM agents, tool-calling systems, and multi-step AI workflows, including managing nondeterminism and context.
  • Understanding of retrieval-augmented generation and experience designing relational data models for complex, hierarchical information.
  • Experience building B2B AI products or document-processing systems, and shipping production software in a high-stakes B2B environment.
  • Ability to own platform features end-to-end, communicate proactively, and work effectively with limited specifications.

Conditions

Base salary: $165,000 to $185,000 annually. Visa sponsorship is not available.

On-site, five days per week in New York, New York.

Where you’d work

From the office, 4 or more days a week in the office

No visa sponsorship

About the company

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Office in New York, United States

Your chances

Still hiring, not crowded yet, and you'd be among the first.

  • 18 checks run
  • 7 good signs
  • 3 red flags

Still hiring?

11 checks

Actively hiring

In its favour4

  • Still on the company's own careers site, checked 1 h agoModerate evidence
  • Found in the last 48 hours, before the big job boardsModerate evidence
  • Specific about the basics: pay, place, level, stack and contract all statedSlight evidence
1 moreFewer
  • A tight salary range, set for one seat: $165K to $185KSlight evidence

Against it2

  • Listed for the 10th time after earlier listings of it closedModerate evidence
  • Posted 5 times at once for the same place: mass postings are often a pipeline, not one seatSlight evidence

How crowded?

7 checks

Low

In its favour3

  • In its Early Window: not on the big job boards yetStrong evidence
  • In the office in New York: only people nearby can take itSlight evidence
  • In the office 4 or more days a week: most applicants want lessSlight evidence

Against it1

  • Entry level: the most applied-to level there isModerate evidence

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Details11 facts · Role, Location, Compensation, Employment
Tech stack
  • React
  • TypeScript
  • Python
  • AWS
  • LLMs
  • RAG
Type
Full-time
Specialty
Backend
Region
United States
Pay period
Annual
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Role

Category
Development
Specialty
Backend
Tech stack
  • React
  • TypeScript
  • Python
  • AWS
  • LLMs
  • RAG

Location

Work model
Office
Region
United States
Office
  • New York, United States
Days in the office
4 or more days
Visa sponsorship
Not sponsored

Compensation

Salary
$165,000 - 185,000 / year
Pay period
Annual

Employment

Type
Full-time

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