AI Engineer Jobs in New York

Retool

Retool is building the future of internal software development, making it safe and efficient to ship custom applications powered by AI. As AI capabilities expand, the challenge shifts from accessing models to ensuring the reliability, evaluability, and trustworthiness of these non-deterministic systems in production. We are seeking AI Engineers to own this critical problem end-to-end. This role is for individuals who are passionate about managing probabilistic systems, measuring quality amidst variance, and driving continuous improvement without introducing regressions.

$164k - $306k

OpenAI

OpenAI is seeking a Forward Deployed Engineer (FDE) to lead the end-to-end deployment of its AI models within financial services organizations. This role involves partnering with banks, asset managers, and other financial firms to integrate AI systems into high-stakes environments, focusing on correctness, latency, explainability, and control. You will work closely with customers to translate complex workflows and regulatory requirements into reliable, auditable production systems that deliver measurable business impact. Success will be measured by production adoption, workflow efficiency, risk reduction, and revenue impact, with feedback loops informing product and strategy. This position also plays a key role in shaping OpenAI's financial services offerings by identifying use cases, defining solution patterns, and building scalable deployments.

$185k - $300k

Legora is redefining legal work with an AI-native workspace designed for legal professionals. Our platform enables users to analyze documents rapidly, streamline workflows, and enhance precision, allowing them to focus on strategic judgment and outcomes. Trusted by over 2,100 customers globally, Legora has achieved significant ARR growth and continues to expand through strategic acquisitions. We foster a culture of ownership, excellence, and continuous growth, where impact and pace are paramount. The IT Platform & Automation team is responsible for Legora's identity, device, and SaaS systems, ensuring their reliability as the company scales. As an Automation Engineer on this team, you will be instrumental in managing and enhancing our automation capabilities, including the Serval platform, and identifying new opportunities for automation in partnership with various business units.

$134k - $203k

Ramp

Ramp is seeking an Applied Scientist Intern to join their team and contribute to solving critical business problems through machine learning. As an intern, you will be a fully integrated member, owning a project from inception to completion. You will collaborate with engineers, product managers, and business stakeholders to translate complex business needs into scalable, ML-driven solutions. This role offers the opportunity to apply ML in a practical setting, ship code, and create tangible value for Ramp and its customers, focusing on areas like credit, fraud, growth, or the core product.

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Metal is seeking a Forward Deployed Engineer to join a strategic account at a leading private capital firm. This role involves embedding with the customer to own the entire process from scoping to production deployment of AI-driven workflows. You will bridge the gap between a top-tier investment team and their AI evolution, combining engineering expertise with customer empathy to reshape investment firm operations. This is a senior, high-autonomy position focused on delivering tangible customer outcomes.

$150k - $240k

Mercor is seeking a Software Engineer for their Applied AI - Frontier Engineering team to build, deploy, and operate systems that bridge frontier AI research and data delivery. This role involves high ownership and deep technical work, tackling ill-defined problems, prototyping with researchers and customers, and scaling systems from experiments to production. You will manage projects end-to-end, including requirements gathering, data creation pipelines, and improving model-adjacent infrastructure, while collaborating with AI labs and internal teams to deliver impactful applied AI solutions.

$160k - $500k

Swayable

Swayable is a fast-growing AI and automated data science platform that measures public opinion and the impact of messages and advertising content on it. We are a 40-person team backed by top technology and social impact investors, including Y Combinator. The Director of AI will be a builder, researcher, developer, and thought-partner to the CEO and CTO, responsible for discovering, prototyping, and proving out high-value applications of cutting-edge AI across business operations, product, and fundamental research. This role offers a unique opportunity to leverage significant resources, including a large dataset of RCT survey experiment results, an established team of engineers and scientists, academic partnerships, and direct access to enterprise customers for rapid product development.

$175k - $250k

Lightning AI is seeking an AI Platform Support Engineer to join their US Customer Experience team. This role is designed for individuals who are technical partners to ML teams, helping them diagnose and resolve complex issues related to large-scale training and inference workloads across cloud infrastructure, Kubernetes, and GPU platforms. You will be instrumental in supporting engineers as they train models, deploy inference systems, and scale GPU workloads in production, tackling problems ranging from Kubernetes scheduling and GPU orchestration to distributed PyTorch failures, inference latency, networking, and storage performance. This position offers exposure to diverse AI workloads and the opportunity to shape the infrastructure powering future ML applications.

$115k - $140k

Faire is a technology wholesale platform connecting independent retailers with global product discovery. We are seeking a Staff Product Engineer to join our Discovery Search team (Search FX). This role will be a primary technical architect for our retailer-facing search surfaces, owning the technical roadmap for search, recommendations, and Gen-AI experiences. You will bridge the gap between high-scale infrastructure and user experience, unifying retrieval, ranking, and personalization into a cohesive, high-performance system. You will integrate LLM-powered capabilities, solve complex scale problems, and drive cross-functional impact while mentoring the team.

$231k - $318k

Ambral

Ambral Labs is building a platform to help enterprises leverage their historical data to improve AI model performance. The system reconstructs past company workflows into replayable environments, allowing for the evaluation and enhancement of agent behavior through reinforcement learning and other post-training techniques. This enables companies to develop better, more cost-efficient AI models that they own and control, rather than relying on third-party providers. Having graduated from YC and secured significant funding, Ambral Labs is now expanding its founding team.

$165k - $325k