
Applied AI Engineer
Arc
full-time
Posted on:
Location Type: Hybrid
Location: New York City • New York • United States
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Salary
💰 $180,000 - $300,000 per year
Tech Stack
About the role
- Collaborate with engineering, product, design, and leadership to build and improve AI-powered financial products.
- Build evaluation frameworks, model-improvement infrastructure, and production-grade AI systems.
- Rapidly prototype 0→1 and MVP experiences to unlock new value for Arc customers.
- Ship projects frequently and consistently, with strong bias to action.
- Architect and implement Generative AI applications using:
- Agentic workflows
- RAG systems
- State-of-the-art model leveraging techniques
- Optimize for inference performance, token efficiency, latency, and cost.
- Contribute to platform-level systems in Python and Typescript.
Requirements
- 5+ years of engineering experience
- 1+ years building AI-based applications
- Advanced degree in Computer Science or related field; Masters/PhD preferred
- Strong background in Generative AI, LLMs, and modern applied AI toolchains
- Demonstrated success building agentic systems, RAG architectures, or state-of-the-art model integrations
- Experience building evaluation pipelines for foundational-model applications
- Strong software engineering fundamentals
- Proven ability to independently drive 0→1, MVP development, and rapid prototyping.
Benefits
- Equity (stock options)
Applicant Tracking System Keywords
Tip: use these terms in your resume and cover letter to boost ATS matches.
Hard skills
PythonTypescriptGenerative AILLMsAI-based applicationsevaluation frameworksmodel-improvement infrastructureinference performance optimizationtoken efficiencylatency optimization
Soft skills
collaborationbias to actionindependent driverapid prototypingproject shipping
Certifications
Masters in Computer SciencePhD in Computer Science