Arc

Applied AI Engineer

Arc

full-time

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Location Type: Hybrid

Location: New York CityNew YorkUnited States

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Salary

💰 $180,000 - $300,000 per year

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