Software Engineer, AI Agents

Recruiting from Scratch is recruiting for an unnamed company seeking a Software Engineer, AI Agents. The role builds production AI agents and LLM-powered decisioning systems, develops scalable backend infrastructure, and shapes AI product architecture and experiences for enterprise customers.

Responsibilities

• Design and build production-ready AI agents that help businesses automate customer engagement and marketing workflows
• Prototype and rapidly iterate AI-powered product experiences using modern LLMs and AI frameworks
• Build scalable backend systems supporting AI-powered decision making and intelligent automation
• Develop production-grade LLM pipelines capable of solving complex customer problems
• Build AI agents that analyze customer data, generate insights, and recommend business actions
• Work directly with the CTO and COO to prototype new AI product lines from concept through production
• Evaluate emerging AI models, frameworks, and methodologies to determine the best production architectures
• Design scalable backend services supporting AI workflows and enterprise customer data
• Build highly reliable production systems capable of serving enterprise-scale workloads
• Partner closely with Product, Engineering, and Design to create intuitive AI-assisted user experiences
• Make key technical decisions around AI architecture, backend systems, and product direction
• Improve engineering quality, scalability, performance, and reliability across AI products

Preferred

• Experience working as an early engineering hire or startup founder
• Bachelor's or higher degree in Computer Science, Mathematics, or a related technical field
• Degree from a top engineering university
• Coursework or practical experience in Artificial Intelligence or Machine Learning
• Early Engineering Experience
• Startup Founder Experience
• Bachelor's Degree
• Computer Science
• Mathematics
• Technical Degree
• Top Engineering University
• Artificial Intelligence
• Machine Learning

Benefits

• Visa Sponsorship Available
• Competitive Equity Package
• Remote-First Environment; preference for Bay Area candidates for occasional in-person collaboration
• Opportunity to define the future of AI-powered customer engagement
• Direct collaboration with the CTO and executive leadership
• High-impact ownership across AI strategy and product development
• Work on frontier LLM applications and AI agent systems
• Opportunity to influence major product lines
• High-performance engineering culture
• Rapid career growth opportunities

Company

• Technical recruiting for AI-native startups and VC-backed companies
• New York, New York, USA
• https://www.recruitingfromscratch.com/
• Founded in 2021
• 11-50 employees

Qualifications

• 5–12 years of software engineering experience
• Experience building core product features at high-growth VC-backed startups
• Experience shipping AI-powered production products from concept through launch
• Experience working in Series C–F startup environments or similarly fast-growing companies
• Experience building products with significant customer and business impact
• Demonstrated progression in ownership, technical scope, or engineering leadership
• Strong product mindset with demonstrated ability to build 0→1 products
• Strong backend software engineering experience
• Experience building complex AI applications beyond simple RAG implementations
• Experience architecting production AI systems and LLM-powered applications
• Strong proficiency with TypeScript and modern backend development
• Experience designing scalable distributed backend systems
• Experience rapidly prototyping AI-powered products
• Strong understanding of LLM architectures, prompting strategies, tool calling, and AI workflows
• Experience evaluating AI models and selecting appropriate production architectures
• Strong understanding of APIs, data infrastructure, and scalable backend services
• Ability to design production systems balancing reliability, scalability, latency, and cost
• Strong engineering fundamentals across system design, architecture, and software quality
• Strong communication skills
• Excellent product intuition
• High ownership mentality
• Strong customer empathy
• Comfortable operating with ambiguity
• Highly intellectually curious
• Structured problem solver
• Self-directed and proactive
• Strong collaboration across Product, Engineering, and Leadership
• Comfortable rapidly learning new technologies
• Passion for AI and building customer-facing products
• Open to Most Visa Types
• Experience working as an early engineering hire or startup founder
• Bachelor's or higher degree in Computer Science, Mathematics, or a related technical field
• Degree from a top engineering university
• Coursework or practical experience in Artificial Intelligence or Machine Learning

Required skills

• AI Agent Development, AI Model Evaluation, API Design, Backend Software Engineering, Data Infrastructure, Distributed Systems, LLM Architectures and Prompting, LLM-Powered Applications, Structured Problem Solving, System Design and Architecture, Tool Calling and AI Workflows, TypeScript

Preferred skills

• Degree from a top engineering university

Experience

• 5-12 years