# AI Engineer - NYC

**Company:** [Sequence](https://hotfix.jobs/companies/sequence)
**Location:** New York, NY
**Role:** ML Engineering
**Salary:** $210k – $230k/yr
**Experience:** 3+ years
**Skills:** Llm Systems, Agentic Workflows, Evaluations Infrastructure, Kotlin, Postgres, Vertex Ai, Langsmith, GCP, TypeScript, React
**Posted:** 2026-05-15

> Build production-grade AI infrastructure and agentic systems for a revenue automation platform. Own end-to-end features from ideation through reliable deployment for business-critical finance workflows.

## Job Description

## What you'll be doing
- Build and own AI infrastructure for reliable software on non-deterministic models, including agentic workflows, prompt iteration, tools, and evals
- Develop AI-powered approval workflows: flexible routing configured in natural language that converts to deterministic, auditable business logic
- Create an intelligent collections agent: instruct in natural language to run workflows autonomously, collect context, and handle payments

## Requirements
- Shipped LLM-based systems to real customers with first-hand production failure experience
- Designed agentic systems (embeddings, memory, tool use, long-running state, recovery from partial failures)
- Built evals infrastructure (datasets, LLM as judge, prompt regression tests, monitoring)
- Comfortable writing resilient software for business-critical systems on non-deterministic models
- Informed opinions on tooling for building, evaluating, and securely running multi-provider AI systems in production
- Shipped production backend systems with focus on reliability
- Care about customers and thrive in ambiguity

## Nice to have
- Experience with Kotlin, Postgres, BigQuery, Vertex AI, LangSmith, Google Cloud, Terraform, TypeScript, React
- Interest in AI security and treating models as untrusted by default

## Compensation & Benefits
- Salary: $210,000 - $230,000
- Equity: meaningful share options
- 20 days vacation + national holidays
- Competitive healthcare and 401K
- Visa sponsorship available

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