Engineering Full-Time

Senior AI Engineer (US)

Deduction • New York, NY

Company

Deduction

Annual salary

$220k – $250k/yr

Location

New York, NY

Listed

43d ago

Experience:: 6 to 10 years
Workplace:: Based in US and Remote with quarterly offsites + opportunities for in person collaboration in NY and Chicago
Equity:: Competitive

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What you'll do

● Architect & Scale AI Systems: Work closely with the Founding AI Engineer to evolve our AI systems to a robust, governed, platform.
● **Harden the Reasoning & Context Layer: **Design sophisticated context engineering systems, managing memory and state while improving reliability, performance, and user experience.
● Build a Multi-Layered Evaluation Platform: Design and implement a robust system for continuous quality improvement, using comprehensive offline test suites, LLM-as-a-judge scoring (AI Auditor), and production-based CPA moderation to create a data flywheel.
● Full-Stack AI Delivery: Write production-ready TypeScript (Node.js), ensuring AI features are integrated into our core fintech platform.
● **Security-First Design: **Ensure context boundaries and data retrieval paths natively enforce strict security, privacy, and compliance guardrails to protect client data.
● Lead AI-Native Development: Set the standard for using AI to build AI, using advanced coding assistants and automated testing to maintain high velocity and socializing best practices across the team.

Role Description

We are looking for a **Senior AI Engineer **to join our growing AI team, working in lockstep with our Founding AI Engineer. While our founding team has laid the groundwork for our agentic core, your mission will be to expand, harden, and scale these systems.

You’ll sit at the intersection of AI platform and production backend engineering. You aren't just building prototypes; you are building the durable infrastructure that allows our AI agent, Taylor, to reason through complex tax logic for our rapidly growing client base. This is a role for a builder who loves the challenge of making non-deterministic AI systems behave reliably in a highly regulated, high-stakes environment.

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The listing gives $220k – $250k/yr.

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Yes, the listing is remote. Based in US and Remote with quarterly offsites + opportunities for in person collaboration in NY and Chicago.