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Lead AI Engineer

Career Renew
San Francisco, NY Full Time
POSTED ON 8/25/2026
AVAILABLE BEFORE 10/22/2026
 Career Renew is recruiting for one of its clients a Lead AI Engineer - this is an onsite position in San Francisco or NYC. Salary range: 175-300K base plus benefits plus equity.
 

About this role 

We’re building the next generation of contract-intelligence software as a full-stack engineer in our team. You’ll help bring to market the our vision of a contract operating system for the enterprise. 

As one of the early engineers on this newly integrated team, you’ll: 

  • Collaborate with other engineers, product managers, and designers to architect, develop, and own our user-facing application. 

  • Use your full stack experience to design intelligent solutions that include back-end and front-end systems. 

  • Promote sound engineering practices and drive technical strategy and roadmaps. 

  • Help design and implement measurements of success for the team. 

  • Initiate, influence, and drive technical projects. 

 
Requirements:
 

8 years of experience in building AI products in a professional setting.​

SaaS startup experience

Experience building AI applications/agents with frameworks (LangChain,​ LangGraph)

CS degree

Proficient in Python and SQL/Postgres

Experience with OpenAI/Anthropic models;​ training models a plus

Exposure to deployments (Kubernetes,​ Docker) and cloud (AWS,​ Azure,​ GCP)

Comfortable working on challenging,​ ambiguous problems

On-site 5 days/week in New York (Brooklyn/Lower East Side) or San Francisco

LLM Monitoring (Nice-to-have)

 
 

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