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Lead AI Engineer

Career Renew
York, NY Full Time
POSTED ON 8/25/2026
AVAILABLE BEFORE 9/22/2026
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)

Salary : $175,000 - $300,000

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