Software Engineer, Applied AI

About the Company

Auctor is building the AI layer for professional services and software implementation. We automate the documentation, discovery, and decision-making that powers $400B+ in services work, acting as the brain behind solution engineers and onboarding teams.

Responsibilities

• Build and improve core systems behind agents across retrieval, tool use, document understanding, memory, and orchestration
• Design evals and experiments to understand agent quality in production
• Turn traces, failures, and user behavior into concrete product and architecture decisions
• Work closely with operations, GTM, and deployed teams to understand real workflows
• Evaluate models, prompts, and system designs across real enterprise tasks
• Own the loop from idea to implementation, measurement, and iteration

Requirements

• Strong engineering fundamentals and ability to ship production systems
• Fluency in Python
• Experience building or working on LLM-powered products, agent systems, or applied AI systems
• Empirical mindset using logs, traces, and experiments to drive decisions
• Strong systems taste regarding retrieval, prompting, memory, and tools
• High ownership and comfort working in ambiguity

Preferred Qualifications

• Experience with retrieval, search, or ranking systems
• Experience designing evals, benchmarks, or feedback loops for LLM systems
• Experience building internal tools or operator-facing systems
• Experience in startups or high-ownership environments

Benefits

• Equity with real upside
• Competitive, top-of-market salary
• Medical, dental, and vision coverage
• Monthly wellness stipend
• Unlimited PTO
• Daily meal stipend and dinner coverage for late nights
• Weekly happy hours and team outings