# Software Engineer, Applied AI at Auctor

- Company: Auctor
- What the company does: Auctor is the AI-native system of action for software implementations. Unify pre-sales and delivery to deliver projects faster, with less rework. Backed by Sequoia and Y Combinator.
- Company website: https://www.getauctor.com/
- Type: Startups (AI role)
- Level: Mid level
- Location: New York
- Work setup: On-site
- Pay: $175K to $290K base salary per year (USD)
- Posted: 2026-04-02
- Apply by: 2026-10-08
- Apply: https://jobs.ashbyhq.com/auctor/ca5b0c44-cafb-48ad-99fa-84aa3cfc5179
- Page: https://www.1752.vc/careers/jobs/auctor-software-engineer-applied-ai/

## About the role

As a Software Engineer, Applied AI at Auctor, you will design, build, and improve the core systems behind our agents in production. This role sits at the boundary of engineering and empirical research. You will work across retrieval, document understanding, tool use, context management, prompting, and orchestration. Some weeks you will be shipping new capabilities. Some weeks you will be mining production traces, designing evals, and figuring out which part of the system is actually failing.

## What they're looking for

- Strong engineering fundamentals and the ability to ship production systems
- Fluency in Python
- Experience building or working on LLM-powered products, agent systems, or adjacent applied AI systems
- An empirical mindset — you reach for logs, traces, experiments, and real usage before guessing
- Strong systems taste — you understand that retrieval, prompting, memory, tools, and UX interact
- High ownership and comfort working in ambiguity

Tags: Engineering