# Applied AI Engineer at Sapien

- Company: Sapien
- What the company does: The AI profit engine behind the world's most impactful businesses. Serving finance & ops teams from mid-market to F500. Backed by General Catalyst.
- Company website: https://www.getsapien.com/
- Type: Startups (AI role)
- Level: Mid level
- Location: Sapien HQ — NYC
- Work setup: On-site
- Pay: $175K to $250K base salary per year (USD)
- Posted: 2024-12-16
- Apply by: 2026-10-08
- Apply: https://jobs.ashbyhq.com/sapien/b31a944b-075f-4302-834f-f949cd3db267
- Page: https://www.1752.vc/careers/jobs/sapien-applied-ai-engineer/

## About the role

You'll build the AI agent capabilities that power Sapien's financial and operational intelligence. This means designing novel architectures for reasoning over complex financial and operational data, implementing verifiable and observable agent workflows, and building systems that learn and adapt to each company's unique operations.

## What they're looking for

- Strong algorithmic thinking. Demonstrated through ML research, competitive programming, mathematics, or building novel systems from scratch
- Experience with modern agent frameworks, LLMs, and AI systems: fine-tuning, retrieval augmentation, tool use, or agentic architectures
- Comfort working end-to-end: from implementing research ideas and prototyping architectures to deploying production systems and iterating on real customer feedback

Tags: Engineering