Software Engineer, Applied AI
As a Software Engineer, Applied AI at Auctor, you will design, build, and improve the core systems behind our agents in production. This role involves working across retrieval, document understanding, tool use, context management, prompting, and orchestration, with a focus on both shipping new capabilities and conducting empirical research to understand and enhance agent quality.
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. We are not looking for someone to glue an API onto a product and call it AI. We are looking for someone who wants to build real agent systems, understand how they behave in the wild, and use that understanding to make bold product and architecture decisions.
This is a new field. We care much more about what you have built than whether your background fits a standard template. Projects that would make us excited include:
If you apply, we would love to see one thing you built with LLMs or agents. It does not need to be perfect or flashy. We mostly want to understand how you think, what you owned, what you learned, and what tradeoffs you made.
Posted June 7, 2026