AI Engineer at Translucent
New York City, NY
$175,000–$275,000from the description
Aug 3, 2026
New York City, NY
Sep 24, 2026
What this job asks for AI summary
An AI Engineer role at an early-stage healthcare finance startup, focused on building and maturing a shared agentic AI platform rather than configuring per-customer solutions. The work spans agent framework design, eval harness engineering, context/retrieval layer architecture, model fine-tuning, and standardizing tool/connector surfaces that other product teams build on. Suited to engineers with hands-on production experience shipping LLM or agentic systems.
Senior level · 3+ years · New York-Newark-Jersey City, NY-NJ-PA · Full-time
“or” means any one of them counts — you don't need all of them.
Posted 2 times — it's one opening, so apply once.
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How this req sits in the market our data
Roughly 200 people in the New York-Newark-Jersey City, NY-NJ-PA area plausibly meet what this posting asks for (software developers). range 150–320
Applicant volume Light — Few people clear these requirements, so an application that does clear them gets looked at. Worth applying to even if you miss a nice-to-have.
Rare in this occupation — lead with these, and say what you built with them.
Most people in this occupation already list these. Still required — just not what gets you shortlisted.
What the occupation pays Median $170,499 (middle half $133,523–$210,499). This posting is about at that midpoint.
Estimated from BLS employment for this occupation and area, per-skill prevalence across our listing corpus, and published wage benchmarks — as of Aug 5, 2026. It is a model, not a headcount.
Why we read it this way (5)
The title 'AI Engineer' carries no explicit seniority level, but the scope — owning platform-wide architecture, making build-vs-buy calls, and driving work independently — is consistent with a Senior individual contributor. The 3+ years floor is low for that scope; the posting's own 'Experience Level' narrative signals the bar is higher in practice.
LangGraph is listed as one of several acceptable agent frameworks (Google ADK, LlamaIndex, Claude Agent SDK, or equivalent); all named alternatives are captured. The requirement is for hands-on experience with at least one — not all.
BigQuery is listed under required skills ('BigQuery or a comparable warehouse'); it is captured as required with no alternatives named in the posting. The 'or comparable warehouse' qualifier means the specific tool is interchangeable, but the warehouse capability itself is a hard gate.
MCP, Vertex AI (Gemini, Claude on Vertex), and GenKit appear only under 'Familiarity with our stack' in the Nice to Have section.
The alt SOC 15-1299 (Computer Occupations, All Other) is noted because 'AI Engineer' focused on agentic systems and eval harness engineering sits at the edge of the standard Software Developers classification; however, the primary day-to-day work is building and shipping software, making 15-1252 the stronger fit.
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