Software Engineer (New York)

Location: New York, New York, US
Recruiter: The Phoenix Group
Date posted: Wednesday, December 24, 2025

Job Description:

Software Engineer

New York City

$200k - $350k base + equity

AI Start-up

We're working on behalf of a New York based early stage frontier LLM start-up who have just raised at a billion dollar valuation and are actively looking to scale their engineering team across the stack.

They're actively looking for engineers who have ideally had exposure to both smaller businesses as well as either growth start-ups or high-calibre big tech firms who can leverage their experience scaling systems.

• 2+ years commercial experience either in high-calibre tech company or early founder/founding engineer role - particularly interested in engineers who have been through either a company or team growth phase
• Proficient with Python, Typescript, or Rust - however if you're competent with another backend language and happy to pick up the stack this isn't a hard requirement
• Strong engineering fundamentals with exposure to a variety of different engineering problems
• Exposure to language models and GenAI preferred

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