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# Senior Software Engineer, Applied AI

- **Company:** Take2, LLC
- **Location:** New York, NY, United States
- **Experience:** Expert
- **Salary:** $180,000.0 - $225,000.0
- **Contract:** Permanent contract
- **Skills:** JavaScript (Programming Language), Artificial Intelligence, Amazon Web Services, Computer Engineering, Distributed Systems, Monitoring of Systems, Python (Programming Language), Machine Learning, Node.Js, Software Engineering, Data Streaming, System Availability, Large Language Models, Multi-Agent Systems, Backend, Build Management, Kubernetes, Information Technology, Low Latency, Docker
- **Published:** August 24, 2026
- **Apply:** https://www.indeed.com/viewjob?jk=188e2c4a2fc4dc77

## About the Role

* 6+ years software engineering experience (backend or full stack) with significant ML and Applied AI experience as a part of that
 * Bachelor's in Computer Science or Computer Engineering
 * Have shipped multi-agent AI solutions with real-time inference to live users at scale
 * Designed and implemented agent orchestration, evaluation frameworks, and related tooling
 * Shipped production AI applications with real-time inference, integrating ML models into live systems
 * Built and operated distributed backend systems with monitoring and observability in place
 * Strong proficiency in Python, JavaScript, Node.js, AWS, Kubernetes, Docker
 * 2+ years at an early to mid-stage startup (Series B or lower)

Preferred:

 * Experience self-hosting AI/ML models for use in voice AI pipelines, including tuning and optimizing them for performance and reliability
 * Experience owning and operating distributed systems in high-throughput, streaming, low-latency environments, ensuring scalability, reliability, and performance under real-time constraints
 * Direct, hands-on experience integrating and optimizing STT, TTS, VAD, and LLMs for real-time voice agents
 * Scaled and optimized voice pipelines for low latency, high availability, and real-time performance

## Description

Take2 AI is hiring a Senior Software Engineer, Applied AI with deep experience applying agentic AI solutions with multi-agent / RAG in production to design, build, and scale the AI systmes powering Take2's autonomous healthcare recruiting platform.

You'll own applied-AI work end-to-end - from prototyping and model selection through production reliability - as we scale from thousands to millions of candidate conversations.

This role is high-ownership, hands-on, highly technical, and perfect for someone who thrives in a startup environment, playing a key role from design through production with significant ownership over technical execution and direction., * Design and build applied AI-powered features and agentic workflows - tweak systems, use RAG, build intra-agent networks & communication - and ship them to production

 * Select, integrate, evaluate, and tune models for the right balance of quality, latency, cost, and reliability across voice AI pipelines (STT/TTS/VAD)
 * Build evaluation, guardrail, and observability systems to ensure AI behavior is measurable and safe at scale
 * Own the backend services and data/inference pipelines that serve applied-AI features in production
 * Collaborate closely with product and founding engineering to rapidly prototype and deliver with significant ownership over technical direction


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