AI Engineer

Alchemi • New York, NY

20d

About The Position

Alchemi is hiring an AI Engineer to build end-to-end AI agents for drug development workflows. The role involves understanding how experts perform real workflows and shipping agents that meet the expectations of demanding pharmaceutical and contract research organization customers. The team is small, with broad individual scope, and work reaches customers within weeks.

The engineer will work closely with scientists and customers, build and evaluate agents, and turn successful solutions into reusable platform components. The position is based in New York City. Alchemi describes its working style as low-process and high-trust, with a two-week release cadence, carefully reviewed design specifications, and daily overlap across a team spanning Pacific Time to Western Europe.

The role offers competitive salary and meaningful equity, health and dental insurance, four weeks of paid vacation plus public holidays, paid sick leave and parental leave, a MacBook, external monitor and accessories, and opportunities to learn and develop. Alchemi says its work supports regulated workflows that affect clinical development timelines and how quickly drugs reach patients.

Requirements

• Experience building LLM applications or agents used by real people, rather than demos alone.
• Strong Python skills and good engineering habits.
• Ability to ship quickly and learn quickly.
• A strong focus on evaluating whether a system actually works.

Nice To Haves

• Side projects, hackathon wins, or open-source work the candidate is proud of.

Responsibilities

• Build and ship agents, including tools, retrieval, orchestration, and model selection.
• Write evaluations to demonstrate that agents work and continually improve their performance.
• Work closely with scientists and customers.
• Turn one-off successes into reusable platform components.

Benefits

• Competitive salary and meaningful equity, with options weighted toward ownership if desired.
• Best-in-class health and dental insurance.
• Four weeks of paid vacation plus public holidays, paid sick leave, and parental leave.
• MacBook, external monitor, and accessories.
• Room to learn and develop in a cutting-edge field.

What This Job Offers

• Job Type: Full-time
• Career Level: Entry Level
• Education Level: No Education Listed