Senior AI Engineer

Final date to receive applications: 30 October 2026

Department:
Engineering

Employment Type:

Full Time

Location:

New York

Compensation: $160,000 - $200,000 / year

TL;

DR Kharon is seeking a full-time Senior AI Engineer based in New York City. This role requires in-office attendance at least 3 days a week.

• Design, develop, and ship proof-of-concept AI applications within days or weeks. Work in fast, agile cycles to test ideas, gather feedback, and refine models and interfaces.
• Build and integrate advanced AI components, including Model Context Protocol clients and servers, foundation model fine-tuning, and multi-agent orchestration frameworks (eg. Claude Agent SDK, Lang Chain, AutoGPTI)
• Take features from idea to production, including architecting data flows, writing high-quality code, containerizing services, and deploying them in secure cloud environments (e.g., AWS).
• Partner closely with product managers, designers, engineers, and data scientists to translate abstract business problems into concrete, scalable AI systems.
• Develop production-grade data pipelines integrating data to/from AI systems.
• Develop and maintain internal tools to speed up development cycles, CI/CD scripts, evaluation harnesses, dashboards, and secure sandbox environments.
• Ensure AI systems are monitored, explainable, and aligned with ethical, regulatory, and performance standards.
• Stay at the forefront of AI/ML advancements, evaluate open-source frameworks, and share best practices across the team.

• Bachelor's or Master’s degree in Computer Science, Artificial Intelligence, Engineering, or a related field preferred.
• Strong software development skills in Python and experience with libraries like Langchain/Langgraph, Agent SDKs, Pydantic, SQL Alchemy/Alembic, PySpark/Polars/Pandas.
• Experience with tracing systems (MLFlow, Sentry), RAG Systems, Memory Systems, MCP Servers, Agent Skills, and knowledge of different models and tradeoffs.
• Strong understanding of how to make use of AI tools for rapid development (Cursor, Claude Code, etc)
• Familiarity with containerization (Docker), cloud deployment (AWS preferred, Github Actions)
• Demonstrated ability to ship high-quality, production-ready ML/AI systems under tight iteration cycles.
• Passion for solving complex problems with real-world impact, especially in high-stakes or regulated domains.
• Excellent communication skills and the ability to thrive in cross-functional, mission-driven environments.

Kharon is a highly disruptive and incredibly innovative organization that navigates risk at the intersection of global security threats + international commerce.

What does that mean? Great question.

Operating at the nexus of global security, Kharon is on a mission to revolutionize the current landscape. We take really complex data as it relates to global security and empower our clients to not only understand the risk associated with their potential business relationships but to operationalize that data so that they can make the best and most informed decisions possible.

From financial crimes and sanctions to export controls and threat identifications, our tools optimize protection against the types of risks that could otherwise be incredibly dangerous and excessively costly to any business. Serving many of today’s leading global financial and multinational institutions, Kharon products are the most powerful in the space with a precision and depth that is absolutely unparalleled.

When you look at any major global crisis event, we’re providing intelligence that’s at the heart of those circumstances. We connect the dots in a way that’s meaningful. Now, we’re experiencing unprecedented growth. As the world continues to…