Senior AI Engineer
Socure is hiring a Senior AI Engineer in New York, United States. It pays $200k-$230k a year and Level rates it ; you can apply on Socure.
Level's read on this job
- Level rates this AI engineer role Builds AI ●●●●: the job is building AI systems.
- The listed pay starts 8% above the typical AI engineer posting on Level.
- The posting allows some remote work.
- Tools and skills the posting cites include LangGraph, CrewAI and AutoGen.
- Level lists 82 other open roles at Socure.
AI in this role
Design and build multi-step agentic workflows and AI-driven internal productivity tools to automate enterprise operations.
Why Socure?
Socure is building the identity trust infrastructure for the digital economy — verifying 100% of good identities in real time and stopping fraud before it starts. The mission is big, the problems are complex, and the impact is felt by businesses, governments, and millions of people every day.
We hire people who want that level of responsibility. People who move fast, think critically, act like owners, and care deeply about solving customer problems with precision. If you want predictability or narrow scope, this won’t be your place. If you want to help build the future of identity with a team that holds a high bar for itself — keep reading.
About the RoleSocure is building the future of trust for digital ecosystems. To accelerate our mission, we are expanding the platform to include agentic workflows and internal productivity tools that power innovation across the company. These systems will underpin how Socure builds, deploys, and scales AI-driven identity solutions while enabling internal teams to operate with speed, intelligence, and precision.
Reporting to the Head of New Product Engineering, you'll join a new Internal AI Engineering team with a mandate to design and ship the agentic systems that reshape how Socure operates across sales, marketing, revenue ops, finance, talent, and legal. As a Staff AI Engineer on this team, you'll define what to build - not just execute what's been scoped. You'll be the first major internal partner building on Socure's Agentic AI Foundations platform - using its primitives to ship faster and providing the real-world pull-through that shapes its roadmap. By delivering intelligent automation and agentic workflows you will play a central role in Socure's transformation into an AI-native company, driving step-function gains in efficiency, accuracy, and decision-making across the enterprise.
What You'll DoPrioritization of High-Impact Automation - Partner with business teams (e.g., Revenue Ops, Marketing, Finance Ops, Talent Acquisition) to catalog manual, high-frequency workflows and rank them by impact, feasibility, and urgency.
Production Agent Design & Development - Build multi-step, tool-augmented agent workflows that can plan, execute, observe outcomes, and iteratively improve. Design and implement planner–executor and reflection-based architectures to enhance reasoning quality and task reliability. Develop stateful agent systems and incorporate human-in-the-loop controls, including approval gates, fallback paths, and escalation mechanisms.
Platform Integration - Leverage the Agentic AI Foundations team's platform covering agent runtime, orchestration, memory, tool registry, guardrails, and observability. Provide feedback that shapes platform priorities.
Innovation & Standards - Leverage LLMs, multi-agent frameworks, and orchestration platforms to create differentiated internal solutions that can't be bought off the shelf. Stay ahead of emerging AI technologies and regulatory frameworks to ensure Socure leads the industry in secure, compliant, and intelligent internal systems.
Technical Patterns - Discover reusable agent design patterns while building real workflows and contribute them back to the Agentic AI Foundations paved paths so the work compounds across Socure.
Operational Excellence - Leverage the evaluation harness and tracing substrate provided by Agentic AI Foundations for continuous performance assessment, failure-mode analysis, and optimization of speed and accuracy of specific agentic solutions.
Required
8+ years of software engineering experience, with at least 2 years focused on AI/ML systems or LLM-powered applications in production.
Deep hands-on experience with LLM APIs and at least one agentic framework (e.g. LangGraph, CrewAI or AutoGen).
Strong Python skills and experience building production-grade backend services, APIs, and data pipelines.
Proven ability to operate in ambiguity: you've walked into an undefined problem space, figured out what to build, built it, and measured the results.
Experience shipping AI/automation solutions that directly impacted business operations.
Strong systems thinking: you design for reliability, observability, and maintainability from day one, not as an afterthought.
Ability to collaborate directly with non-technical business stakeholders to understand their actual workflows and translate those into technical solutions.
Preferred
Experience with multi-agent systems, workflow orchestration, or complex tool-use patterns in production.
Familiarity with evaluation frameworks (e.g., LangSmith, Weights & Biases, Arize, or custom eval pipelines) for AI systems (agent reliability, accuracy benchmarking, failure-mode analysis).
Experience with RAG pipelines, vector databases, knowledge graphs, or memory/grounding systems.
Experience with real-time or streaming AI systems.
Familiarity with AI safety and security practices, including prompt injection prevention, hallucinations mitigation and data protection/privacy.
Background in a regulated industry (fintech, healthcare, government) where compliance and security review processes are standard.
Experience with agent skill abstraction and structured tool integration via MCP (Model Context Protocol), function calling or similar protocols.
Experience with AWS-hosted LLM infrastructure (Bedrock, AgentCore/Strands, Lambda, SageMaker) or equivalent cloud ML services.
Socure is an equal opportunity employer that values diversity in all its forms within our company. We do not discriminate based on race, religion, color, national origin, gender, sexual orientation, age, marital status, veteran status, or disability status.
If you need an accommodation during any stage of the application or hiring process—including interview or onboarding support—please reach out to your Socure recruiting partner directly.
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How we rate this
Senior AI Engineer at Socure rates 85 out of 100 for how much of the daily work is AI. That makes it Builds AI (AI Level 4 of 4). The level is about AI in the job, not seniority.
Builds AI. The job is building AI systems.
- ●●●● Builds AI80 to 100
- ●●●○ Works on AI60 to 79
- ●●○○ Uses AI40 to 59
- ●○○○ Little AI0 to 39
Levels come from how often the tools, models and workflows of the role are named in the posting itself. Read the description and count the AI tools, models and workflows it names.
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Questions you could be asked
- How would you design a retrieval step so the model answers from real data instead of guessing?
- How do you decide when an AI agent can act on its own versus asking for approval first?
- Tell me about a workflow you automated with AI tools, end to end.
- How do you think about the risk of an AI system in this kind of role failing silently?
- Tell me about a project where agentic workflows was part of your work. What did you do?
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- List these exact terms on your resume: RAG, AI agents, AI Automation, AI Safety, and Agentic Workflows. An applicant tracking system matches the wording, not the idea.
- Attach one line of real, concrete experience to at least one of them. A tool named with nothing behind it rarely survives a human read.
- Lead with what you built, trained or shipped. This role is judged on the AI system itself, not the tools around it.
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