AI Engineer

About Apify

Apify is the largest marketplace of tools for AI. On the Apify Store, tens of thousands of Actors—purpose-built tools for the web—help people and AI agents get real-time data, track competitors, generate leads, and connect apps. Anyone can build one and earn from it.

Join us to help people put the web to work. Apify can find missing children, protect consumers from fake discounts across the EU, and feed data to AI chatbots.

The Role

We're building one of the pioneers in MCP dynamic tool discovery and agentic payments via Coinbase's x402 standard, letting autonomous agents discover the right tools and pay for them autonomously. We serve both humans and machines, making natural language a first-class interface to the platform.

It's a small team with significant surface area—you'll own real problems end-to-end.

What You'll Be Working On

• Build and maintain the Apify MCP Server, turning tens of thousands of Actors into tools that agents can reliably call
• Keep the server ahead of a fast-moving protocol: stateless transports, authorization hardening, and tool discovery
• Shape the agent behind Apify AI, from the runtime it runs on to the tools it reaches and the rough edges that surface end-to-end
• Help autonomous agents discover and pay for Apify tools
• Build evals that turn real production traces into tests, catch regressions in CI, and measure product improvements

Who We're Looking For

• 3+ years building real software, with backend experience in Node.js
• Experience shipping and maintaining production systems
• Familiarity with AI agents, LLMs, or tool use in agentic systems

Salary Disclosure

Editorial Market Estimate: The employer has not published compensation. Based on industry data for AI Engineer roles with your experience level, we estimate $80,000–$130,000 USD annually. This is not an employer-provided figure and may vary significantly by experience, location, and qualifications.