Founding AI Engineer

Competitive base salary ($225k–$300k) plus meaningful equity, depending on experience

We’re partnering with an early-stage startup building an AI-native platform in a highly regulated financial domain. Our goal is to replace manual, legacy workflows with modern AI systems that meaningfully improve decision‑making and execution for end users. We’re a small, technical founding team working closely with real customers while building our MVP.

We’re hiring a Founding AI Engineer to help design and build the core AI systems that power our product. This is a hands‑on role focused on shipping production‑grade AI and agentic systems, not research prototypes. You’ll work directly with the founding team and play a key role in shaping both the technical architecture and the product itself.

• Own AI capabilities end to end, from system design through production deployment and iteration
• Build and evolve multi‑agent systems, including orchestration, tool‑calling, and workflow execution
• Develop evaluation frameworks, observability, state management, and explainability to ensure reliability, transparency, and auditability
• Extend AI systems from reasoning and synthesis into real‑world execution across internal and external systems
• Collaborate closely with founders, engineers, designers, and domain experts to translate customer needs into robust AI‑driven products
• Help set engineering standards and technical direction as an early member of the team
• Frontend:
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• Cloud & infrastructure: AWS and modern Dev Ops tooling
• This role is backend‑ and AI‑leaning, but comfort working across the stack is expected.

• 2+ years of experience building and operating production systems, ideally with applied AI or ML components
• Strong software engineering fundamentals with a track record of shipping real products
• Comfortable working in ambiguous, fast‑moving, early‑stage environments with high ownership
• Actively uses modern AI tools and has informed opinions about their strengths and limitations
• Able to think beyond isolated technical tasks and engage with product, user, and business context
• Experience in fintech or regulated environments is a plus, but not required