Founding AI Engineer (Fintech/LLM)
Founding AI Engineer (Fintech/LLM)
Location: New York City, NY (Hybrid, 4 days onsite)
Role Overview
Founding AI Engineer role owning the end-to-end design, development, and scaling of LLM-powered product features within a high-growth fintech platform. This position directly impacts core product intelligence and user experience through applied AI systems in production.
Responsibilities
- Own and ship AI features end-to-end from concept to production across full-stack systems
- Design and build LLM-powered product features used by large-scale active user base
- Architect and maintain AI systems including prompt orchestration, memory, and contextual personalization
- Develop retrieval systems leveraging embeddings, RAG pipelines, and financial data grounding
- Build evaluation frameworks to measure model quality, reasoning accuracy, and safety
- Optimize model performance, latency, and cost efficiency in production environments
- Implement guardrails and compliance controls for AI systems in regulated financial contexts
- Collaborate directly with founders and cross-functional teams to iterate quickly on product features
Requirements
- 3+ years of production software engineering experience or exceptional new graduate
- Hands-on experience shipping LLM-powered applications in production
- Experience with RAG systems, embeddings, or retrieval architectures
- Strong backend engineering fundamentals and system design experience
- Ability to own systems end-to-end and operate independently
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