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