Founding Engineer

ABOUT THE ROLE

This is a founding engineering role at an AI-native fintech company building autonomous systems to manage complex financial transactions end-to-end. You will own the technical core of a product that coordinates multi-party financial workflows, models businesses, and reasons about markets at scale. Your decisions will define the architecture and capabilities of the platform from day one.

WHAT YOU'LL DO

- Build intelligence that models businesses, reconciles contradictory evidence, and reasons about how decisions propagate through companies and markets.

- Design and ship agents that coordinate months of financial work across hundreds of counterparties, preserving context, commitments, and dependencies as conditions change.

- Own end-to-end architecture, evaluations, infrastructure, and product interfaces for complex AI systems.

- Help select technical teammates and establish engineering and operating standards for the team.

- Move fluidly across backend systems, applied AI, and product interfaces to turn ambiguous problems into working products.

WHAT WE'RE LOOKING FOR

- 8 or more years of experience shipping difficult, production-grade systems and owning critical technical decisions.

- Deep expertise in applied AI, including building intelligent agents and models for complex business processes.

- Experience with AI components such as retrieval, memory systems, and evaluation frameworks, especially in data-intensive environments.

- Proven ability to own end-to-end architecture and infrastructure for complex AI systems.

- Full-stack AI engineering capability: comfortable working across backend, applied AI, and product layers.

- Strong commitment to engineering craftsmanship, system reliability, and measuring whether systems actually work.

- Experience building in greenfield or first-principles environments is a strong plus.

- Background in financial services, investment banking, or other complex professional workflows is an advantage.

COMPENSATION & BENEFITS

Base salary: $180,000 to $300,000 USD annually. Equity included. Visa sponsorship is not available.

LOCATION

On-site in San Francisco, CA, United States.