Senior AI Engineer

New York City, NY · On-site · Full-timeCompensation: $170,000–$220,000 + 0.1%–0.35% equity

About the Company

Our client is building the AI operating system for the CFO office — audit-ready AI agents that connect to a company's existing finance stack and automate the full order-to-cash, record-to-report, treasury, and financial-reporting workflow, so finance teams review exceptions while AI handles the rest. It is well-backed by a top fintech-focused investor alongside notable operators and finance leaders.

Founded 2023 · 1–10 people (Seed) · Industry: AI Tools / FinTech

The Role

Own a finance domain end to end — from context engineering and prompt design through tool use, evals, guardrails, and the UX around them — working directly with controllers, accountants, and CFOs to replace manual processes with production-grade agent systems. Backend-heavy, full-stack in practice.

Tech stack: Python (primary).

Requirements

• 2+ years building and shipping production AI agents
• 4+ years of backend or infrastructure engineering
• A research background in ML, NLP, or AI agents
• Early-stage startup experience (pre-seed to Series B)
• On-site in NYC, six days a week on startup hours

Nice to Haves

• A strong agentic-systems track record
• A research background in ML, NLP, or agents
• Graduated post-2021 with direct agentic-era experience
• A fintech, ERP, or accounting-software background

Why Join

• Own a domain end to end: no PM writes your specs and no architecture committee gates your ideas — you own a finance domain across context, prompts, tools, evals, guardrails, and UX
• Hard, novel problems: agents finance teams and auditors can trust, context engineering over large messy financial data, and durable orchestration across flaky enterprise systems
• Strong backing and pedigree behind the company

Details

• Location — New York City, NY
• Work policy — On-site, 6 days/week (startup hours)
• Compensation — $170,000–$220,000 + 0.1%–0.35% equity
• Visa sponsorship — Not available
• Employment type — Full-time