Senior AI Engineer
Job Description:
New York City, NY · On-site · Full-time Compensation: $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