Senior AI Engineer

  • New York, New York, United States
  • Full-Time
  • On-Site
  • 170,000-220,000 USD / Year

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