As a Founding Engineer, you will build the technical core of an AI-native investment platform designed to automate complex financial workflows. You will develop intelligent agents that model businesses and execute transactions from start to finish. This high-impact role offers substantial ownership, the chance to shape institutional operations, and a path toward future leadership.
Founding Engineer at VC-backed AI fintech startup
Join a well-funded AI startup building the next generation of financial institutions by developing an 'autonomous banker' from the ground up to transform complex global financial workflows. As a Founding Engineer, you will own the technical core and architecture of a defining institution backed by the world's most successful tech founders, working alongside an elite team to solve consequential problems at the intersection of finance and applied AI. This role is perfect for engineers who thrive on craftsmanship and want to ship difficult production systems that reconcile contradictory evidence and reason through multi-month deal processes autonomously.
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Location
San Francisco, United States
Compensation
Not Disclosed
Company
Confidential company
Role overview
About the company
VC-backed AI fintech startup
What you will do
- Design and build intelligence that models businesses, reconciles evidence, and reasons about complex market interactions and decision propagation.
- Develop sophisticated AI agents to coordinate months of financial work across hundreds of counterparties while maintaining context and commitments.
- Own the end-to-end technical lifecycle, including architecture, evaluations, infrastructure, and product interfaces for the autonomous banking core.
Who this is a fit for
- Proven track record of shipping difficult production systems and owning critical technical decisions at high-growth startups or top-tier institutions.
- Strong background in applied AI, specifically with experience in agents, retrieval, memory, evaluations, or managing data-intensive workflows.
- Thrives in ambiguous environments, values extreme craftsmanship, and possesses the ability to move seamlessly between backend systems and product interfaces.
Why this role is remarkable
- Build a defining institution from first principles, shaping its technical capabilities and culture from the very beginning.
- Backed by high-profile tech founders and top-tier VCs, providing the resources to solve massive, consequential problems.
- Work on bleeding-edge applied AI challenges, including multi-agent coordination, complex business reasoning, and large-scale data-intensive systems.
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