Staff AI Engineer at Covecta

As the most senior AI hire, you will architect a sophisticated multi-agent orchestration layer for regulated financial institutions. Moving beyond simple wrappers, you'll solve high-stakes technical challenges in document intelligence, automated underwriting, and hallucination detection. This is a hands-on leadership role shaping the future of a platform already trusted by marquee enterprise banks.

• Design and own the core agentic orchestration engine that coordinates dozens of specialized agents across complex financial lifecycles and human-in-the-loop workflows.
• Build advanced NLP and OCR pipelines to extract structured reasoning and data from messy financial paperwork, bank statements, and 200-page credit memos.
• Establish rigorous evaluation and alignment frameworks to ensure auditable AI decision trails, meeting the strict trust thresholds required by global financial institutions.

• Deep hands-on expertise shipping production-grade AI systems, specifically focusing on NLP, agentic architectures, or information extraction rather than just basic API integration.
• Strong research instinct and architectural judgment, capable of translating emerging techniques in hallucination detection and structured reasoning into reliable, scalable production code.
• Proven ability to operate with high ownership in a fast-paced environment, making consequential technical decisions while contributing as a high-impact individual programmer every day.

• Lead AI strategy at a startup that scaled from MVP to paying enterprise customers like Metro Bank in under a year, targeting a $36 trillion industry.
• Work directly with a founding team of former Mambu, McKinsey, and Accenture leaders who have previously scaled fintech valuations from €1.9bn to €4.7bn.
• Tackle genuinely hard engineering problems in a high-stakes regulated environment where accuracy, explainability, and multi-step reasoning are mission-critical requirements.