Founding AI Engineer

New York, New York

$200,000-220,000 base salary + equity + benefits

Harnham is partnered with a fintech startup that is disrupting a key area of financial services. They are building out an LLM platform that will revolutionize how certain financial tasks are carried out. This will be the senior-most AI person in the business and lead all LLM projects.

THE ROLE

• You will be responsible for end-to-end machine learning model development and deployment for the company's AI platform
• You will report directly to the C-suite and work closely on technical direction
• Own development of new PoCs and quickly build into production, particularly focusing on novel NLP and LLM applications
• You will implement and design code and build out to production using various machine learning and LLM techniques
• You will play an integral role of building out the AI team and scaling out its product
• Act as a thought leader role for AI across the business

YOUR SKILLS AND EXPERIENCE

The successful Founding AI Engineer will likely have the following skills and experience:

• 5+ years of commercial experience preferred with a focus on building and deploying natural language and LLM models
• Experience working in a scaling startup is highly preferred (having seen multiple funding rounds ideally)
• Expertise in Python (TensorFlow, PyTorch) for production-grade work
• Commercial experience building novel NLP and LLM AI platforms with large datasets
• Cloud experience in AWS, Azure or GCP preferred
• History of working on models from concept to production / end-to-end / 0-1
• Experience in settings wearing multiple hats
• Domain experience in financial services, investment or accounting a plus
• History of partnering with non-technical stakeholders required
• Experience as a player/coach or manager for AI teams preferred
• BS or MS degree in Computer Science, Statistics, Applied Mathematics, Computer Engineering or similar

THE BENEFITS

A competitive base salary of $200,000-220,000 + benefits + equity

HOW TO APPLY

Please register your interest by sending your résumé to Tim Jonas via the Apply link on this page.

KEYWORDS

Machine Learning | AI | Artificial Intelligence | Technology | Fintech | Financial Services | Startup | Deployment | Production | Founding Team | LLMs | LLM | Large Language Models | GenAI | Gen AI | Generative AI | NLP | NLU | NLG | Natural Language Processing