Chief Engineer

Our client is a fast-growing venture-backed AI startup building production-grade agentic AI systems for the financial services sector. Currently cash-flow positive with $30M in Series A funding their platform reaches over 10 million users across 100 financial institutions.

Why You Should Join

• Work at the rare intersection of startup growth financial stability and real-world AI scale.
• Own a core engineering domain with the equity autonomy and impact of an early founding team member.
• Deploy production-grade AI systems directly into regulated high-stakes environments rather than building experimental prototypes.

What Youll Do

• Own a core technical domain end-to-end driving architecture engineering standards and business outcomes.
• Architect and build production systems directly through hands-on technical leadership.
• Partner closely with founders and product leadership on high-impact architectural decisions.
• Guide and unblock senior engineers while elevating the overall technical bar.
• Build systems across AI agents AI runtimes conversational/voice AI data platforms and AI-native product experiences.
• Drive an AI-native engineering culture using frontier tools such as Claude Code and Cursor.

Required Experience

• 10 years of engineering experience with prior roles as Principal Engineer Staff Engineer Chief Engineer or Technical Founder.
• Proven experience building and owning large-scale production systems with 0 to 1 delivery.
• Deep expertise in AI LLMs agentic systems and modern AI development workflows.
• Strong hands-on coding and system architecture capabilities.
• Background in conversational AI voice AI RAG AI evaluation systems or fintech/regulated financial environments.
• BS degree in Computer Science or a STEM-related field.
• Ability to work on-site 5 days a week in San Francisco CA.