Staff Applied Ai Engineer

Monthly salary : $4,500 - $5,500 USD Our partner is entering their next phase of growth, expanding their platform and building intelligent systems that transform how banks and credit unions understand and serve their small business customers.

They are looking for a hands-on Applied AI Engineer to own everything agentic and generative AI within their organization.

As their in-house expert, the selected candidate will design and build systems that integrate large language models into production, support their analytics platform, and lay the groundwork for a next-generation, AI-powered customer experience.

They will deliver meaningful impact and have full visibility from day one.

What You'll Do : Design and build production-grade generative and agentic AI systems, from prompt design and model selection through to orchestration and deployment.

Fine-tune and integrate third-party models into their platform and customer workflows.

Develop and maintain pipelines, tools, and infrastructure to deliver reliable and scalable AI features.

Collaborate with the engineering team to deploy and monitor AI services in production.

Establish best practices for AI evaluation, safety, and continuous improvement.

Help define their AI technical strategy and roadmap.

What You Bring : Strong experience designing, building, and productionizing AI-driven or agentic systems.

Deep understanding of LLM orchestration, context management, and prompt engineering.

Experience with cloud environments and monitoring or evaluating deployed AI services.

Experience working with APIs and SDKs from leading model providers.

Proficiency in Python and familiarity with backend integration workflows.

Comfort working in small, fast-moving teams with limited technical oversight.

Excellent communication skills and a proactive mindset.

Bonus Points For : Familiarity with modern frameworks like LangChain, LlamaIndex, or DSPy.

Experience with vector databases, embedding pipelines, or retrieval-augmented generation (RAG).

Deep understanding of transformer architecture.

Fintech or data-intensive SaaS experience.

What You'll Get : The opportunity to define and build the AI foundation of a fast-growing startup.

Competitive compensation.

Fully remote work model, with the opportunity to occasionally collaborate in person.

Fast-moving, engaging environment with a team that values both ambition and fun.

Benefits : A fully remote position with a structured schedule that supports work-life balance.

The opportunity to make a huge impact in an early-stage company defining a new category in financial technology.

Two weeks of paid vacation per year.

10 paid days for local holidays.

• Please note our partner is only looking for full-time dedicated team members who are eager to fully integrate within their team.