Senior AI Engineer

David Joseph & Company
New York, NY, United States
19 days ago

Role details

Contract type
Permanent contract
Employment type
Full-time (> 32 hours)
Experience level
Expert
Experience required
2 years minimum
Compensation
$170,000.0 - $220,000.0
Working hours
Shift work
Job source

Tech stack

Artificial Intelligence Python (Programming Language) Large Language Models Backend Front End Software Development Automation Anywhere

Job description

Own a finance domain end-to-end - from context engineering and prompt design through tool use, evals, guardrails, and the UX around them - working directly with controllers, accountants, and CFOs to replace manual processes with production-grade agent systems. This is a backend-heavy, full-stack-in-practice role: no PM writes your specs and no architecture committee gates your ideas., * Own a finance domain end-to-end, building the agent system that automates it across context, prompts, tools, evals, guardrails, and UX

  • Design and implement durable, replay-safe orchestration for long-running AI workflows across flaky, stateful enterprise systems
  • Build the trust layer for non-deterministic systems: evals, verification, guardrails, and observability that catch agent mistakes before a human does
  • Ship full-stack when the work calls for it, owning decisions across the LLM pipeline, infrastructure, backend, and UX within your pod
  • Do serious context engineering: retrieval, memory, and tool design over large, messy, proprietary financial data
  • Build idempotent, audit-ready write-back systems for ERPs and financial systems with full traceability

Tech stack: Python (primary stack)

Requirements

  • 2+ years building and shipping production AI agents
  • 4+ years backend or infrastructure engineering
  • Research background in ML, NLP, or AI agents
  • Early-stage startup experience (pre-seed to Series B)
  • NYC in-person, startup hours, 6 days a week, 9am to 7pm or 8pm

Green Flags

  • Strong agentic systems track record
  • Research background in ML, NLP, or agents
  • Graduated post-2021 with direct agentic-era experience
  • Fintech, ERP, or accounting software background

Red Flags

  • Frontend-heavy background with little backend depth
  • Generic AI resume without architectural depth
  • Multiple short tenures

Benefits & conditions

Pulled from the full job description

  • Health insurance
  • 401(k) matching
  • Vision insurance
  • Dental insurance, * Own a finance domain end-to-end with no PM gating your specs and no committee gating your ideas
  • Work on hard, novel problems: trustworthy agents for finance and audit, context engineering over messy financial data, durable orchestration across flaky enterprise systems
  • Meals and stocked NYC office, 401(k) with employer match, and full medical, dental, and vision for employees and dependents

About the company

A seed-stage startup building the AI operating system for the CFO office - audit-ready AI agents that connect to a company’s existing finance stack and automate the full order-to-cash, record-to-report, treasury, and financial-reporting workflow, so finance teams review exceptions while AI handles the rest. Venture-backed by leading investors and experienced finance operators.

Founded 2023 · 1-10 people · Industry: AI Tools

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