Chief Engineer (Principal Engineer)
Success Matcher Recruitment
Job Description
Job Description
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 You'll 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.
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