Chief Engineer

Full-time

Success Matcher Recruitment

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.

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