Staff AI Engineer
$200k - $250kDavid Joseph & Company
Job Description
Job Description
New York City, NY · On-site · Full-time Compensation: $200,000–$250,000 + 0.1%–0.35% equity
About the CompanyOur client is building the AI operating system for the CFO office — connecting to a company's existing finance stack and automating the work behind the close, revenue recognition, reporting, cash management, and audit readiness. The goal isn't to help accountants write better prompts; it's for finance teams to review exceptions while audit-ready agents reason, explain their decisions, escalate uncertainty, and continuously improve. It is well-backed by a top fintech-focused investor alongside notable operators and finance leaders.
Founded 2023 · 1–10 people (Seed) · Industry: AI Tools / FinTech
The RoleThe client is hiring a Staff AI Engineer to own the platform layer every engineering pod builds on — from agent frameworks and context systems to orchestration, verification, observability, and data infrastructure. This isn't a module-ownership role; the work multiplies the output of the entire engineering team, and you're expected to identify the bottlenecks limiting the company rather than wait for specs from a PM or an architecture committee.
Tech stack: Python (primary), agent frameworks, distributed systems, workflow/transactional engines, data infrastructure; fluent AI-coding-agent use (Claude, Cursor) valued.
Requirements- 2+ years of agentic-AI work with a research-oriented background
- 8+ years of software engineering with distributed-systems or platform depth
- Platform-layer experience that multiplied output across engineering teams
- Early-stage startup experience (pre-seed to Series B)
- On-site in NYC on startup hours
- Deep agentic-AI experience with architectural ownership
- A research-oriented ML or NLP background applied to production
- Prior Staff or Principal IC at a high-growth startup
- A finance, ERP, audit, or compliance domain background
- Org-wide leverage, not module ownership: own the platform layer every engineering pod builds on
- Strong seed backing from a top fintech investor with senior finance leaders behind the company
- Ground-floor abstraction design: define the agent harness, financial context graph, and verification standards that determine whether AI is safe enough to touch a customer's books
- Location — New York City, NY
- Work policy — On-site, 6 days/week (startup hours)
- Compensation — $200,000–$250,000 + 0.1%–0.35% equity
- Visa sponsorship — Not available
- Employment type — Full-time
Vacancy posted 19 days ago
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