Principal AI Architect / Head of AI / Machine Learning Architect
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Principal AI Architect / Head of AI / Machine Learning Architect (LLM Expert)
Compensation: $170000 $220000 meaningful equity
Location: San Francisco (Hybrid 3 days/week in office)
Remote Options: Inoffice hybrid
Employment Type: Fulltime or Contract
Who Are We
Were an earlystage YCbacked startup (Seed) building AI infrastructure to reinvent how private wealth is created and managed. Our AInative platform democratizes access to alternative investments think venture capital and private equity making them accessible to a new generation of investors.
Were already live with paying customers and significant revenue. Backed by toptier investors in fintech our mission is bold our team is sharp and our product is moving fast.
Whats In It for You
- Competitive compensation and significant equity upside
- Join a profitable fastmoving startup with paying customers
- Work on frontier AI problems with practical realworld application
- Flexible hybrid setup with teammates in SF (3 days/week in office)
- Partner with a highly accomplished founding team (exGoogle Harvard Law top VCs)
- Opportunity to architect AI systems from scratch and push LLMs to their limit
What Will You Do
Youll lead the design and implementation of our generative AI systems to power a nextgen financial advisor platform. Specifically youll:
- Build and finetune LLMs and multimodal systems from the ground up
- Architect retrievalaugmented generation (RAG) pipelines for realtime financial insights
- Develop autonomous agent frameworks to manage and analyze portfolios
- Apply modern prompting techniques (Tree of Thoughts Constitutional AI etc.)
- Collaborate crossfunctionally with product design and engineering teams to ship productiongrade AI features
- Push the limits of whats possible in AI quickly creatively and with scientific rigor
What Will You Need
MustHaves:
- Experience at a top AI lab or foundation model company (e.g. OpenAI DeepMind Anthropic Google Brain Meta FAIR)
- Deep handson expertise building and training LLMs not just API calls
- Advanced degree in AI/ML (PhD strongly preferred) from a toptier university (Stanford MIT CMU etc.)
- Proficiency in building RAG pipelines autonomous agents and multimodal systems
- Strong coding ability in Python TypeScript and relevant ML frameworks
- Familiarity with Claude LLaMA GPT4 or similar systems
- Willingness to work startup hours (996 pace in the near term)
NicetoHaves:
- Publications at toptier AI conferences (NeurIPS ICML ACL etc.)
- Experience with agentic AI protocols and memory architecture
- Prior startup experience or zerotoone product build
- Domain knowledge in financial systems or investment tech
You are not a fit if:
- Youve only used LLMs via APIs (e.g. wrappers around GPT)
- Your ML background is limited to computer vision robotics or traditional ML
- Youve had multiple short stints or no recent handson model development
- Youre not open to highagency highvelocity startup work
Note:
We do not offer relocation support or visa sponsorship at this time.
Principal AI Architect / Head of AI / Machine Learning Architect (LLM Expert)
Compensation: $170000 $220000 meaningful equity
Location: San Francisco (Hybrid 3 days/week in office)
Remote Options: Inoffice hybrid
Employment Type: Fulltime or Contract
Who Are We
Were an earlystage YCbacked startup (Seed) building AI infrastructure to reinvent how private wealth is created and managed. Our AInative platform democratizes access to alternative investments think venture capital and private equity making them accessible to a new generation of investors.
Were already live with paying customers and significant revenue. Backed by toptier investors in fintech our mission is bold our team is sharp and our product is moving fast.
Whats In It for You
- Competitive compensation and significant equity upside
- Join a profitable fastmoving startup with paying customers
- Work on frontier AI problems with practical realworld application
- Flexible hybrid setup with teammates in SF (3 days/week in office)
- Partner with a highly accomplished founding team (exGoogle Harvard Law top VCs)
- Opportunity to architect AI systems from scratch and push LLMs to their limit
Employment Type
Full Time
