Head of AI / Principal AI Architect / ML Engineer / Data Scientist
Head of AI / Principal AI Architect / ML Engineer / Data Scientist
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$ 200000 - 350000
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Job Description
Role: Head of AI / Principal AI Architect / ML Engineer / Data Scientist San Francisco (Hybrid)
Position Type: Full-Time (Permanent or Contract)
Urgency: URGENT
Start Date: ASAP
Team Size: High-agency founding team working at the cutting edge of agentic and multi-modal AI
Compensation & Terms
- Base Salary: $200000 $350000 (dependent on experience and level)
- Equity: 2% (flexible based on final role and comp level)
- Visa Support: Not available
- Sign-On Bonus: Not mentioned
- Interview-to-Offer Turnaround: Varies based on scheduling
Role Summary
Join a YC-backed high-growth fintech startup transforming the $1.25T private wealth industry with AI. As
Head of AI or Principal AI Architect youll lead the development of foundational model architectures and
agentic systems used for financial planning recommendation and autonomous analysis. Work directly
with the CEO and CTO to bring to life generative copilots retrieval-augmented advisors and multi-modal
assistants built with LLMs advanced prompting and orchestration strategies.
Key Responsibilities
- Architect and scale generative AI systems for financial reasoning and planning
- Build RAG pipelines to retrieve financial knowledge from structured/unstructured sources
- Design autonomous agents to power user-facing workflows and copilot experiences
- Apply advanced prompting strategies (Tree of Thoughts Constitutional AI Agent protocol)
- Collaborate cross-functionally with product business and engineering stakeholders
Candidate Must-Haves
- Hands-on experience building or fine-tuning LLMs or foundation models
- Experience at a top AI lab or foundation model org (e.g. OpenAI DeepMind Anthropic FAIR) PhD (or equivalent) in AI/ML from a top institution (e.g. Stanford MIT CMU Berkeley)
Technical depth in:
- LLMs (e.g. GPT-4 Claude LLaMA 3)
- RAG optimization & hybrid search
- Multi-modal systems (text voice)
- Agent orchestration for financial planning or similar use cases
- Startup-style work ethic (9am-9pm 6 days/week)
- Comfortable working with non-technical teams
Strongly Preferred
- Publications in NeurIPS ICML ACL CVPR
- Fintech or financial modeling experience
- Led AI/ML research teams or zero-to-one product builds
- Familiarity with Python TypeScript Claude LLaMA DynamoDB AWS
Work Model & Environment
- Location: San Francisco (in-office 3 days/week)
- Hybrid Schedule: Yes 3 days onsite
- Culture: Intense high-agency deep technical collaboration
- Client Impact: Consumer-facing product already in use with six-figure revenue
Employment Type
Full Time
