Staff AI Engineer (120k-150k + Equity) at Covecta

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Job Title: Staff AI Engineer

Salary: 120k-150k Equity

Company Description: Covecta - Seed-stage Agentic AI platform backed by Salesforce Ventures

Job Description:
As the most senior AI hire you will lead the technical direction of a purpose-built platform orchestrating dozens of specialized agents across the financial services lifecycle. Moving beyond simple wrappers you will solve complex document intelligence and multi-agent coordination challenges for major institutions like Metro Bank in a highly regulated high-stakes environment.

Location: London UK

Why this role is remarkable:

• Lead AI engineering at a startup that scaled from MVP to paying enterprise customers across the UK and US in under a year.

• Work on high-stakes technical challenges including multi-agent orchestration hallucination detection and auditable AI for a $36 trillion industry.

• Join a talent-dense team founded by former Mambu and McKinsey leaders backed by a recent $6.5M seed round led by Salesforce Ventures.

What you will do:

• Design and own the agentic orchestration layer that coordinates 50 specialized financial agents with human-in-the-loop oversight.

• Architect robust evaluation and alignment frameworks to ensure accuracy explainability and policy compliance in regulated banking workflows.

• Build intelligent document processing pipelines to extract structured data from complex financial paperwork like regulatory filings and credit memos.

The ideal candidate:

• Extensive hands-on experience shipping production-grade AI systems specifically within NLP document intelligence or agentic systems.

• Strong research instinct with the ability to translate emerging techniques into reliable systems using structured reasoning and guardrail design.

• High-velocity startup mindset with the architectural judgment to make consequential build-versus-buy decisions and shape a growing engineering culture.

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Step 6. If not Jack will find you excellent alternatives. All for free.

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