AI Engineer

Company: X5 Labs
Location: New York NY preferred (open to anywhere in the US)
Compensation: $200000 - $350000 competitive equity
Employment Type: Full-time
Visa Sponsorship: Visa transfers (OPT H-1B transfer)

X5 Labs is a stealth-mode AI startup building a work model for regulated enterprises: an ambient discovery platform that learns how employees actually work and then augments their workflows with custom AI models deployed end to end inside the customers environment. It focuses on large regulated enterprises primarily top-tier banks and financial institutions.

X5 Labs is a Series A company ($23M raised) founded by repeat entrepreneurs with deep roots in Israeli intelligence and AI research on their second venture together.

X5 Labs is hiring an AI Engineer (5-10 years) to own the technical build-out of a custom AI/LLM platform for one of the top five banks in the US. You will join a tight-knit execution-focused team that ships real AI in production working closely with the core engineering team and a marquee enterprise customer. About 20% of the role is customer-facing.

• Fork and customize the core AI/LLM platform for a top-five banks environment owning the build from architecture to deployment.
• Work daily with the Israel-based engineering team to merge customer-specific work into the main product.
• Own production deployments integrations and reliability in a regulated enterprise environment.
• Serve as the go-to technical contact for the banks engineering stakeholders.
• Troubleshoot complex production issues end to end with high independence.

• 5-10 years of engineering experience
• Production AI/LLM systems experience (GenAI RAG)
• Strong Python Kubernetes CI/CD REST APIs and cloud (AWS GCP or Azure)
• Comfort as the technical point of contact for enterprise stakeholders
• Experience in regulated enterprise environments (banking a plus)

Python LLMs GenAI RAG Kubernetes CI/CD REST APIs AWS/GCP/Azure

REVENUE: 21.25% of first-year salary. Est. fee per hire $43K-$74K; 4 seat(s) up to $234K if all filled.

TARGET COMPANIES (suggested): Palantir Databricks Snowflake JPMorgan Chase Goldman Sachs Cohere.

BEST-FIT CANDIDATE: 5-10 yrs; prod LLM/RAG; Python K8s cloud; enterprise-facing; visa: transfers only; location: NYC preferred US remote OK.