Staff AI Engineer

goodfin
San Francisco
Workplace: OnsiteFull timeUSD 200,000 - 300,000 annuallyFunction: Data Science & Machine LearningExperience: 6+ yearsSkills: ["Leadership","Communication","Problem-solving","Mentorship"]

Lead the design, build, and hardening of core AI intelligence systems for a fintech-focused wealth platform. Own end-to-end architecture and deployment of LLM-powered, agentic workflows, hybrid reasoning pipelines, and robust evaluation and observability. Influence technical standards, mentor the team, and translate ambiguous user needs into reliable intelligent behavior that drives real financial decisions.

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goodfin
goodfin
6 months ago

Staff AI Engineer

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Job Summary

Lead the design, build, and hardening of core AI intelligence systems for a fintech-focused wealth platform. Own end-to-end architecture and deployment of LLM-powered, agentic workflows, hybrid reasoning pipelines, and robust evaluation and observability. Influence technical standards, mentor the team, and translate ambiguous user needs into reliable intelligent behavior that drives real financial decisions.
Location: San Francisco
Workplace: Onsite
Employment Type: Full time
Job Function: Data Science & Machine Learning

Key Responsibilities

  • •Architect and own end-to-end AI systems, from architecture and modeling decisions through deployment, evaluation, and iteration
  • •Design hybrid reasoning pipelines that combine LLMs with retrieval, structured financial data, rules, and tools
  • •Build robust RAG pipelines over unstructured, noisy, and proprietary data (PPMs, decks, filings, internal memos)
  • •Develop evaluation frameworks for reasoning quality, faithfulness, latency, and cost
  • •Implement observability, debugging, and failure-handling for multi-step AI workflows

Pay and Benefits

Salary: USD 200,000 - 300,000 annually
Equity and Bonus:Equity
Perks:Equity

Key Requirements

  • •6+ years of software engineering experience with hands-on work in applied AI/ML systems
  • •Strong fundamentals in Python and backend system design
  • •Proven experience with LLMs (prompting, fine-tuning, RAG, agentic workflows, or evaluation tooling)
  • •Experience owning ambiguous, high-impact systems from concept to production
  • •Ability to think at the system level while still shipping high-quality code
Experience:6+ yearsFintechData-intensive
Skills:LeadershipCommunicationProblem-solvingMentorship
Tech Stack:PythonLLMRAGRetrievalBack-end

Eligibility

Work Authorization:Authorization required. Sponsorship not provided.

Company Brief

goodfin
Operates an online consumer lending platform that helps users compare and obtain personal loans for debt consolidation and refinancing, offering personalized loan options, rate comparisons, and a streamlined application process.
Industry: Lending
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