Staff AI Engineer

Airwallex
San Francisco
Workplace: HybridFull timeUSD 182,000 - 310,000 annuallyFunction: Data Science & Machine LearningExperience: 5+ yearsSkills: ["Problem-solving","Collaboration","Communication","Ownership"]

Design and deploy intelligent AI systems that automate complex, multi-step financial workflows. Build production-ready agents using LangChain, LlamaIndex and other stacks, while collaborating with backend/frontend teams to integrate reasoning into secure systems. You will apply prompting, RAG, fine-tuning, or training from scratch and optimize architectures for reliability, scalability and impact in a rapidly evolving fintech environment.

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Airwallex
Airwallex
5 months ago

Staff AI Engineer

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Job Summary

Design and deploy intelligent AI systems that automate complex, multi-step financial workflows. Build production-ready agents using LangChain, LlamaIndex and other stacks, while collaborating with backend/frontend teams to integrate reasoning into secure systems. You will apply prompting, RAG, fine-tuning, or training from scratch and optimize architectures for reliability, scalability and impact in a rapidly evolving fintech environment.
Location: San Francisco
Workplace: Hybrid
Employment Type: Full time
Job Function: Data Science & Machine Learning

Key Responsibilities

  • •Architect and deploy AI agents using frameworks like LangChain, LlamaIndex, AutoGen, CrewAI, Semantic Kernel, and emerging OSS stacks.
  • •Apply the right techniques across the AI spectrum — prompting, RAG, fine-tuning, or training from scratch.
  • •Design and optimize agent architectures for reasoning, tool use, and workflow automation.
  • •Build systems that improve with usage, creating compounding AI flywheels.
  • •Work with backend and frontend engineers to integrate AI reasoning into secure, production systems.

Pay and Benefits

Salary: USD 182,000 - 310,000 annually
Equity and Bonus:Equity

Key Requirements

  • •5+ years in applied AI/ML engineering with production deployments.
  • •Strong Python skills and experience with ML frameworks (PyTorch, JAX, TensorFlow).
  • •Track record of building and deploying AI agents, orchestration frameworks, or multi-step reasoning systems.
  • •Understanding of monitoring, evaluation, and iteration in production AI systems.
  • •Ability to balance innovation with reliability, scalability, and compliance.
Experience:5+ yearsFintechAI/MLProduction deployments
Skills:Problem-solvingCollaborationCommunicationOwnership
Languages:English
Tech Stack:PythonPyTorchJAXTensorFlowLangChainLlamaIndexAutoGenCrewAISemantic KernelOSS stacksRAGFine-tuningTraining from scratch

Company Brief

Airwallex
Airwallex is a global payments and financial platform that provides business accounts, cross-border payments, treasury, corporate cards, and embedded finance APIs to help companies manage global financial operations and scale internationally.
Industry: Fintech Infrastructure
Company Size: Enterprise (1,001+ employees)
Revenue: USD 1B+
Growth: Scaleup
Valuation: Unicorn (USD 1B+)
Funding: Series E+
Headquarters: Singapore, Singapore
Founded: 2015
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