Goliath Partners
AI

Artificial Intelligence Engineer

Goliath Partners ·

Actively hiring Posted 4 months ago

A fast-growing NYC startup is building an agentic AI platform purpose-built for investment banks and private equity firms.

They're hiring for a Founding AI Engineer:

  • Lead integration and optimization of LLMs, embedding models, and semantic retrieval into production systems
  • Design and deploy multimodal retrieval + agentic workflows across unstructured and structured financial data
  • Push forward agentic architectures : composability, function calling, modular orchestration
  • Improve retrieval quality and AI outputs using real customer feedback loops
  • Prototype and ship new AI capabilities used by major financial institutions
  • Work closely with engineering, product, and customer teams to translate AI capability into business impact

What They’re Looking For

Core

  • 2+ years deploying ML systems in production
  • Experience integrating closed-source LLM APIs and fine-tuning open-source models
  • Hands-on with embeddings + vector DBs (Pinecone, Weaviate, FAISS, Chroma, PGVector, etc.)
  • Experience building semantic retrieval across mixed data types
  • Strong Python (Hugging Face, PyTorch/TensorFlow, LangChain, etc.)
  • Comfortable with ambiguity and owning projects end-to-end
  • Strong communicator

Nice to Have

  • Experience with agentic systems, function calling, orchestration frameworks
  • Familiarity with financial datasets and retrieval challenges
  • Performance tuning/scalability for AI retrieval
  • Startup or entrepreneurial background
  • Interest in applying generative AI to complex business workflows

Compensation & Benefits

  • $200,000 – $300,000 base
    • meaningful equity

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