Senior AI Engineer

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San Francisco / $225000 - $300000 annum

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Salary
SALARY:

$225000 - $300000

Location

LOCATION

San Francisco

Job Type
JOB TYPE

Permanent

Senior AI Engineer

San Francisco or New York · Up to $300k base + significant performance bonus · In-person · No sponsorship

I'm working on a rare and genuinely compelling search with a leading global investment firm. They're building an internal AI function from the ground up - a small, high-impact team embedded directly within the investment organisation - with a mandate to reimagine how investment work gets done using AI.

This is not a side project or an innovation lab. The firm has operated using the same Excel, PowerPoint, and email workflows for 25+ years and has made a deliberate decision to change that. You'll be identifying the repetitive, high-volume analytical work happening across the firm and building the agentic systems that automate and augment it - working directly alongside experienced investment professionals every day.

The culture is flat, entrepreneurial, and deeply technical. These are smart people who take a meritocratic approach and trust their team to manage their own work. If you want proximity to senior decision-makers and real influence over how a firm at this level operates, there aren't many roles like it.

What you'll be doing:

  • Design and build the technical architecture for an AI-powered investment platform, including agentic workflows, RAG systems, and LLM-based tooling
  • Identify repetitive analytical and operational tasks across the firm and build production-grade systems to automate them
  • Integrate LLMs into real investment workflows - connecting AWS, Snowflake, Salesforce, and external data sources
  • Build evaluation frameworks to ensure AI output meets institutional-grade standards
  • Make build-vs-buy recommendations on AI vendors, platforms, and infrastructure
  • Work directly with investment partners and operators, translating complex processes into AI-enabled solutions
  • Provide technical direction and mentorship as the team grows

What my client is looking for:

  • 5-8 years of software engineering experience, with a deliberate recent pivot into AI/GenAI applications
  • Production experience with LLM applications, RAG systems, and agentic frameworks
  • Strong Python and cloud infrastructure (AWS preferred)
  • Solid software engineering fundamentals - architecture, distributed systems, CI/CD
  • Product intuition for AI systems and good judgment on when and how to apply AI effectively
  • Comfortable switching between highly technical conversations and discussions with non-technical senior stakeholders
  • Entrepreneurial mindset - startup background (Series A-C) is ideal
  • Curiosity about investment workflows; prior financial services experience is a plus but not required

Stack includes AWS, Snowflake, Claude, Claude Code, ChatGPT, and Fivetran.

US citizens and GC holders only - no sponsorship available now or in the future.

CONTACT

Daniel Stockwell

Sourcing Consultant

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