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We’re hiring a Founding AI Engineer to lead the development of AI systems powering the next generation of intelligent financial tools at Alinea. You will own and evolve AI Allie, our in-app AI investing companion, and help shape how AI is integrated across the entire Alinea platform. This role sits at the intersection of large language models, financial data, and product experience. You’ll build systems that help users learn about investing, make decisions, and engage more deeply with their finances.
Job Responsibility:
Own the architecture and development of AI systems powering AI Allie
Build and ship LLM-powered product features used by hundreds of thousands of users
Design retrieval systems that ground model responses in financial data and internal knowledge
Develop evaluation frameworks to measure model quality, reasoning accuracy, and safety
Improve model performance, latency, and cost efficiency in production
Build infrastructure for prompt orchestration, memory, and contextual personalization
Design guardrails appropriate for financial products and regulated environments
Rapidly prototype and ship new AI-driven product capabilities
Requirements:
3+ years of experience building production software systems
Experience building and shipping LLM-powered applications
Strong understanding of prompt design, model behavior, and evaluation techniques
Experience building RAG systems, embeddings pipelines, or retrieval architectures
Strong backend engineering skills (APIs, data pipelines, system design)
Ability to move quickly from prototype to production
Strong product intuition and desire to build user-facing AI experiences
Nice to have:
Experience building AI features in consumer products
Experience working with financial or structured data
Experience optimizing model cost and latency at scale
Experience with fine-tuning, evaluation pipelines, or model experimentation
What we offer:
Hybrid work environment: 4 days per week in our New York office
Work directly with the founding team
High ownership and the opportunity to shape AI at a rapidly growing fintech company