Pear-VC

Founding AI Engineer - Manhattan Labs

San Francisco Bay Area. Posted 5 months ago

The role

You will architect and build an AI-native platform that operates as an investigative brain for compliance teams. You will take the product from early-stage MVP to a secure, reliable, enterprise-grade system.

What you will do

  • Design, build, and operate RAG and agentic systems over complex financial data
  • Develop scalable backend services for document processing, async job queues, and risk scoring
  • Own the productionization of AI systems including evaluation pipelines and rollout strategies
  • Harden the platform for enterprise with auth controls, audit trails, and monitoring
  • Establish CI/CD, deployment pipelines, runbooks, and incident response practices
  • Propose and engage in cutting-edge AI research related to agentic reasoning
  • Work with the founding team to define architecture, technical roadmap, and product direction

Required qualifications

  • 1+ years of experience on technical projects
  • Strong TypeScript and Python skills across modern frontend and backend stacks
  • Hands-on experience shipping LLM integrations or RAG systems into production user-facing products
  • Experience with document processing, entity extraction, and structured data extraction from messy real-world sources
  • Solid grasp of API design, relational databases, and async job processing systems
  • Proven track record taking a product from works locally to reliable production at growing scale
  • Debugging instincts across frontend, backend, infra, and data boundaries

Nice to have

  • Startup experience strongly preferred
  • Knowledge of KYC/KYB/AML workflows, sanctions screening, beneficial ownership data, or regulated fintech
  • Experience with LangChain, LlamaIndex, or similar AI orchestration frameworks
  • Familiarity with banking APIs, core banking systems, or financial data providers
  • Familiarity with OCR and document intelligence pipelines
  • Background in fintech, compliance, RegTech, or other regulated industries
  • Cloud deployment experience and DevOps knowledge in security-sensitive environments
  • Strong product intuition and user experience focus

Benefits

  • Competitive salary and equity
  • 100% health, dental, and vision coverage
  • Commuter stipend
  • Regular team events and off-sites

About the company

Pear-VC is building an AI-native compliance platform for community banks and financial institutions. The team includes engineers and researchers from Stanford, Carnegie Mellon, and IIT Madras.