Founding Engineer, Applied AI Lead

The role

You will serve as the primary engineer and technical leader, building software to accelerate growth across all teams. You will design and build agent systems, data pipelines, and customer-facing applications to automate and scale investment processes.

What you will do

• Serve as the primary engineer and technical leader
• Partner with Investment, Operations, and GTM teams to find agent workflows
• Own complex projects from prototype through production
• Make key architecture decisions for a growing platform
• Build agents to turn investment data into structured data
• Build agents for multi-step workflows across the investment process
• Build and own data pipelines for fund managers and internal systems
• Build eval suites and capture traces of model and tool calls
• Design and run reliable full-stack applications and APIs
• Eventually hire and lead the engineering team

Required qualifications

• 5+ years of professional software development
• Innate curiosity and passion for the world of investing
• Shipped agent systems that real users depend on
• Built eval suites and instrumented systems for model and tool calls
• Routed work across multiple models or providers
• Build with coding agents every day
• Proven track record of designing, building, deploying and operating complex full-stack web applications
• Hands-on experience cleaning, reconciling and modeling messy real-world data
• Experience building ETL/ELT pipelines and warehouses
• Ability to think critically about product strategy and translate needs into technical solutions
• Ability to work independently and navigate ambiguity
• Excellent verbal and written communication

Nice to have

• Prior experience in fintech, investment technology or financial services
• Experience extracting structured data from messy documents at scale
• Experience fine-tuning, distilling or self-hosting open-weight models
• Experience designing and scaling large-volume data pipelines or distributed systems in the cloud
• Familiarity with advanced data modeling techniques
• Follow AI research closely

About the company

Equi is an investment management firm building institutional-quality alternative investment solutions. They operate a unique business model offering Equi-branded funds and white-label fund-of-funds products.