Senior Back End Engineer, Hazel AI

The role

You will build the AI engine for Hazel, an AI assistant for wealth management. This involves architecting systems to connect to user systems, parsing data, and delivering proactive insights.

What you will do

• Architect robust systems across data, model and product layers
• Build scalable data pipelines to store, sync and extract information
• Optimize search and retrieval infrastructure for low latency responses
• Collaborate with product managers and subject matter experts to build steerable AI systems
• Craft and maintain evaluation datasets and scoring modules
• Identify, unblock and mitigate risks
• Act as a leader and steward of engineering best practices
• Mentor other engineers

Required qualifications

• 6+ years of experience
• Experience contributing towards building ML systems at scale in a production setting
• Experience building or using ranking or recommender systems, generative AI products, or vector databases, search indices, or other data stores for search and retrieval use cases
• Bachelors/Master's degree in Computer Science, Machine Learning, Data Science, or a related field
• Deep understanding of data structures, algorithms, and sound software engineering principles
• Excellent problem solving skills

Nice to have

• Familiarity with statistical and mathematical underpinnings of machine learning and large language models

Benefits

• Stunning, amenity-filled office spaces in Culver City, CA, San Francisco, CA, and Dallas, TX
• Competitive total compensation
• Premium healthcare, dental, and vision insurance plans (HMO and PPO)
• 401k savings plan with a 4% match and immediate vesting
• 16 week paid parental leave after one year of employment
• Professional growth and development opportunities including an employee mobility program and an annual L&D budget allocation
• Company perks program including discounts on pet insurance, fitness, cell phone plans, and travel
• Financial guidance program

About the company

Altruist is building an AI platform for wealth professionals to transform the wealth management industry. Hazel is an AI engine built by Altruist to help financial advisors achieve growth and efficiency.