Sr. Applied AI Engineer @ Taktile | Jobright.ai

Sr. Applied AI Engineer

Location: New York, NY
Job Type: Full-time
Work Model: Hybrid
Level: Senior
Salary: $160K/yr - $200K/yr
Experience Required: 3+ years

Company: Taktile empowers financial institutions to transform into truly AI-native organizations. They are seeking a Senior Applied AI Engineer to build advanced AI products that address financial crime and credit risk challenges, acting as a product owner for the AI agents created.

Responsibilities

Build Reusable AI Products: Act as the product owner for your application area. Design, develop, and deploy robust, repeatable Generative AI agents that serve as configurable solutions for our customers.
Drive Scalable Value: Partner with Solution and Forward Deployed Engineers during critical sales and implementation projects to deeply understand customer needs. Develop standard templates and reusable components that reduce time-to-activation and solve core challenges.
Product Vision and Iteration: Synthesize customer feedback into a clear vision for your agents. Iterate on your solutions to solve concrete use cases at scale, treating every agent as a product itself.
Collaborate with Core Product: Work closely with the core product team to prioritize platform features that unblock application development, and act as an expert user consultant during the development of new features.

Qualification

Core Skills:

Python
SQL
REST APIs
Financial crime detection
Credit risk assessment
Statistical modeling
Machine learning
AWS/Azure/GCP
Product ownership mindset
Customer-facing communication

Required

You bring 3-6 years of data science, software engineering, consulting, or product management experience that includes customer-facing work or product ownership. You have a strong technical or quantitative background, preferably in fields such as Computer Science, Mathematics, Software Engineering, Physics, Data Science, or Economics. You are eager to dive into the domain of our customers, including credit underwriting, financial risk assessment, and financial crime detection. You write clean, maintainable Python and SQL, and have a good understanding of REST APIs. You excel at breaking down complex problems and abstracting them into scalable, reusable solutions. You build strong relationships with both technical and business stakeholders at all levels, driven by a product-centric mindset to understand their needs and solve their challenges at scale. You are open to a hybrid work model and can work from our NYC office at least three days per week.

Preferred

You have experience in building AI applications within financial services. You have experience in applying and optimizing statistical and machine learning models to solve business problems. You have experience with at least one of the major cloud platforms (AWS, Azure, GCP).

Benefits

Offers Equity: Receive a top-of-market equity and cash compensation package.
Get access to a self-development budget you can use to e.g. attend conferences, buy books or take classes.
Use the equipment of your choice including meaningful home office set-up.

Company

Taktile

Founded: 2020
Location: New York, New York, USA
Employees: 201-500
Website: https://www.taktile.com

H1B Sponsorship

Taktile has a track record of offering H1B sponsorships. Please note that this does not guarantee sponsorship for this specific role. Additional info: Distribution of Different Job Fields Receiving Sponsorship - 100% Represents job field similar to this job: Engineering and Development.

Funding

Current Stage: Growth Stage
Total Funding: $208.7M
Key Investors: Goldman Sachs Growth Equity, Balderton Capital, Index Ventures, Tiger Global Management

Leadership Team

Maik Taro Wehmeyer - Co-Founder & CEO
Dr. Maximilian Eber - Co-Founder & CPTO

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