ZipRecruiter
Head of AI / Principal AI Architect / ML Engineer / Data Scientist
ZipRecruiter, San Francisco, California, United States, 94199
Overview
Role:
Head of AI / Principal AI Architect / ML Engineer / Data Scientist San Francisco (Hybrid)
Position Type:
Full-Time (Permanent or Contract)
Urgency:
URGENT
Start Date:
ASAP
Team Size:
High-agency founding team working at the cutting edge of agentic and multi-modal AI
Compensation & Terms
Base Salary: $200,000 - $350,000 (dependent on experience and level)
Equity: ~2% (flexible based on final role and comp level)
Visa Support: Not available
Sign-On Bonus: Not mentioned
Interview-to-Offer Turnaround: Varies based on scheduling
Role Summary Join a YC-backed, high-growth fintech startup transforming the $1.25T private wealth industry with AI. As Head of AI or Principal AI Architect, you’ll lead the development of foundational model architectures and agentic systems used for financial planning, recommendation, and autonomous analysis. Work directly with the CEO and CTO to bring to life generative copilots, retrieval-augmented advisors, and multi-modal assistants built with LLMs, advanced prompting, and orchestration strategies.
Key Responsibilities
Architect and scale generative AI systems for financial reasoning and planning
Build RAG pipelines to retrieve financial knowledge from structured/unstructured sources
Design autonomous agents to power user-facing workflows and copilot experiences
Apply advanced prompting strategies (Tree of Thoughts, Constitutional AI, Agent protocol)
Collaborate cross-functionally with product, business, and engineering stakeholders
Candidate Must-Haves
Hands-on experience building or fine-tuning LLMs or foundation models
Experience at a top AI lab or foundation model org (e.g., OpenAI, DeepMind, Anthropic, FAIR) PhD (or equivalent) in AI/ML from a top institution (e.g., Stanford, MIT, CMU, Berkeley)
Technical depth
LLMs (e.g., GPT-4, Claude, LLaMA 3)
RAG optimization & hybrid search
Multi-modal systems (text + voice)
Agent orchestration for financial planning or similar use cases
Startup-style work ethic (9am-9pm, 6 days/week)
Comfortable working with non-technical teams
Preferred
Publications in NeurIPS, ICML, ACL, CVPR
Fintech or financial modeling experience
Led AI/ML research teams or zero-to-one product builds
Familiarity with Python, TypeScript, Claude, LLaMA, DynamoDB, AWS
Work Model & Environment
Location: San Francisco (in-office 3 days/week)
Hybrid Schedule: Yes 3 days onsite
Culture: Intense, high-agency, deep technical collaboration
Client Impact: Consumer-facing product already in use with six-figure revenue
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Head of AI / Principal AI Architect / ML Engineer / Data Scientist San Francisco (Hybrid)
Position Type:
Full-Time (Permanent or Contract)
Urgency:
URGENT
Start Date:
ASAP
Team Size:
High-agency founding team working at the cutting edge of agentic and multi-modal AI
Compensation & Terms
Base Salary: $200,000 - $350,000 (dependent on experience and level)
Equity: ~2% (flexible based on final role and comp level)
Visa Support: Not available
Sign-On Bonus: Not mentioned
Interview-to-Offer Turnaround: Varies based on scheduling
Role Summary Join a YC-backed, high-growth fintech startup transforming the $1.25T private wealth industry with AI. As Head of AI or Principal AI Architect, you’ll lead the development of foundational model architectures and agentic systems used for financial planning, recommendation, and autonomous analysis. Work directly with the CEO and CTO to bring to life generative copilots, retrieval-augmented advisors, and multi-modal assistants built with LLMs, advanced prompting, and orchestration strategies.
Key Responsibilities
Architect and scale generative AI systems for financial reasoning and planning
Build RAG pipelines to retrieve financial knowledge from structured/unstructured sources
Design autonomous agents to power user-facing workflows and copilot experiences
Apply advanced prompting strategies (Tree of Thoughts, Constitutional AI, Agent protocol)
Collaborate cross-functionally with product, business, and engineering stakeholders
Candidate Must-Haves
Hands-on experience building or fine-tuning LLMs or foundation models
Experience at a top AI lab or foundation model org (e.g., OpenAI, DeepMind, Anthropic, FAIR) PhD (or equivalent) in AI/ML from a top institution (e.g., Stanford, MIT, CMU, Berkeley)
Technical depth
LLMs (e.g., GPT-4, Claude, LLaMA 3)
RAG optimization & hybrid search
Multi-modal systems (text + voice)
Agent orchestration for financial planning or similar use cases
Startup-style work ethic (9am-9pm, 6 days/week)
Comfortable working with non-technical teams
Preferred
Publications in NeurIPS, ICML, ACL, CVPR
Fintech or financial modeling experience
Led AI/ML research teams or zero-to-one product builds
Familiarity with Python, TypeScript, Claude, LLaMA, DynamoDB, AWS
Work Model & Environment
Location: San Francisco (in-office 3 days/week)
Hybrid Schedule: Yes 3 days onsite
Culture: Intense, high-agency, deep technical collaboration
Client Impact: Consumer-facing product already in use with six-figure revenue
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