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Covecta

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London, UK£120k-150k + Equity

Staff AI Engineer at Covecta - Salesforce Ventures backed AI startup

Covecta is hiring a Staff AI Engineer to lead the technical direction of their Agentic AI platform for financial institutions. Backed by a $6.5M seed round from Salesforce Ventures, Covecta is moving beyond 'LLM wrappers' to build a sophisticated orchestration layer that handles everything from credit underwriting to KYC screening. This is a rare chance to join a talent-dense, revenue-generating startup as their most senior AI hire, solving high-stakes accuracy and auditability challenges for major banks. If you have deep expertise in NLP and multi-agent systems and want to shape the future of a $36 trillion industry, this is the role for you.

Overview

Role overview

As the most senior AI hire, you will lead the technical direction of a purpose-built platform orchestrating dozens of specialized agents across the financial services lifecycle. Moving beyond simple wrappers, you will solve complex document intelligence and multi-agent coordination challenges for major institutions like Metro Bank in a highly regulated, high-stakes environment.

Company

Covecta

Covecta

15-30 employees

Covecta - Seed-stage Agentic AI platform backed by Salesforce Ventures

Responsibilities

What you will do

  • Design and own the agentic orchestration layer that coordinates 50+ specialized financial agents with human-in-the-loop oversight.
  • Architect robust evaluation and alignment frameworks to ensure accuracy, explainability, and policy compliance in regulated banking workflows.
  • Build intelligent document processing pipelines to extract structured data from complex financial paperwork like regulatory filings and credit memos.

Candidate profile

Who this is a fit for

  • Extensive hands-on experience shipping production-grade AI systems, specifically within NLP, document intelligence, or agentic systems.
  • Strong research instinct with the ability to translate emerging techniques into reliable systems using structured reasoning and guardrail design.
  • High-velocity startup mindset with the architectural judgment to make consequential build-versus-buy decisions and shape a growing engineering culture.

What makes it remarkable

Why this role is remarkable

  • Lead AI engineering at a startup that scaled from MVP to paying enterprise customers across the UK and US in under a year.
  • Work on high-stakes technical challenges including multi-agent orchestration, hallucination detection, and auditable AI for a $36 trillion industry.
  • Join a talent-dense team founded by former Mambu and McKinsey leaders, backed by a recent $6.5M seed round led by Salesforce Ventures.

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