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.
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
Company
Covecta
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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