As the most senior AI hire, you will architect a sophisticated multi-agent orchestration layer for regulated financial institutions. Moving beyond simple wrappers, you'll solve high-stakes technical challenges in document intelligence, automated underwriting, and hallucination detection. This is a hands-on leadership role shaping the future of a platform already trusted by marquee enterprise banks.
Staff AI Engineer at Salesforce Ventures-backed Agentic AI startup
Are you a deep AI specialist tired of building basic LLM wrappers? This Salesforce Ventures-backed fintech is building something much harder: a sophisticated multi-agent orchestration platform already being used by enterprise banks like Metro Bank. As the most senior AI hire, you'll architect the intelligence layer for a $36 trillion industry, working alongside founders who scaled their previous firm to a €4.7bn valuation. From solving document intelligence on 200-page credit memos to building auditable reasoning trails, you will lead the technical direction of a platform that delivers 60-80% time savings for mission-critical banking operations.
Overview
Role overview
Company
Covecta
$6.5M Seed-stage Agentic AI platform led by Salesforce Ventures
Responsibilities
What you will do
- Design and own the core agentic orchestration engine that coordinates dozens of specialized agents across complex financial lifecycles and human-in-the-loop workflows.
- Build advanced NLP and OCR pipelines to extract structured reasoning and data from messy financial paperwork, bank statements, and 200-page credit memos.
- Establish rigorous evaluation and alignment frameworks to ensure auditable AI decision trails, meeting the strict trust thresholds required by global financial institutions.
Candidate profile
Who this is a fit for
- Deep hands-on expertise shipping production-grade AI systems, specifically focusing on NLP, agentic architectures, or information extraction rather than just basic API integration.
- Strong research instinct and architectural judgment, capable of translating emerging techniques in hallucination detection and structured reasoning into reliable, scalable production code.
- Proven ability to operate with high ownership in a fast-paced environment, making consequential technical decisions while contributing as a high-impact individual programmer every day.
What makes it remarkable
Why this role is remarkable
- Lead AI strategy at a startup that scaled from MVP to paying enterprise customers like Metro Bank in under a year, targeting a $36 trillion industry.
- Work directly with a founding team of former Mambu, McKinsey, and Accenture leaders who have previously scaled fintech valuations from €1.9bn to €4.7bn.
- Tackle genuinely hard engineering problems in a high-stakes regulated environment where accuracy, explainability, and multi-step reasoning are mission-critical requirements.
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