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Founding AI Engineer

Jobright.ai · Seattle, WA · Yesterday
HybridFull-time

Hiring Company

Nexhelm AI is building an AI digital coworker for wealth management firms, aiming to reduce manual effort and improve accuracy.

Why Join Us

Role Responsibilities

  • Build and optimize agentic systems for financial business domain knowledge, task automation and decision support
  • Design and implement data pipelines, memory systems, and contextual planning logic
  • Prototype fast, test in production, and ship features that directly impact users
  • Own infrastructure for evaluating model performance, latency, and reliability
  • Collaborate closely with the CTO and founding team on architecture, product decisions, and go-to-market fit

Qualifications

Required

  • Strong software engineer with 3–5+ years of experience, ideally with a focus in ML, NLP, or AI systems
  • Hands-on experience with LLMs and agentic frameworks (i.e. LangGraph), prompt engineering, fine-tuning, or vector DBs (e.g., Weaviate, Pinecone)
  • Experience building and scaling software systems in production
  • You think in systems and care deeply about both performance and usability
  • Startup-ready: you move fast, have strong ownership, and can thrive in ambiguity

PREFERRED

  • Experience with enterprise SaaS, productivity tools, or knowledge workflows
  • DevOps familiarity: Docker, cloud infrastructure, CI/CD, observability

How can I join Jobright TNT

If this is your first time applying to a Jobright TNT role, the process works as follows:

  1. Apply to your first Jobright TNT role
  2. We review your background to determine if you meet the TNT quality bar
  3. If qualified, your application is directly recommended to the employer
  4. Once accepted into TNT, you may be:
  5. - Invited to apply for other exclusive TNT-only roles
  6. - Invited to private, invite-only hiring events with top startups

You will be notified of your TNT selection result.

PS: All Jobright TNT roles are 100% real, directly hired by top AI startups we partner with, and come with priority review and higher response rates than the normal application queue.

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