Jobs · Washington

Founding AI Engineer

Jobright.ai · Seattle, WA · 3 days ago
HybridFull-time

Why Join Us

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

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

  • 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

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