Founding AI Engineer

About the role

This role is part of the Jobright TNT - the private hiring network connecting top talent with top AI startups like Perplexity, Mercor, Cresta, Suno and 150 more. This is not a mass job posting. Only select, high-signal candidates are invited to Jobright TNT and recommended directly to hiring teams. Hiring Company: Nexhelm AI. One-liner: Nexhelm AI is building an AI digital coworker for wealth management firms, aiming to reduce manual effort and improve accuracy. Why Join Us: (details integrated into the role description above).

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

Skills

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