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Base pay rangeSalary range £80,000 to £120,000 with 0.5-2.5% equity ownership

ResponsibilitiesAs our first hire, you’ll take the lead in building our financial AI agent at the frontier of LLM apps. We expect you to proactively design and apply novel solutions across the entire stack. The primary responsibility is making sure a model always has the right context and answers accurately against eval datasets. You’ll own the agent’s tech roadmap, shape our engineering culture, and grow into a leading expert.

Build our agentic LLM system and ensure it is consistently accurate

Develop how we parse, index, retrieve and cite data from complex financial documents

Create internal evaluation system to measure quality of answers

Come up, quickly prototype, then deploy novel techniques for all of the above

What we’re looking for

Strong software engineer with fluency in Python and TypeScript

Familiarity with building LLM apps, including RAG and prompting

A daily LLM user in both coding and life

Ability to pick the right problem and solve it

Desire and curiosity to study basic financial stuff

Benefits

Salary range £80,000 to £120,000 with 0.5-2.5% equity ownership

A lot of autonomy on tech decisions and architecture

Work with us in person 4-5 days a week from a London office (helping to relocate)

Best health insurance (soon)

Seniority level

Entry level

Employment type

Full-time

Job function

Engineering and Information Technology

Industries

Technology, Information and Internet

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