AI Engineer (Fintech)

TL;DR

AI Engineer (Fintech): Designing and deploying intelligent systems that automate complex, multi-step financial workflows with an accent on agentic frameworks, orchestration, and pragmatic model selection. Focus on building production-grade AI agents that improve with usage and integrate seamlessly into secure financial platforms.

Location: Must be based in San Francisco

Company

Airwallex is a global payments and financial platform providing integrated solutions for businesses to manage accounts, payments, and treasury at scale.

What you will do

• Architect and deploy AI agents using frameworks like LangChain, LlamaIndex, and AutoGen.
• Apply diverse techniques including prompting, RAG, fine-tuning, and training from scratch.
• Design and optimize agent architectures for reasoning, tool use, and workflow automation.
• Build systems that create compounding AI flywheels through usage and iteration.
• Collaborate with engineering teams to integrate AI reasoning into secure production systems.

Requirements

• 2+ years of experience in applied AI/ML engineering with production deployments.
• Strong proficiency in Python and ML frameworks such as PyTorch, JAX, or TensorFlow.
• Proven track record of building and deploying AI agents or multi-step reasoning systems.
• Understanding of monitoring, evaluation, and iteration cycles in production AI.
• Ability to balance innovation with reliability, scalability, and compliance requirements.

Culture & Benefits

• Work on high-visibility, complex problems with direct customer impact.
• Join a small, elite, builder-focused team led by experienced AI product operators.
• Operate with high autonomy in a fast-paced, founder-like environment.
• Opportunity to build the future of global banking and financial infrastructure.