Artificial Intelligence Engineer

Radley James has partnered with a fast-growing AI-driven fintech start-up building infrastructure and automation tools for the alternative investments space. This is an opportunity to work on technology focused on streamlining complex investment workflows across private markets, fund operations and investor management.

The role will focus on building intelligent automation and orchestration systems behind the platform, working across AI-driven workflows, document intelligence, data infrastructure and scalable backend systems within a highly data-intensive environment.

What You’ll Do

· Build and ship production-grade AI/LLM applications used within real-world financial workflows and operational systems

· Own projects end-to-end with significant autonomy, from initial problem definition and prototyping through to deployment and iteration in production

· Develop agentic AI systems and backend services using Python and TypeScript, working across orchestration, data processing and application logic

· Improve reliability and performance of LLM-powered systems operating on complex, real-world financial and operational data

· Contribute to infrastructure, CI/CD and deployment workflows within a fast-paced startup engineering environment

· Work closely with product and engineering teams to deliver scalable AI-driven solutions across alternative investments and financial operations

Requirements

• 1 - 3 years of full-stack experience as an AI systems engineer or an AI product engineer.
• C. S. Degree from a reputable school.
• Proficient in Python AND TypeScript.
• Experience at a start-up as a founder or early engineer
• Applicants must have the right to work in New York without requiring visa sponsorship.
• Willing to work on- site in New York City 3 days a week or more.