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Founding ML engineer

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Hybrid (London, England)£75k - £90kFull-timePosted 11mo ago

About the role

Founding ML engineer role at Diligent, an early-stage fintech risk and compliance AI startup. You’ll help build core AI agent frameworks, deploy and scale LLM-based workflows for financial compliance, and work closely with the founding team to shape the product and engineering practices.

Responsibilities

  • Take ownership of your first module and push improvements to production, impacting customer workflows.
  • Build product infrastructure for LLMs, data sources, and tools to automate workflows for financial compliance teams.
  • Work directly with customers to solve problems, showing high empathy and collaboration with risk teams.
  • Lead feedback calls with customers on modules and own end customer outcomes.
  • Tackle technical and non-technical scaling problems as the company grows.
  • Collaborate with CEO, CTO, and other founders to mature engineering practice.

Qualifications

  • Experience: 1+ years

Skills

Required:NodeJSPythonTypeScript
Nice to have:ReactAWS Serverless

Benefits

  • Equity: 0.5 - 1%
Last updated Oct 14, 2026. Interested? Apply on the company site.
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About Diligent

AI agents for fintech risk and compliance operations

We help fintech risk and AML compliance teams automate and strengthen routine customer due diligence tasks with LLMs. Our AI assistants slash cost-to-comply, improve risk detection and free up capacity for investigations that require human expertise and decision making. Fintechs and banks use us to automate workflows like running thorough due diligence on a legal entity, reviewing customer documents like registry extracts, proofs of address etc and remediating false positive alerts from their AML systems.

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