Staff AI Engineer
About the role
Staff AI Engineer role at Goodfin, an AI-native wealth platform focused on private markets. Lead the design, build, and hardening of core AI systems, end-to-end ownership from architecture to deployment, and set technical standards for AI engineering in the company.
Responsibilities
- Architecting LLM-powered, agentic systems for private market research, analysis, and decision support
- Designing hybrid reasoning pipelines that combine LLMs with retrieval, structured financial data, rules, and tools
- Building robust RAG pipelines over unstructured, noisy, and proprietary data (PPMs, decks, filings, internal memos)
- Developing evaluation frameworks for reasoning quality, faithfulness, latency, and cost
- Implementing observability, debugging, and failure-handling for multi-step AI workflows
- Partnering closely with business and design to translate ambiguous user needs into reliable intelligent behavior
- Raising the bar on AI engineering practices across the team through example and mentorship
- Concrete Example: Build an AI deep research analyst that can synthesize deal documents, market data, news articles, and comparable deals into actionable, well-sourced insights—while surfacing nuances rather than hiding it.
Qualifications
- 6+ years of software engineering experience, with deep hands-on work in applied AI / ML systems
- Strong fundamentals in Python and backend system design
- Proven experience with LLMs (prompting, fine-tuning, RAG, agentic workflows, or evaluation tooling)
- Experience owning ambiguous, high-impact systems from concept to production
- Comfort making architectural tradeoffs under real-world constraints
- Ability to think at the system level while still shipping high-quality code
- High product intuition and a strong sense of responsibility for user outcomes
Skills
About goodfin
Building the next generation of wealth
GoodFin is reimagining private wealth in the era of AI. Our mission is to empower a new generation to build wealth, starting with their investments in alternative assets. Our AI-native platform combines a design-forward experience with a backend powered by a system of intelligent agents. We are building a future where AI unlocks financial hyperpersonalization, automation and optimization for sophisticated financial products, which are typically gated by advisors and reserved for very wealthy clients. This highly fragmented $1.25T global services market will undergo a sea change in the coming years, as trillions pass in the largest intergenerational wealth transfer to date. In a world where most financial decisions will become automated, we believe the next category-defining wealth company will still be human-driven at its core – powered by a high-value community like our membership base of professionals, founders and investors. The next generation financial giant will be an AI-native platform that makes wealth creation seamless, personalized, and social. That’s what we’re building.
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