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forward deployed ai engineer

Ontrac Solutions

<div><h1 class="jobSectionHeader"><b>Overview</b></h1>
<p>We are seeking a Principal GenAI Architect / Forward Deployed Principal Engineer to lead the design, delivery, and productionization of enterprise-grade Generative AI solutions within a highly regulated banking environment. This role will partner directly with business, product, engineering, architecture, risk, cyber, legal, compliance, and model governance teams to translate high-impact financial services use cases into scalable, secure, and compliant AI systems.</p>
<p>The ideal candidate has deep experience designing and delivering production-scale GenAI solutions across enterprise environments, with strong exposure to banking, financial services, risk management, customer operations, regulatory controls, and data protection requirements. This person will serve as a recognized GenAI expert across the organization, helping define reusable patterns, influence platform roadmaps, and raise the technical bar for responsible AI adoption across lines of business.</p>
<h2 class="jobSectionHeader"><b>Key Responsibilities</b></h2>
<h3 class="jobSectionHeader"><b>GenAI Architecture &amp; Production Readiness</b></h3>
<p>Own and define enterprise-grade GenAI architectures for banking and financial services use cases, including RAG pipelines, agentic workflows, prompt orchestration, and multi-model routing strategies.</p>
<p>Drive production readiness for GenAI solutions, ensuring scalability, resiliency, observability, latency optimization, security, and cost efficiency.</p>
<p>Lead complex architectural decisions across data ingestion, vector databases, model selection, guardrails, API scalability, performance optimization, and secure integration with banking systems.</p>
<p>Establish reference architectures, reusable patterns, and best practices to accelerate responsible GenAI adoption across lines of business.</p>
<p>Partner with central AI platform teams to align solution architecture with enterprise AI services, platform capabilities, banking technology standards, and long-term roadmap priorities.</p>
<h3 class="jobSectionHeader"><b>Banking Use-Case Delivery</b></h3>
<p>Act as a Forward Deployed Principal Engineer, partnering directly with business, product, and engineering teams to deliver high-impact GenAI use cases from ideation through production.</p>
<p>Translate banking and financial services business problems into clear AI system designs, technical requirements, and non-functional requirements with measurable outcomes.</p>
<p>Support GenAI use cases across areas such as customer service, operations, knowledge management, risk, compliance, fraud, employee productivity, document intelligence, and internal workflow automation.</p>
<p>Troubleshoot and resolve complex issues across non-production and production environments.</p>
<p>Partner closely with application teams to ensure AI solutions integrate effectively into existing banking platforms, enterprise workflows, data environments, APIs, and control frameworks.</p>
<p>Influence platform roadmap by feeding real-world banking use-case requirements back into central AI services and enterprise AI platform teams.</p>
<h3 class="jobSectionHeader"><b>Governance, Risk &amp; Compliance</b></h3>
<p>Ensure all AI solutions align with banking risk, cyber, model governance, data protection, privacy, and regulatory expectations.</p>
<p>Partner with Cyber, Model Risk Management, Legal, Compliance, Risk, and Data Governance teams to design compliant AI patterns without slowing delivery.</p>
<p>Embed security, privacy, responsible AI, ethical AI, explainability, human oversight, and auditability into solution design by default.</p>
<p>Help define practical implementation patterns that balance innovation, speed, governance, regulatory expectations, and enterprise control requirements.</p>
<p>Ensure GenAI solutions are designed with appropriate guardrails for sensitive financial data, customer information, personally identifiable information, and regulated business processes.</p>
<h3 class="jobSectionHeader"><b>Organizational Influence &amp; Mentorship</b></h3>
<p>Serve as a recognized GenAI expert across the enterprise, regularly consulted by engineering, architecture, product, risk, compliance, and leadership teams.</p>
<p>Mentor senior and staff-level engineers and help raise the technical bar across banking technology teams.</p>
<p>Contribute to internal communities of practice, architecture reviews, executive-level technical discussions, AI governance forums, and knowledge-sharing sessions.</p>
<p>Represent enterprise GenAI capabilities in internal innovation forums, banking technology discussions, and responsible AI showcases.</p>
<h2 class="jobSectionHeader"><b>Required Qualifications</b></h2>
<p>7+ years of software engineering experience, with significant depth in AI/ML, data-intensive systems, distributed systems, or enterprise-scale platforms.</p>
<p>2+ years of hands-on Python programming experience.</p>
<p>2+ years of experience designing and delivering production-scale Generative AI systems in an enterprise environment.</p>
<p>2+ years of experience with LLMs, prompt engineering, and RAG architecture.</p>
<p>2+ years of experience with vector databases, semantic search, and retrieval systems.</p>
<p>2+ years of experience with API-driven, cloud-native architectures.</p>
<p>2+ years of experience with distributed systems, performance optimization, scalability, and reliability engineering.</p>
<p>Experience working within banking, financial services, fintech, or another highly regulated enterprise environment.</p>
<h2 class="jobSectionHeader"><b>Preferred Qualifications</b></h2>
<p>Strong understanding of banking technology environments and non-functional requirements, including security, scalability, resiliency, observability, latency, auditability, and cost management.</p>
<p>Demonstrated Principal-level impact, with influence across multiple teams, platforms, business units, or lines of business.</p>
<p>Experience operating in highly regulated environments, with financial services or banking experience strongly preferred.</p>
<p>Hands-on experience with agentic AI frameworks, AI workflow orchestration, and multi-model routing.</p>
<p>Prior experience in a Forward Deployed Engineer, embedded engineering, or business-facing technical delivery model.</p>
<p>Experience partnering with risk, cyber, legal, compliance, data governance, or model governance teams to deliver production AI solutions.</p>
<p>Familiarity with banking controls, customer data protection, model risk management, audit requirements, regulatory expectations, and responsible AI principles.</p>
<p>Ability to communicate complex technical concepts clearly to senior executives, technical stakeholders, risk partners, compliance teams, and non-technical business leaders.</p>
<h2 class="jobSectionHeader"><b>Ideal Candidate Profile</b></h2>
<p>The ideal candidate is a hands-on Principal-level engineer and architect who can move seamlessly between strategy, architecture, and execution in a banking environment. They are comfortable working directly with business teams to understand real-world financial services problems, while also going deep with engineering teams on system design, performance, security, governance, and production readiness.</p>
<p>This person brings strong technical judgment, enterprise banking delivery experience, and the ability to build practical, compliant GenAI solutions that can scale responsibly across a large financial institution.</p></div>

Principal AI Engineer

Supplied Talent

<div><p>We're investing heavily in a new product area: browser automation and document intelligence. You'll own this platform end-to-end &mdash; from architecture through shipping. This is not a maintenance role. It's 80% net-new build, with the chance to put your fingerprints on a product line that's already live with customers and growing fast.</p><p></p><p><br>
You'll report directly to the CEO (we're flat), work closely with product and forward-deployed engineering, and selectively join customer calls when you're the subject-matter expert on something you've built.</p><p></p><p><b><br>
WHAT YOU'LL BUILD</b></p><p></p><ul><li><br>
Own the browser automation and document intelligence platform from the ground up</li><li>Build and ship AI agents that handle complex insurance workflows across voice, chat, email, and SMS</li><li>Write production-grade TypeScript/React/Node.js &mdash; first PR to production in week one</li><li>Work cross-functionally with product and forward-deployed engineering teams</li><li>Join customer calls to demo features you've built and advise on technical implementation</li><li>Shape architecture and tooling decisions as one of the earliest engineers at a company scaling fast</li><li>Help define engineering best practices as we grow toward 30 people by end of year</li></ul><p></p><p><b><br>
WHAT WE'RE LOOKING FOR</b></p><p></p><p><b><br>
Experience</b></p><ul><li>4&ndash;8 years of full-stack engineering experience, with clear ownership and progression</li><li>The profile that fits best: someone already performing at a senior level, ready to make the jump to full end-to-end ownership and responsibility</li><li>Strong foundation from a reputable tech company or well-known startup &mdash; we value quality of experience over years</li><li>Proven ability to ship AI or LLM-based products in production &mdash; this is non-negotiable</li></ul><p></p><p><b><br>
Technical Skills</b></p><ul><li>Proficient in a modern language; willingness to work in TypeScript/React/Node.js/Express (our stack)</li><li>Hands-on experience building or integrating LLM-based systems, agents, or AI workflows</li><li>PostgreSQL or similar relational database experience</li><li>AWS or cloud infrastructure experience is a plus, not a requirement</li></ul><p></p><p><b><br>
Academic Background</b></p><ul><li>GPA 3.7+ preferred for candidates earlier in career &mdash; we may request a transcript</li><li>School prestige matters less than how you performed there; what we want to see is that you've pushed yourself</li></ul><p></p><p><b><br>
Who You Are</b></p><ul><li>You want ownership &mdash; not a ticket queue, not a committee. You want to build and see it land with real customers</li><li>You're comfortable being customer-facing and can speak credibly to technical decisions you've made</li><li>You thrive in a high-intensity environment and want to be part of building something from early innings</li></ul><p></p><p><b><br>
TECH STACK</b></p><p></p><p><b><br>
TypeScript</b></p><p><b>
React</b></p><p><b>
Node.js / Express</b></p><p><b>
PostgreSQL</b></p><p><b>
AWS</b></p><p></p><p><br>
We prioritize expertise in your language of choice and the appetite to work in our stack &mdash; we won't disqualify you for coming from a different language background.</p></div>

Senior Full Stack Engineer

Capgemini

<div><div><div><div><p>At Capgemini Engineering, the world leader in engineering services, we bring together a global team of engineers, scientists, and architects to help the world&rsquo;s most innovative companies unleash their potential. From autonomous cars to life-saving robots, our digital and software technology experts think outside the box as they provide unique R&amp;D and engineering services across all industries. Join us for a career full of opportunities. Where you can make a difference. Where no two days are the same.</p>
<div><div><div><h2 class="jobSectionHeader"><b>Location:</b></h2>
</div><div><p>Palo Alto, California</p>
</div></div><div><div><h2 class="jobSectionHeader"><b>About the job you&rsquo;re considering:</b></h2>
</div><div><div>We&rsquo;re seeking an Electrical Design Engineer to join our innovative team focused on building Electronics Control Unit (ECU) for Electric Vehicles. This is a high-impact role where you&rsquo;ll contribute to the design, development, validation and optimization of mission-critical systems used by global enterprises.</div>
</div></div><div><div><h2 class="jobSectionHeader"><b>Your Role:</b></h2>
</div><div><ul><li>Provide ongoing support for deployed hardware systems, ensuring reliability and performance.</li>
<li>Identify opportunities for design enhancements and implement changes to improve efficiency, scalability, and manufacturability.</li>
<li>Lead investigations into hardware failures, applying analytical techniques to identify and resolve root causes.</li>
<li>Develop and execute test plans to validate hardware functionality, performance, and compliance with industry standards.</li>
Work closely with software, firmware, and mechanical engineering teams to ensure seamless integration and product success.<br>
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</li></ul></div></div><div><div><h2 class="jobSectionHeader"><b>Your Skills and Experience:</b></h2>
</div><div><ul><li>Bachelor&rsquo;s degree or higher in Electrical/Electronics/Computer Engineering or a related field, with 7 years of experience in hardware design and development, ideally in Automotive.</li>
<li>Strong foundation in analog and digital circuit design principles.</li>
<li>Proficiency with schematic capture and PCB layout tools such as Altium, Cadence, or OrCAD.</li>
<li>Solid understanding of signal integrity, power integrity, and thermal management.</li>
<li>Hands-on experience with networking and communication protocols (e.g., Ethernet, PCIe, MIPI, GMSL).</li>
<li>Hands-on experiences with High speed design validation and circuit debugging</li>
<li>Demonstrates strong problem-solving skills and keen attention to detail, with the ability to clearly communicate complex technical concepts to diverse audiences through both written and verbal channels</li>
</ul></div></div></div><p>The base compensation range for this role in the posted location is:$65,200-$169,000</p>
<p>Capgemini provides compensation range information in accordance with applicable national, state, provincial, and local pay transparency laws. The base compensation range listed for this position reflects the minimum and maximum target compensation Capgemini, in good faith, believes it may pay for the role at the time of this posting. This range may be subject to change as permitted by law.</p>
<p>The actual compensation offered to any candidate may fall outside of the posted range and will be determined based on multiple factors legally permitted in the applicable jurisdiction.</p>
<p>These may include, but are not limited to: Geographic location, Education and qualifications, Certifications and licenses, Relevant experience and skills, Seniority and performance, Market and business consideration, Internal pay equity.</p>
<p>It is not typical for candidates to be hired at or near the top of the posted compensation range.</p>
<p>In addition to base salary, this role may be eligible for additional compensation such as variable incentives, bonuses, or commissions, depending on the position and applicable laws.</p><br>
<p></p><p><b>Capgemini offers a comprehensive, non-negotiable benefits package to all regular, full-time employees.</b> In the U.S. and Canada, available benefits are determined by local policy and eligibility and may include:</p>
<ul><li>Paid time off based on employee grade (A-F), defined by policy: Vacation: 12-25 days, depending on grade, Company paid holidays, Personal Days, Sick Leave</li>
</ul><ul><li>Medical, dental, and vision coverage (or provincial healthcare coordination in Canada)</li>
<li>Retirement savings plans (e.g., 401(k) in the U.S., RRSP in Canada)</li>
<li>Life and disability insurance</li>
<li>Employee assistance programs</li>
<li>Other benefits as provided by local policy and eligibility</li>
</ul><p><b>Important Notice:</b> Compensation (including bonuses, commissions, or other forms of incentive pay) is not considered earned, vested, or payable until it becomes due under the terms of applicable plans or agreements and is subject to Capgemini&rsquo;s discretion, consistent with applicable laws. The Company reserves the right to amend or withdraw compensation programs at any time, within the limits of applicable legislation.</p><br>
<p></p><p><b>Disclaimers</b></p>
<p>Capgemini is an Equal Opportunity Employer encouraging inclusion in the workplace. Capgemini also participates in the Partnership Accreditation in Indigenous Relations (PAIR) program which supports meaningful engagement with Indigenous communities across Canada by promoting fairness, accessibility, inclusion and respect. We value the rich cultural heritage and contributions of Indigenous Peoples and actively work to create a welcoming and respectful environment. All qualified applicants will receive consideration for employment without regard to race, national origin, gender identity/expression, age, religion, disability, sexual orientation, genetics, veteran status, marital status or any other characteristic protected by law.</p>
<p>This is a general description of the Duties, Responsibilities and Qualifications required for this position. Physical, mental, sensory or environmental demands may be referenced in an attempt to communicate the manner in which this position traditionally is performed. Whenever necessary to provide individuals with disabilities an equal employment opportunity, Capgemini will consider reasonable accommodations that might involve varying job requirements and/or changing the way this job is performed, provided that such accommodation does not pose an undue hardship. Capgemini is committed to providing reasonable accommodation during our recruitment process. If you need assistance or accommodation, please reach out to your recruiting contact.</p>
<p>Please be aware that Capgemini may capture your image (video or screenshot) during the interview process and that image may be used for verification, including during the hiring and onboarding process.</p>
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<p></p><p>Capgemini is a global business and technology transformation partner, helping organizations to accelerate their dual transition to a digital and sustainable world, while creating tangible impact for enterprises and society. It is a responsible and diverse group of 340,000 team members in more than 50 countries. With its strong over 55-year heritage, Capgemini is trusted by its clients to unlock the value of technology to address the entire breadth of their business needs. It delivers end-to-end services and solutions leveraging strengths from strategy and design to engineering, all fueled by its market leading capabilities in AI, generative AI, cloud and data, combined with its deep industry expertise and partner ecosystem.</p></div></div></div></div><p></p>

Hardware Design Engineer

Smvsoft LLC

<p><b>Founding Engineer - Applied AI</b><br/>San francisco, CA (Full time)- In-Office</p><p>$180k-$230k per annum</p><p><b>NO C2C</b></p><p><b>About the Role</b></p><p>Hiring a world-class Applied AI Engineer to build the core systems behind their automation engine for hardware engineering.</p><p>This is a deeply technical, high-impact role. You will be among the first technical hires and will own mission-critical systems end-to-end. The problems are ambiguous, the constraints are real, and the expectations are high. If you move fast from idea to production, care deeply about customer experience, and want to build foundational AI infrastructure for the world's most impactful industries, this role is for you.</p><p><b>Key Responsibilities</b></p><ul><li>Design and implement core workflows and infrastructure for hardware engineering agents, including intelligent context management, novel indexing approaches, and post-training</li><li>Build agents and ML models that can interpret, reason over, and manipulate complex engineering design data, integrating with enterprise-grade engineering tools and systems</li><li>Work closely with customers and the engineering team to deliver AI-powered workflows that are reliable, intuitive, and trusted in production environments</li><li>Prototype rapidly, validate ideas with real users, and ship frequently</li><li>Influence engineering culture, architecture decisions, and the future of the product</li></ul><p><b>Requirements</b></p><p><b>Must-Have</b></p><ul><li>Bachelor's or higher in Computer Science, Machine Learning, or equivalent experience</li><li>Strong familiarity with LLM architectures and agent research trends</li><li>Excellent programming skills with experience using ML libraries such as PyTorch, Hugging Face, and W&amp;B</li><li>Experience building production ML or AI systems</li><li>Solid practical experience with search and information retrieval</li><li>Moves fast from idea to production, with a genuine care for customer experience</li><li>Based in or willing to relocate to San Francisco, or an exceptional remote candidate</li></ul><p><b>Nice-to-Have</b></p><ul><li>2+ years in applied machine learning, backend engineering, or AI infrastructure</li><li>Experience working with machine learning over geometric data, including CAD</li><li>Track record of high-impact contributions or published papers at top-tier AI labs or teams</li></ul><p>Pay: $180,000.00 - $230,000.00 per year</p><p>Work Location: In person</p>

Founding Engineer - Applied AI

Hellyeah AI

<p><b>AI Engineer - Learn Engine: Intelligence &amp; Optimization</b></p><p>Location: San Francisco HQ; Shanghai</p><p>Address: San Francisco, California</p><p>Employment Type: Full time</p><p>Location Type: Hybrid</p><p>Department: Engineering</p><p>Compensation: San Francisco $200K - $1M + 0.5% - 3% equity</p><p>Build the brain of an autonomous growth OS. The system you create will manage millions in ad spend and get measurably smarter with every dollar. This is the moat: every competitor has humans optimizing campaigns manually. You are building the intelligence layer that compounds. The Platform engineer creates the tools; you create the decisions. Together you build something nobody else has.</p><p>Must Have</p><p>- Has built recommendation, optimization, or decision systems where outputs improve future inputs.</p><p>- Strong statistical reasoning and experimentation judgment under noisy real-world data.</p><p>- Strong LLM orchestration or agent-system experience for reasoning over campaign context.</p><p>- Can design optimization policies, scoring systems, or automated recommendation loops.</p><p>- AI-first development workflow and ability to ship production systems quickly.</p><p>Nice to Have</p><p>- Ad-tech optimization patterns: bid management, budget allocation, ROAS optimization.</p><p>- Reinforcement learning experience.</p><p>- Hyperparameter optimization experience.</p><p>- Model fine-tuning experience.</p><p>- Experience building agent-driven automation where LLM agents take actions.</p><p>- Background in growth engineering, performance marketing, or data science.</p><p>- Experience with Mastra or similar agent orchestration framework.</p><p>What You Will Own</p><p>Own the intelligence and optimization layer of Learn Engine. Build recommendation engines for bid changes, budget reallocation, pause/boost decisions, and postback optimization. Turn SSOT campaign data into high-quality optimization guidance and closed-loop decision systems. Define how the system learns from outcomes and continuously improves campaign strategy over time. This role owns decision quality, optimization policy, and learning loops, not platform plumbing or simulator infrastructure.</p><p>Pay: $200,000.00 - $1,000,000.00 per year</p><p>Work Location: In person</p>

AI Engineer - Learn Engine: Intelligence & Optimization

Vast

<div><h1 class="jobSectionHeader"><b>Developer Experience Engineer</b></h1><p>
Vast.ai &middot; Los Angeles or San Francisco Bay Area</p><h3 class="jobSectionHeader"><b>
About Us</b></h3><p>
Vast.ai&rsquo;s cloud powers AI projects and businesses all over the world. We are democratizing and decentralizing AI computing&mdash;reshaping our future for the benefit of humanity.</p><p>
We are a growing and highly motivated team dedicated to an ambitious technical plan. Our structure is flat, our ambitions are out‑sized, and leadership is earned by shipping excellence.</p><p>
We seek engineers with strong intrinsic drive, a true passion for advancing the state of the art, and a mix of architecture, coding, and communication skills.</p><p>
We've never had a dedicated role focused on the developers who build on Vast: the people renting compute from us to train and ship their models. That's what we're hiring for. You'll be our first DevEx Engineer, and you'll own the experience of building on Vast: the reference implementations and example code developers copy, and how we show up in the community around them.</p><h2 class="jobSectionHeader"><b><br>
Why now</b></h2><p>
There's already an active community around Vast in our Discord, on Reddit, on X, and in YouTube comments. Some of it is the builders you'll serve; some of it is hosts and noise. Nobody on our side is really in there today, and our competitors staff this heavily. So part of the job is showing up for the developers who are already here, and part of it is growing the right audience around them.<br>
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<b>What you'll own</b></p><ul><li><p>
Technical content. Tutorials, example repos, and short videos that show people how to get something running on Vast. The useful kind that developers pass around on their own.</p></li><li><p>
Product feedback. You'll hear what's broken before anyone else does. Get it back to the product team, clearly and often.</p></li><li><p>
Events. Run our presence at hackathons (we already have sponsorships lined up), meetups, and conferences, including getting on a plane and showing up in person.</p></li><li><p>
Community. Be a real presence in our Discord, on Reddit, and on X. Answer the actual technical questions people ask, the kind they post at 1am when a container won't start. Set the tone for how Vast talks to developers.</p></li><li><p>
Creator partnerships. Work with developer-focused YouTubers and other creators, the ones with real audiences rather than bought ones.</p></li></ul><p><b><br>
What you won't own</b></p><p>
To be straight about scope: this role doesn't cover paid ads, brand and positioning strategy, or the growth dashboard. It's also focused on the demand side, the developers who build on Vast, not our GPU hosts and suppliers, who have their own very different needs. Other people own all of that and you'll partner with them. We want your time going into the builder community and the content that serves it, because that's where it pays off.<br>
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<b>Who you are</b></p><ul><li><p>
You've been an engineer. You can deploy a model and debug someone's setup, and developers can tell you've done the work yourself. This part can't be faked.</p></li><li><p>
You've built a developer community before, ideally close to from scratch. You know what makes one grow and what quietly kills it.</p></li><li><p>
You like people more than most engineers do. Writing, posting, talking, showing up at events. That's the actual day-to-day.</p></li><li><p>
You run yourself. Nobody's going to hand you a content calendar, and you'd rather ship something than sit in a planning meeting about it.</p></li></ul><p><b><br>
Nice to have</b></p><ul><li><p>
Time at a cloud, GPU, AI-infrastructure, or developer-tools company.</p></li><li><p>
Something you've made that traveled: a tutorial series people reference, a repo with real stars, a talk that got passed around.</p></li><li><p>
Working knowledge of the AI/ML stack: model deployment, inference, fine-tuning.</p></li></ul><p><b><br>
Your first 90 days</b></p><ul><li><p>
Get a steady, regular presence going on Reddit and Discord.</p></li><li><p>
Ship your first batch of tutorials and example repos.</p></li><li><p>
Represent Vast at a hackathon we're already sponsoring this summer.</p></li><li><p>
Give us a clear read on how other GPU and AI-infra companies show up with developers, and where we're behind.</p></li></ul><p><b><br>
Compensation and location</b></p><p>
$160,000&ndash;$200,000 base depending on experience, plus equity. We're profitable, venture-backed, and growing, so the equity is a stake in a real company with a real valuation, not a lottery ticket. Los Angeles or San Francisco Bay Area. Travel and conference budget covered.</p><h3 class="jobSectionHeader"><b>
Benefits</b></h3><ul><li><p>
Comprehensive health, dental, vision, and life insurance</p></li><li><p>
401(k) with company match</p></li><li><p>
Meaningful early-stage equity</p></li><li><p>
Onsite meals, snacks, and close collaboration with founders/tech leaders</p></li><li><p>
Ambitious, fast-paced startup culture where initiative is rewarded</p></li></ul><p>
Compensation Range: $160K - $200K</p></div>

Developer Experience Engineer

Anthropic

<div><div><h2 class="jobSectionHeader"><b>About Anthropic</b></h2>
<p>
Anthropic&rsquo;s mission is to create reliable, interpretable, and steerable AI systems. We want AI to be safe and beneficial for our users and for society as a whole. Our team is a quickly growing group of committed researchers, engineers, policy experts, and business leaders working together to build beneficial AI systems.</p></div><div><h2 class="jobSectionHeader"><b>
About the role</b></h2>
<p>
The Fraud Prevention team protects Anthropic's payment and monetization surfaces from financial abuse &mdash; keeping fraud losses, dispute rates, and network monitoring exposure in check while preserving a smooth experience for legitimate customers. As a software engineer on this team, you will build the systems that make risk decisions in real time, manage the dispute and chargeback lifecycle, and detect monetization abuse across subscriptions, in-app purchases, and promotions. The ideal candidate can see things from attackers' perspectives, anticipate their responses to countermeasures, and never loses sight of the fact that a false positive here is a paying customer.</p>
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Payments fraud is more externally coupled than most trust and safety work &mdash; you'll collaborate closely with finance, support, and legal teams internally, and with payment processors and platform partners externally.</p>
<h2 class="jobSectionHeader"><b>
Responsibilities:</b></h2>
<ul><li>Design and build real-time risk decisioning that scores transactions at authorization time, balancing fraud loss, approval rates, and latency constraints</li>
<li>Build tooling and automation for the dispute and chargeback lifecycle, from review queues to evidence collection and loss reporting</li>
<li>Engineer fraud signals at scale &mdash; device fingerprinting, BIN and issuer signals, velocity features, and cross-account linkage &mdash; and detect monetization abuse across subscriptions, trials, promotions, and in-app purchases</li>
<li>Own a portfolio of metrics &mdash; loss rate, dispute rate, authorization approval impact, and false-positive rate &mdash; rather than optimizing any single number</li>
<li>Lead investigations into emerging fraud patterns, building multi-layered defenses designed for attacker adaptation rather than point-in-time rules</li>
<li>Work cross-functionally with finance, support, legal, and data science, and with external payment processors and platform partners</li>
</ul><h2 class="jobSectionHeader"><b>Minimum Qualifications:</b></h2>
<ul><li>Proficiency in Python, SQL, and data analysis tools</li>
<li>Experience building or operating fraud, risk, or abuse detection systems in production</li>
<li>Strong communication skills and ability to explain complex technical tradeoffs to non-technical stakeholders</li>
</ul><h2 class="jobSectionHeader"><b>Preferred Qualifications:</b></h2>
<ul><li>8+ years of industry software engineering experience, with a focus on payments fraud or risk</li>
<li>Fluency with payments rails: card networks, payment service providers (e.g., Stripe, Adyen), in-app purchase platforms (Apple, Google), refund flows, and the chargeback and dispute lifecycle</li>
<li>Direct experience combating fraud typologies such as card testing, stolen-card monetization, refund and chargeback abuse, subscription and trial abuse, promotional abuse, and friendly fraud</li>
<li>Understanding of fraud loss accounting &mdash; fraud loss vs. dispute fees vs. card network monitoring programs (e.g., VDMP, i VFMP, Mastercard ECP) &mdash; and why chargeback rate thresholds carry existential stakes</li>
<li>Experience building hybrid rules-and-ML risk systems: real-time scoring at authorization plus post-authorization review workflows</li>
<li>Experience at a marketplace or subscription business, or on a processor-side or issuer-side risk team</li>
</ul></div><div><div><div><div><p>
The annual compensation range for this role is listed below.</p>
<p>
For sales roles, the range provided is the role&rsquo;s On Target Earnings (&quot;OTE&quot;) range, meaning that the range includes both the sales commissions/sales bonuses target and annual base salary for the role.</p></div></div><p>
Annual Salary:</p><p>
$320,000 - $485,000 USD</p></div></div><div><h2 class="jobSectionHeader"><b>
Logistics</b></h2>
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Minimum education: </b>Bachelor&rsquo;s degree or an equivalent combination of education, training, and/or experience</p>
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Required field of study: </b>A field relevant to the role as demonstrated through coursework, training, or professional experience</p>
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Minimum years of experience: </b>Years of experience required will correlate with the internal job level requirements for the position</p>
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Location-based hybrid policy:</b> Currently, we expect all staff to be in one of our offices at least 25% of the time. However, some roles may require more time in our offices.</p>
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Visa sponsorship:</b> We do sponsor visas! However, we aren't able to successfully sponsor visas for every role and every candidate. But if we make you an offer, we will make every reasonable effort to get you a visa, and we retain an immigration lawyer to help with this.</p>
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We encourage you to apply even if you do not believe you meet every single qualification.</b> Not all strong candidates will meet every single qualification as listed. Research shows that people who identify as being from underrepresented groups are more prone to experiencing imposter syndrome and doubting the strength of their candidacy, so we urge you not to exclude yourself prematurely and to submit an application if you're interested in this work. We think AI systems like the ones we're building have enormous social and ethical implications. We think this makes representation even more important, and we strive to include a range of diverse perspectives on our team.<br>
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<b>Your safety matters to us.</b> To protect yourself from potential scams, remember that Anthropic recruiters only contact you from @anthropic.com email addresses. In some cases, we may partner with vetted recruiting agencies who will identify themselves as working on behalf of Anthropic. Be cautious of emails from other domains. Legitimate Anthropic recruiters will never ask for money, fees, or banking information before your first day. If you're ever unsure about a communication, don't click any links&mdash;visit anthropic.com/careers directly for confirmed position openings.</p>
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How we're different</b></h2>
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We believe that the highest-impact AI research will be big science. At Anthropic we work as a single cohesive team on just a few large-scale research efforts. And we value impact &mdash; advancing our long-term goals of steerable, trustworthy AI &mdash; rather than work on smaller and more specific puzzles. We view AI research as an empirical science, which has as much in common with physics and biology as with traditional efforts in computer science. We're an extremely collaborative group, and we host frequent research discussions to ensure that we are pursuing the highest-impact work at any given time. As such, we greatly value communication skills.</p>
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The easiest way to understand our research directions is to read our recent research. This research continues many of the directions our team worked on prior to Anthropic, including: GPT-3, Circuit-Based Interpretability, Multimodal Neurons, Scaling Laws, AI &amp; Compute, Concrete Problems in AI Safety, and Learning from Human Preferences.</p>
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Come work with us!</b></h2>
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Anthropic is a public benefit corporation headquartered in San Francisco. We offer competitive compensation and benefits, optional equity donation matching, generous vacation and parental leave, flexible working hours, and a lovely office space in which to collaborate with colleagues. <b>Guidance on Candidates' AI Usage:</b> Learn about our policy for using AI in our application process.</p></div></div>

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