What are the responsibilities and job description for the Founding AI Engineer position at Tykhe Inc?
Would you be interested working for a fast-growing startup financial company in San Francisco, CA as a "Founding AI Engineer" helping them to build the AI computing platform.
An ideal candidate has deep expertise in modern AI technologies, including multi-modal Large Language Models (LLMs), Retrieval-Augmented Generation (RAG) architectures, and AI agents.
Responsibilities:
- AI Roadmap Development: Develop and execute an AI roadmap that leverages the latest advancements in multi-modal and finance specific models.
- End-to-End Feature Delivery: Implement end-to-end AI feature delivery—from technical design and development to testing, deployment, documentation, and maintenance.
- RAG Pipeline Optimization: Optimize our RAG pipeline and hybrid search systems for financial knowledge retrieval.
- AI Agent Development: Build and manage autonomous AI agents for financial analysis and portfolio management.
Qualifications:
- Degree in Computer Science, AI/ML, or a related field.
- At least 3 years of hands-on experience with software engineering and at least one year specifically with modern LLMs (e.g., Claude, GPT-4, Llama 3) OR 3 years working more generally in AI/ML.
- Deep understanding of RAG architectures and experience optimizing retrieval pipelines.
- Experience with multi-modal AI systems (text, numerical data, and structured documents).
- Expertise in modern prompting techniques (e.g., Tree of Thoughts, Constitutional AI, Agent protocols).
- Experience building and orchestrating AI agents, particularly with tools like LangChain, AutoGen, or CrewAI.
- Strong background in function calling and tool use with LLMs.
- Ability to design and implement robust evaluation frameworks for generative AI systems.
- Proficiency in Python, TypeScript, or similar languages.
