Applied AI Engineer, Tech Lead

Arc is the future of startup finance.

Arc helps startups grow through its integrated cash management and capital markets platform. With Arc, companies don't need to choose between safety, liquidity, and returns — they get all three in one software platform.

Startups can access venture debt and working capital, deposit funds into FDIC insurance eligible accounts held at leading banks, and invest idle cash in insured cash sweeps ($5M FDIC insurance eligibility), Money Market Funds, and U.S. Treasury Bills that generate up to ~5.4% APY (as of 1/30/24).

We are seeking our founding AI Engineer, Tech Lead to join the Arc Engineering team. You will work directly alongside the founding team to help Arc reinvent startup financing through technology. Open on leveling.

🚀 What you'll do:

• Drive AI projects end to end working in a cross functional setting.

• Be a thought leader in the company in latest developments in the AI field, including following industry trends and latest papers.

• Collaborate with experienced engineers, product and design to continuously evolve and improve AI powered products.

🌟 What you bring:

• PhD in Computer Science or a related field with a focus on AI/ML.

• 4+ years of industry experience in AI with demonstrated results.

• Experience building Generative AI applications, specifically Agentic flows, RAG, or any state of the art methods in leveraging language models.

• Experience building evaluation frameworks for AI applications that leverage foundational models.

• Strong fundamentals in Software Engineering.

• Ability to drive 0-1 / MVP projects, rapid prototyping.

🥇 What we bring:

• Founding team from Stanford, Ramp, Notion, LinkedIn, Affirm, Fundbox, Meta, Tesla, Brex, Bolt, and beyond.

• Hybrid work from office in San Francisco / NYC.

• Funding from top VC’s like Left Lane, Y Combinator, NfX, Bain Capital, and Clocktower

• Excellent benefits including unlimited PTO, paid medical, dental, vision, etc