Data Scientist — AI Agents | Fintech Startup | Midtown New York | $150k–$200k

📍 Full-time | In-office | Midtown Manhattan

The Opportunity

A well-funded, revenue-generating AI startup is scaling its core technical team. Already embedded with some of the world's largest financial institutions, they're building next-generation AI agent systems that automate complex financial workflows and they're looking for a talented Data Scientist to join as one of their earliest hires.

This is a rare chance to work directly with experienced founders (backgrounds include top-tier tech and private equity), own meaningful technical decisions from day one, and help shape a product with real traction in a trillion-dollar market.

What You'll Do

Design, implement, and evaluate LLM-based agentic AI systems for real-world financial workflows
Build evaluation frameworks to track and optimise AI agent performance over time
Apply prompt engineering, context optimisation, and adapter tuning to improve LLM outputs
Explore and prototype cutting-edge AI architectures (ReAct, graph-of-thoughts, ensembling, etc.)
Apply data science and ML techniques to tasks like financial screening, due diligence, and asset monitoring
Translate statistical insights for non-technical and executive stakeholders

What We're Looking For

5–10 years of experience in data science or AI/ML engineering
Demonstrable experience building production LLM applications and agentic systems not just training models
Strong Python skills and comfort with data analysis at scale
Experience designing evaluation frameworks for AI systems
A daily AI user you actively use tools like Claude, Cursor, or ChatGPT in your own workflow
Clear communicator who can present complex ideas simply

Bonus Points:

Background in financial services, investment analysis, or risk modelling
Experience with ML deployment pipelines or embedded analytics

Why Apply?

$150,000–$200,000 base salary depending on experience
Ground-floor opportunity at a company with real revenue and enterprise clients
Direct access to founders and genuine technical ownership
In-office culture in Midtown NYC collaborative, high-energy, high-output

📩 Interested? Apply below or send your CV and a brief note on a recent AI project you've worked on.

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