Applied AI/ML Engineer

Confido; New York (NY); On-site; USD 160,000 - 230,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Equity

Fully paid health coverage through AET

Top-tier dental and vision coverage

Carrot Fertility Pro

12 weeks of paid parental leave

Unlimited PTO

401(k) through Vestwell

Paid relocation support

Fully equipped workspace

Team perks

Job summary

Confido seeks a Senior Applied AI/ML Engineer to own the core AI behind the platform. You will work with a large, messy dataset across many sources to build robust, production-grade AI models. Your scope includes research, prototyping, deployment, and continuous evaluation to ensure reliability.

Based in New York City with relocation support, you’ll drive end-to-end AI solutions spanning document understanding, forecasting, and agentic workflows, shaping product outcomes and the company’s future.

Qualifications

• 3+ years of applied AI/ML with production-grade systems
• Experience building evaluation and monitoring for AI systems
• Strong product sense: translate AI capability into outcomes
• Masters degree in STEM required

Responsibilities

• Build LLM-based AI systems that turn complex financial documents into clean, typed data
• Design agentic workflows with evaluation harnesses and guardrails for production use
• Develop and validate demand forecasting across thousands of time-series with rolling-origin backtesting
• Wrangle real-world messy data: baselining, outlier detection, entity reconciliation
• Define and measure success with eval datasets, benchmarks, and monitoring

Skills

Applied AI/ML

Time-series forecasting

LLM / agentic systems

Data engineering

Model evaluation

Education

Masters degree in STEM

Tools

Prophet

ARIMA

Gradient boosting

RAG / Retrieval systems

Job description

Confido is the AI infrastructure powering modern CPG — the platform that 200+ brands like OLIPOP, Simple Mills, Dr. Squatch, and Tropicana use to run everything from deductions to production planning. Finance, accounting, sales, and operations, unified in one system for the first time.

We're growing 5x year over year with a small team in New York City; the people who join now will shape the product, the culture, and the company itself.

If you want your work on shelves everywhere — and outsized ownership while you build — we'd love to meet you.

The Role

Build the core AI behind Confido — and get your hands on an unusually rich, messy dataset: hundreds of thousands of documents across dozens of sources and hundreds of layouts and contexts, much of it beyond what any system reads well today.

As a Senior Applied AI / ML Engineer, you'll own AI problems end to end — research, prototyping, production, and the evaluation that keeps probabilistic systems reliable — across document understanding, forecasting, and agentic workflows.

Location: New York, NY (Relocation supported)

What you’ll do

• Build LLM systems that turn complex, inconsistent financial documents into clean, typed, validated data — the backbone the rest of the platform runs on

• Design agentic workflows that retrieve and reason over fragmented enterprise systems, with the eval harnesses and guardrails to run them in production

• Build and improve demand forecasting across thousands of intermittent series — classical time-series and gradient-boosted models, with rolling-origin backtesting and best-fit selection

• Wrangle messy, real-world data: baselining, outlier and anomaly detection, entity reconciliation, and ingestion across heterogeneous sources

• Own how we measure success — eval datasets, benchmarks, and monitoring for systems with no single "correct" answer

What we're looking for

Required

• 3+ years of applied AI / ML, with systems you've taken to production (not just prototypes)

• Depth in at least one, and working fluency across several, of: time-series / forecasting and statistical modeling; LLM and agentic systems; large-scale messy-data engineering

• You build evaluation and monitoring as a matter of course — and know which metric to trust, and how to avoid leakage and train/serve skew

• Strong product sense: you turn AI capability into real outcomes, and know when a simpler approach wins

• Masters degree in STEM

Nice to have

• Demand forecasting / time-series (Prophet, ARIMA-family, gradient-boosted)

• Agentic workflows, RAG, or retrieval systems in production

• Document understanding / information extraction from unstructured sources

• Startup experience or comfort in fast-moving environments

Perks + Benefits

• Equity — own a meaningful piece of the company you’re helping build

• Fully paid health coverage through Aetna — we cover 100% of employee premiums

• Top-tier dental and vision coverage through Guardian

• Carrot Fertility Pro — comprehensive fertility and family-forming support

• 12 weeks of paid parental leave

• Unlimited PTO — plus regular 4-day holiday weekends we actually take

• 401(k) through Vestwell

• Paid relocation support — we’ll help you make the move to NYC

• Fully equipped workspace from day one — laptop, monitor, keyboard, and a $200 stipend to personalize your setup

• Team perks — catered Friday lunches, team dinners, and unlimited coffee + snacks featuring products from the brands we work with

Confido provides equal employment opportunities to all employees and applicants for employment and prohibits discrimination and harassment of any type without regard to race, color, religion, age, sex, national origin, disability status, genetics, protected veteran status, sexual orientation, gender identity or expression, or any other characteristic protected by federal, state or local laws.