Financial Systems Engineer: AI-Driven Finance & Risk

sun west direct; Cerritos, Northern (CA, KY); Hybrid; USD 120,000 - 180,000; Full time

Job summary

Sun West Mortgage Company, with AngelAi, seeks a Financial Systems Engineer to own a critical financial infrastructure segment and build forward-looking risk models. The role combines financial engineering with operational optimization in a highly regulated fintech environment.

Ideal candidates have a finance-focused degree and strong ability to translate contracts into system logic, driving efficiency and predictive insights across the Sun West platform.

Qualifications

• Bachelor's degree in Finance, Accounting, Economics, or a related quantitative discipline.
• Strong command of accounting fundamentals and financial statement analysis.
• The rare ability to read, interpret, and translate legal/contractual documents into financial system logic.
• A Financial Engineering Mindset—you see finance as a system to be optimized and performance-tuned.
• High intellectual curiosity and genuine passion for understanding how financial systems actually operate.
• Comfort owning ambiguity and navigating complex, high-stakes financial structures.
• Disciplined, detail-oriented, and capable of independent leadership.
• Mortgage, fintech, or financial services experience is a plus, but your raw technical rigor and drive are mandatory.

Responsibilities

• Own: A defined, critical section of the company's financial infrastructure.
• Engineer: Build, stress-test, and deploy forward-looking models to manage risk and predict financial outcomes.
• Optimize: Actively control how capital, risk, and operational costs move through the business.
• You will be expected to think like a systems engineer, not an accountant producing historical summaries.

Skills

Financial modeling

Risk management

Quantitative analysis

Financial engineering

Contract interpretation

Regulatory knowledge

Leadership

Education

Bachelor's degree in Finance, Accounting, Economics, or related quantitative discipline

Job description

Sun West Mortgage Company, with AngelAi, seeks a Financial Systems Engineer to own a critical financial infrastructure segment and build forward-looking risk models. The role combines financial engineering with operational optimization in a highly regulated fintech environment.

Ideal candidates have a finance-focused degree and strong ability to translate contracts into system logic, driving efficiency and predictive insights across the Sun West platform.