Founding AI Engineer - Production Finance Platform (Equity)

Chronic Capital; Boston (MA); On-site; USD 180,000 - 320,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Equity participation

Health insurance

Job summary

Chronic Capital, a Boston-based investment bank, seeks its founding technical hire to own architecture and hands-on build of internal AI systems. You’ll work directly with the Managing Director, setting technical direction from day one with a live deal flow to build against.

You’ll own the platform, collaborating across teams, with equity participation and a blank-slate build approach in a fast-moving financial services environment.

Qualifications

• Proven track record shipping production AI applications.
• Strong Python and modern software engineering practices.
• Hands-on experience with LLM APIs, tool calling, and agent orchestration.
• Experience with RAG, embeddings, vector databases, and semantic search.
• API design, backend infrastructure, databases, and data pipelines.
• Integrating enterprise applications via APIs and third-party connectors.
• Cloud infrastructure (AWS, Azure, or GCP).
• Authentication, authorization, encryption, and enterprise security.
• Ability to own architectural decisions end-to-end.

Responsibilities

• Design and build production AI systems from architecture through deployment and iteration.
• Create agentic workflows with human review where needed.
• Integrate internal apps and third-party data sources via APIs and connectors.
• Build retrieval and search across structured and unstructured firm data.
• Deliver internal tools used by non-technical users daily.
• Implement security, access controls, audit logging, and governance for a regulated firm.
• Own model, infrastructure, and build-vs-buy decisions and roadmap.

Skills

Python

LLM APIs

Agent orchestration

RAG architectures

Embeddings

Vector databases

Semantic search

API design

Backend infrastructure

Data pipelines

Cloud infrastructure

Security

Authentication / encryption

Independent architectural ownership

Tools

AWS

Azure

GCP

Job description

Chronic Capital, a Boston-based investment bank, seeks its founding technical hire to own architecture and hands-on build of internal AI systems. You’ll work directly with the Managing Director, setting technical direction from day one with a live deal flow to build against.

You’ll own the platform, collaborating across teams, with equity participation and a blank-slate build approach in a fast-moving financial services environment.