Senior Applied AI/ML Engineer

Confido; New York (NY); On-site; USD 140,000 - 210,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Equity

Health coverage (fully paid)

Dental and vision

12 weeks paid parental leave

Unlimited PTO

401(k)

Paid relocation

Full desk setup + $200 stipend

Catered Friday lunches

Team dinners + snacks

Job summary

Confido is seeking a Senior Applied AI / ML Engineer to own AI problems end to end, from research to production and evaluation. You will work on document understanding, forecasting, and agentic workflows with a richly varied dataset and multi-source inputs.

The role is based in New York, NY with relocation support. You will build LLM systems, design retrieval-driven processes, and lead the measurement and monitoring of model performance in production to ensure robust, scalable outcomes.

Qualifications

• 5+ 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.

Responsibilities

• Build LLM systems that turn complex, inconsistent financial documents into clean, typed, validated data.
• Design agentic workflows that retrieve and reason over fragmented enterprise systems, with eval harnesses and guardrails in production.
• Build and improve demand forecasting across thousands of intermittent series with rolling-origin backtesting and best-fit selection.
• Wrangle messy, real-world data: baselining, outlier 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.

Skills

Applied AI/ML in production

Time-series forecasting

LLM / agentic systems

Large-scale data engineering

Evaluation & monitoring

Product-minded AI outcomes

Tools

Prophet

ARIMA-family

Gradient-boosted models

RAG / retrieval systems

Job description

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

• 5+ 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

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 piece of what you're building
• Fully paid health coverage with Aetna (we cover 100% of premiums)
• Top-tier dental and vision through Guardian
• 12 weeks paid parental leave
• Unlimited PTO, plus regular 4-day holiday weekends we actually take
• 401(k) through Vestwell
• Paid relocation — we'll get you here
• Full desk setup on day one (laptop, monitor, keyboard) + a $200 stipend to make it yours
• Catered Friday lunches, team dinners on us, and unlimited coffee + snacks featuring our own brands

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.