Senior Software Engineer, AI/ML

Datalign Advisory Inc.; Cambridge (MA); Hybrid; USD 120,000 - 160,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Competitive compensation with equity

Flexible hybrid work environment

Direct impact on financial guidance

Job summary

Datalign Advisory Inc. is seeking a Senior Software Engineer with AI/ML expertise to join their team in Cambridge, Massachusetts. The role involves leading the design and development of AI systems for financial advisors. Candidates should have 7+ years of experience, strong Python skills, and a background in building scalable AI applications. This position offers a hybrid work environment, competitive compensation, and a chance to make a direct impact in the fintech industry.

Qualifications

• 7+ years of software engineering experience including AI/ML systems.
• Proven ability to lead technical projects with high autonomy.
• Strong experience in Python and cloud infrastructure.

Responsibilities

• Lead the design and implementation of AI/ML systems.
• Collaborate with teams to turn business problems into AI capabilities.
• Build and scale LLM systems including retrieval-augmented generation.

Skills

Software engineering

AI/ML expertise

Python

Distributed systems

Communication

Cloud infrastructure (AWS preferred)

Education

Bachelor’s degree in Computer Science or related field

Master’s preferred

Tools

TypeScript

Go

Job description

About Datalign

Datalign Advisory is a Cambridge-based fintech building the comprehensive AI-native platform for how Americans find, evaluate, and work with financial advisors — and how advisors grow. Our platform spans five products: curated lead generation, GEOsAI geographic intelligence, RelationshipAI prospect insights, Halo consumer engagement, and a customizable agentic AI layer for advisory firms.

Most companies in this space pick one lane — they’re a matching platform, or a CRM enrichment vendor, or a scheduling tool. We’re building the integrated infrastructure layer underneath all of it, powered by a proprietary knowledge graph of 200M+ Americans.

We’ve served 100,000+ consumers, referred $80B+ in assets to 13,000+ advisors, won Financial Advisory Platform of the Year at the 2026 FinTech Breakthrough Awards, and recently opened our compliance-by-design agentic AI platform to advisory firms across the industry. We’re small, we move fast, and the problem space is genuinely hard.

Please note:We are only accepting applications from candidates in the Greater Boston area, as this is a hybrid role with 4 days a week in office.

The Role

We're looking for Senior Software Engineers with deep AI/ML expertise to join a small, high-impact engineering team. This is a hands‑on technical leadership role. You'll architect and build the AI systems that power our advisor‑facing and consumer‑facing products, working directly with the CTO and product leads to bring ambitious ideas from whiteboard to production.

If you're energized by real‑world AI problems, thrive in a startup‑pace environment, and want to see your work directly shape outcomes for financial advisors and the clients they serve, then this is your role.

What You’ll Do

• Set Direction: Lead the design, architecture, and implementation of AI/ML systems powering Datalign’s core products, including Halo (our agentic AI framework) and RelationshipAI
• Collaborate: Work closely with product, design, and data teams to turn ambiguous business problems into measurable, shippable AI capabilities
• Deliver: Build and scale LLM systems including retrieval‑augmented generation (RAG), tool use/function calling, multi‑agent orchestration, and real‑time inference services
• Keep It Secure: Implement reliability, safety, and security guardrails for AI products, including PII handling/redaction, access controls, prompt‑injection defenses, auditability, and pragmatic human‑in‑the‑loop workflows where needed
• Innovation: Contribute to evolution of our engineering practice with the rapid adoption of AI tools in software development
• Culture: Mentor other engineers and help build a culture of technical excellence, curiosity, and rapid execution

What You Bring

Required

• 7+ years of software engineering experience, including experience building and operating production AI/ML or LLM‑powered systems
• Proven ability to lead technical projects end‑to‑end with high autonomy and low oversight
• Bachelor’s degree in Computer Science or a related field. Masters preferred
• Strong experience working in Python. Additional experience with TypeScript and/or Go is a plus
• Hands‑on experience shipping LLM applications in production (e.g., RAG, tool use/function calling, agentic workflows, fine‑tuning/LoRA where appropriate)
• Strong foundation in distributed systems and cloud infrastructure (AWS preferred), including building scalable inference/services and production observability (logs, metrics, traces)
• Strong communication and product sense: you can explain tradeoffs (quality vs latency vs cost vs risk) and align technical work to business goals

Preferred

• Experience in fintech, wealth management, or other regulated environments; comfort partnering with compliance/legal on data and AI controls
• Track record of shipping software in fast‑moving, resource‑constrained startup environments with high ownership
• Experience with AI security/safety practices: prompt‑injection resistance, data exfiltration prevention, policy enforcement, and audit logging
• Familiarity with building systems that have high‑signal feedback loops from user behavior

Why Datalign

• Direct impact — your work will be seen and felt by advisors and clients from day one
• Seat at the table — small team means your voice and decisions really matter
• Mission‑driven — we're democratizing access to quality financial guidance
• Competitive compensation with equity — we're building something that will be worth owning a piece of
• Flexible hybrid environment in Kendall Square, one of the world's great innovation hubs
• Backed and supported by the Link Ventures ecosystem