goodfin

Building the next generation of wealth

AI Engineer

$130K - $180K0.10% - 0.50%0San Francisco, CA, US Job type Full-time Role Engineering, Full stack Experience 3+ years Visa US citizen/visa only Skills Machine Learning

About the role

About Goodfin

Goodfin is an AI-native investment platform giving accredited investors access to pre-IPO and alternative assets 6 with intelligent systems that dont just surface data, but reason, act, and iterate. Were building agentic AI that can analyze complex financial inputs, orchestrate multi-step workflows, and continuously improve through feedback. This is not a research lab or a slow enterprise environment. We move fast, ship constantly, and expect engineers to think like builders and product owners.

Role Overview

As an AI Engineer, youll help build and ship agentic AI systems that sit at the core of the Goodfin product. You wont be handed perfectly scoped tickets 6 youll help define what should be built, how it should behave, and why it matters to users. This role is for engineers who:

• Care deeply about product outcomes, not just models
• Take ownership end-to-end
• Thrive in high-expectation, high-autonomy environments
• Want to work on AI systems that actually run in production and make decisions.

Youll work closely with our entire team, but youre expected to operate independently, move fast, and push ideas forward. Youll be a key contributor to building robust AI systems, RAG workflows, and scalable backend services that make Goodfins intelligent features reliable and impactful in real-world settings.

What Youll Do

• Build and iterate on agentic AI workflows that reason across data, tools, and actions.
• Design and implement LLM-powered systems that go beyond single prompts (multi-step planning, tool use, memory, feedback loops).
• Ship production-grade AI features 6 not demos 6 that real users rely on.
• Own meaningful parts of the product lifecycle: idea  design  build  launch  iterate.
• Partner directly with product and design to shape how AI features behave in the real world.
• Implement and improve RAG pipelines, evaluations, and reliability mechanisms.
• Monitor live AI systems, debug failures, and continuously raise quality.
• Move quickly with imperfect information 6 making good tradeoffs instead of waiting for perfect specs.
• Stay current with recent AI/ML tools and frameworks 6 particularly around LLM ecosystems and agent frameworks.

Who You Are

Required Qualifications

• 3 or more years of professional experience in software or AI engineering.
• Strong hands-on coding experience in Python and backend systems.
• Practical familiarity with modern AI/ML tools — working with LLM APIs (e.g., OpenAI, Claude) and ML libraries.
• Experience integrating models or AI systems into production applications.
• Experience with vector stores, indexing or retrieval systems.
• Familiarity with frameworks like LangChain AutoGen or similar agent tools.
• Exposure to cloud environments (AWS GCP) and CI/CD pipelines.
• Comfortable writing maintainable scalable code and collaborating with backend full-stack engineers.
• Strong communication skills and team mindset.

Preferred (Nice-to-Have)

• Experience with evaluation tooling or building quality metrics for generative systems.
• Enjoy writing or creating content around AI what we are building at Goodfin.
• Love for consumer or investing apps.
• Previous experience working at a fintech or in another regulated domain.

Why Join Goodfin

• Work on real AI engineering problems — not research prototypes — that impact a live fintech product.
• Build with a small mission-driven team with direct access to founders.
• Competitive compensation with significant equity participation in a fast-growing early-stage startup.

About goodfin

GoodFin is reimagining private wealth in the era of AI Our mission is to empower a new generation to build wealth starting with their investments in alternative assets. Our AI-native platform combines a design-forward experience with a backend powered by a system of intelligent agents We are building a future where AI unlocks financial hyperpersonalization automation and optimization for sophisticated financial products which are typically gated by advisors and reserved for very wealthy clients. This highly fragmented $1 .25T global services market will undergo a sea change in the coming years as trillions pass in the largest intergenerational wealth transfer to date. in a world where most financial decisions will become automated we believe the next category-defining wealth company will still be human-driven at its core powered by a high-value community like our membership base of professionals founders investors . the next generation financial giant will be an AI-native platform that makes wealth creation seamless personalized social That s what we re building . w e are a fast-growing seed-stage startup backed by Y Combinator Goodwater Capital Phoenix Fund Perpetua Investment Group angel investors from leading companies across tech finance .