[Hiring] Senior AI Engineer @Finom

Role Description

We are looking for a Senior AI Engineer to design, build, and operate AI systems that solve real business problems across Finom. This role is for someone who can move comfortably from prototype to production: shaping the solution, building the system, measuring quality, and improving it over time. You will work on high-impact initiatives across:

• Onboarding
• Customer support
• AI accounting
• Fraud and risk workflows
• Document understanding
• Internal automation
• Agentic systems used by multiple teams

This is not a pure research role. It is a hands-on engineering role focused on delivering production-grade AI capabilities that create clear value for customers and the business.

What You Will Be Doing

• Build and ship AI-powered product and internal solutions using LLMs, RAG, tool calling, workflows, and agentic patterns
• Own AI systems end-to-end: problem framing, architecture, implementation, evaluation, deployment, monitoring, and iteration
• Partner closely with solution managers, domain teams, and engineers to integrate AI into real workflows rather than isolated demos
• Design quality and evaluation frameworks for AI systems, including offline evals, online signals, failure analysis, and continuous improvement loops
• Develop scalable and reliable inference pipelines with strong attention to latency, cost, security, and observability
• Work on use cases such as onboarding, customer care, transaction and document classification, knowledge assistants, fraud detection, and operational automation
• Contribute to AI platform and tooling decisions that improve reuse, speed, and consistency across teams
• Challenge assumptions, propose better approaches, and help shape the roadmap rather than only execute tickets
• Experiment boldly, learn quickly from failures, and turn insights into stronger systems and better practices

What Success Looks Like

In your first 6 to 12 months, you will:

• Become fully embedded in the team and business domains you support
• Deliver at least one significant AI capability into production
• Generate visible impact through revenue uplift, cost savings, productivity gains, or risk reduction
• Raise the technical bar for how Finom builds, evaluates, and operates AI systems
• Help other teams adopt AI more effectively through strong engineering practice and pragmatic guidance

Qualifications

• A strong software engineer with deep Python experience and a track record of shipping production systems
• Comfortable across the full lifecycle: prompting, retrieval, experimentation, evaluation, deployment, and production support
• Strong at turning ambiguous business problems into robust technical solutions
• Product-minded and focused on real user outcomes, not just model outputs
• Autonomous, pragmatic, and able to keep momentum without heavy supervision
• Clear in communication and comfortable working across functions
• Curious, proactive, low-ego, and biased toward action
• Someone who actively keeps up with the fast-moving AI landscape and can separate hype from what is actually useful

Requirements

• Proven experience building and deploying AI systems in production
• Strong Python and software engineering fundamentals
• Hands-on experience with LLM applications, including some of: RAG, tool use, agents, prompt engineering, evals, structured outputs, guardrails, or fine-tuning
• Experience integrating AI systems into backend or product workflows
• Ability to design meaningful evaluation, monitoring, and continuous improvement loops
• Experience with cloud infrastructure and containerized deployments
• Strong ownership mindset and ability to work through ambiguity
• Actively experiments with new AI models, tools, and agentic patterns, and can evaluate which approaches are worth productionizing
• Strong grasp of the fast-moving AI landscape, with the ability to turn relevant advances into practical product and engineering decisions
• Fluent English

Nice-to-Haves

• Experience in fintech, financial services, risk, compliance, or operations-heavy environments
• Experience with applied ML beyond LLMs, such as classification, anomaly detection, ranking, or document intelligence
• Experience with vector databases, knowledge systems, and retrieval infrastructure
• Experience with model benchmarking, experimentation frameworks, and cost or latency optimization at scale
• Background in startups or as a founder
• Contributions to open-source or visible side projects in AI

What You Will Get In Return

• Make a genuine impact on the product
• Join our upward trajectory, and grow with us. We provide the resources and opportunities for continuous personal and professional development, empowering you to make a genuine impact on our evolving product.
• Work in the EU: Enjoy the flexibility of traveling and working remotely or in a hybrid model across Europe.
• Become a stock options holder: Unlock your inner entrepreneur and align your aspirations with ours through our Stock Options Program.
• Receive unwavering support and care: Finom stands by you at every step, embodying our commitment to your well-being and success.
• Work & Swim program: Spend one month in a comfortable corporate apartment in enchanting Cyprus.

Equal Opportunity Statement

At Finom, we're an equal opportunity employer and value diversity at our company. We embrace diversity and invite applications from all walks of life.