Senior AI/ML Engineer

Founding AI/ML Engineer — Build AI Broker

At AI Broker, we are not just adding AI features—we are building a new way for people to work with financial intelligence, automation, and better decision-making.

Our goal is to create a platform that helps users analyze opportunities, discover useful insights, automate workflows, and make smarter decisions across investing, brokerage, and business operations. AI sits at the center of that experience: helping users understand complex data, interact naturally with information, and execute high-value workflows faster.

We are looking for a Founding AI/ML Engineer to help make that vision real.

This is a founder-stage opportunity for someone who wants genuine ownership, technical influence, and the chance to build a company from the ground up—not simply implement features on someone else’s roadmap.

The Founder Offer

Current Compensation: 10% Founder Equity

This role begins as an equity-only founding role. The selected Founding AI/ML Engineer will receive 10% equity ownership in AI Broker, subject to a formal written founder agreement, company formation documents, customary vesting terms, and intellectual-property assignment.

The equity grant is intended to reflect that this is not a conventional early employee position. You would be joining at a stage where your technical work, product judgment, execution speed, and ownership can materially shape the company’s future.

The founder agreement will clearly document:

• Equity ownership and capitalization treatment
• Vesting schedule and any applicable cliff
• Founder responsibilities and expected commitment
• Intellectual-property assignment and confidentiality
• Decision-making rights and governance expectations
• What happens if a founder leaves or materially changes involvement
• The process for future compensation, fundraising, and dilution

This is a calculated, high-upside opportunity to build something valuable together—not a traditional salaried role with equity attached.

Target Post-Funding Compensation: Approximately $150,000 Annually

AI Broker’s intention is to transition this role to paid founder compensation once the company has secured sufficient financing and operating runway.

If AI Broker is accepted into an accelerator and/or raises capital sufficient to support founder salaries, the company’s target is to provide this Founding AI/ML Engineer with compensation of approximately $150,000 per year, subject to:

• Accelerator acceptance, investment, or external fundraising
• Available company cash, runway, and budget
• The company’s stage, traction, and hiring plan
• Formal approval by the company and its governing body
• Continued active involvement and performance in the founding role

This is a target compensation plan, not a guarantee of future payment before capital is raised or revenue supports it. The company will communicate transparently about fundraising, runway, milestones, and the timeline for moving from equity-only work to paid founder compensation.

Build as an Owner

Most engineers join after the largest product, architecture, and business decisions have been made. They receive tickets and contribute to a limited part of a larger machine.

At AI Broker, you would help define the machine.

You will have a direct voice in:

• The AI product strategy and technical roadmap
• The architecture behind AI-powered financial intelligence and automation
• The model, data, evaluation, and deployment stack
• What user problems are worth solving first
• Product quality, security, reliability, and scalability standards
• How AI Broker hires and grows its technical organization

You are not joining to add “AI features.” You are joining to help build an AI-native company.

Early Technical Work Creates Leverage

A strong founding AI/ML engineer can fundamentally change a startup’s direction:

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High-leverage AI systems
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More useful product experiences
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Better decisions and workflow automation for users
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User adoption, retention, and differentiation
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Revenue, funding, and company value
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Meaningful founder upside
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The work you do early can have a disproportionate impact on the product, the company, and the value of your equity.

Shape a Product From Zero to One

This is an opportunity to build real systems that users depend on—from the first prototype through production scale.

You will help create a product you can credibly say you helped found:

> “I built the AI foundation, helped define the product, and turned an early idea into a company.”

What You’ll Build

As a Founding AI/ML Engineer, you will help build the AI foundation behind AI Broker’s products and internal systems.

Your work may include:

• Partnering with product, design, and engineering to identify high-impact AI/ML opportunities
• Building AI systems that feel simple to users while solving difficult problems underneath
• Developing recommendations, natural-language interfaces, agentic workflows, research tools, and decision-support systems
• Creating infrastructure for data ingestion, evaluation, model deployment, monitoring, and iteration
• Designing AI experiences that make financial and business data easier to understand and act on
• Prototyping quickly, then productionizing the systems that prove valuable
• Helping define the long-term AI architecture, model strategy, and technical direction of AI Broker
• Solving novel problems at the intersection of AI, finance, automation, product design, and user trust

What You Bring

We are looking for someone with strong technical judgment and a founder mindset.

You may be a strong fit if you have:

• Deep experience building and deploying production-grade AI/ML systems
• Strong knowledge of machine learning, deep learning, LLMs, and applied AI
• Experience across the full ML lifecycle: data curation, training or adaptation, evaluation, deployment, observability, and continuous improvement
• A track record of shipping challenging systems in recommendations, search, language systems, automation, analytics, or decision support
• Experience adapting, fine-tuning, evaluating, or orchestrating foundation models, language models, or multimodal systems
• The ability to move from ambiguous product ideas to working, user-facing systems
• Comfort making technical tradeoffs among quality, speed, reliability, latency, privacy, and cost
• High ownership, direct communication, and the ability to work effectively in an early-stage environment

A degree in Computer Science, Engineering, Mathematics, or a related field is welcome, but demonstrated technical ability and execution matter more than credentials.

Bonus Points

• You have built agents that can plan, retrieve context, use tools, and complete multi-step workflows
• You have worked with financial products, market data, brokerage workflows, or decision-support systems
• You understand cloud infrastructure such as AWS, GCP, Azure, Cloudflare, or comparable platforms
• You have built startup products from zero to one
• You have experience with data-intensive systems, real-time pipelines, evaluation frameworks, or AI safety and reliability practices
• You care about building AI systems users can understand, trust, and use responsibly

How We’ll Work

We want the founder relationship to be ambitious, transparent, and fair.

• Formal founder agreement: Ownership, vesting, IP, responsibilities, and departure terms will be documented.
• 10% founder equity: The role begins with a 10% ownership grant, subject to the final founder agreement and customary vesting.
• Equity-only at the outset: Until AI Broker has sufficient revenue or external funding, this is not a salaried role.
• Target of approximately $150,000 after funding: If AI Broker is accepted into an accelerator and/or raises sufficient capital, the target salary for this role is approximately $150,000 annually, subject to company runway and formal approval.
• Shared product ownership: Founders contribute beyond their narrow function and care about company outcomes.
• Clear early milestones: We align on the MVP, launch goals, user feedback loops, traction targets, and fundraising readiness.
• Technical autonomy: You will have meaningful authority over the AI/ML systems you build.
• Honest communication: We will discuss progress, risks, disagreements, runway, priorities, and compensation timing directly.

The Ask

Join AI Broker as a Founding AI/ML Engineer and help create the intelligence layer behind the company.

In return, you will receive 10% founder equity, subject to a formal written founder agreement and customary vesting terms. You will have meaningful ownership, technical influence, and the opportunity to share in the long-term value created by the founding team.

The role is equity-only initially. If AI Broker is accepted into an accelerator and/or raises sufficient funding, the company intends to transition the role to compensation targeted at approximately $150,000 per year, subject to funding, runway, company approval, and the terms of the final founder agreement.

We are not looking for someone to complete a backlog.
We are looking for someone to help build the company.