Founding AI Engineer - Agentic Systems | £120-150k + Equity | London
Transform Financial Services with Cutting-Edge AI
Avanti Recruitment is partnering with an ambitious Series A fintech startup that's revolutionizing how financial institutions operate. Our client has secured £6M+ from a top-tier VC and is building the future of AI-powered business process automation.
The Opportunity
Join as a founding team member and help build world-class AI agents that transform manual, weeks-long financial processes into intelligent, automated workflows. You'll be developing sophisticated multi-agent systems from entry-level automation to expert-level autonomous decision-making.
You'll be architecting the cognitive intelligence behind agent systems that operate in highly regulated environments, processing complex financial data and making critical business decisions.
What You'll Build
- Advanced agentic architectures with orchestrator-managed specialized sub-agents
- Machine learning algorithms that increase agent autonomy and reduce human input
- Collaborative learning systems where agents share knowledge and improve collectively
- Fine-tuned models optimized for complex financial workflows
- Event-driven distributed systems handling sensitive data at enterprise scale
- AI/ML: Multi-agent frameworks, fine-tuning, reinforcement learning, advanced RAG
- Platform: AWS serverless, event-driven architecture, microservices
- Languages: Python, with modern ML libraries (PyTorch, TensorFlow)
- 5+ years developing AI/ML systems beyond basic integration
- Deep understanding of agent architectures and distributed AI systems
- Computer science fundamentals - algorithms, system design, software engineering
- Startup mindset - comfortable with rapid iteration and technical trade-offs
