Goliath Partners · 22 hours ago
Artificial Intelligence Engineer
NYC Metro Area
Full-time
Onsite
Entry, Mid Level
$200K/yr - $300K/yr
2+ years expGoliath Partners is a fast-growing NYC startup building an agentic AI platform for investment banks and private equity firms. They are seeking a Founding AI Engineer to lead the integration and optimization of AI models into production systems and design multimodal workflows across financial data.
Staffing & Recruiting
Hiring Manager
Liz Lahue
Responsibilities
Lead integration and optimization of LLMs, embedding models, and semantic retrieval into production systems
Design and deploy multimodal retrieval + agentic workflows across unstructured and structured financial data
Push forward agentic architectures : composability, function calling, modular orchestration
Improve retrieval quality and AI outputs using real customer feedback loops
Prototype and ship new AI capabilities used by major financial institutions
Work closely with engineering, product, and customer teams to translate AI capability into business impact
Qualification
Required
2+ years deploying ML systems in production
Experience integrating closed-source LLM APIs and fine-tuning open-source models
Hands-on with embeddings + vector DBs (Pinecone, Weaviate, FAISS, Chroma, PGVector, etc.)
Experience building semantic retrieval across mixed data types
Strong Python (Hugging Face, PyTorch/TensorFlow, LangChain, etc.)
Comfortable with ambiguity and owning projects end-to-end
Strong communicator
Preferred
Experience with agentic systems, function calling, orchestration frameworks
Familiarity with financial datasets and retrieval challenges
Performance tuning/scalability for AI retrieval
Startup or entrepreneurial background
Interest in applying generative AI to complex business workflows
Benefits
Meaningful equity
Company
Goliath Partners
Driving innovative talent solutions within trading & financial technology that delivers specialized C++ professionals.
2-10 employees
Funding
Current Stage
Early StageCompany data provided by crunchbase