Senior Applied AI Engineer

About The Role

Taktile is redefining how financial institutions use AI to make critical decisions, and we're growing fast. As an Applied AI Engineer, you'll be at the heart of that transformation, building advanced agentic products that solve high-value problems. You will act as a product owner for the AI agents you create, turning them into reusable applications that solve concrete customer problems at scale in the financial crime or credit risk space.

If you're passionate about applying AI to real-world financial decisioning, stay current on advances in generative AI, and bring a solid foundation in Python, SQL, and working with APIs, you'll thrive here.

What You'll Do as an Sr. Applied AI Engineer

• Build Reusable AI Products: Act as the product owner for your application area. Design, develop, and deploy robust, repeatable Generative AI agents that serve as configurable solutions for our customers.

• Drive Scalable Value: Partner with Solution and Forward Deployed Engineers during critical sales and implementation projects to deeply understand customer needs. Develop standard templates and reusable components that reduce time-to-activation and solve core challenges.

• Product Vision and Iteration: Synthesize customer feedback into a clear vision for your agents. Iterate on your solutions to solve concrete use cases at scale, treating every agent as a product itself.

• Collaborate with Core Product: Work closely with the core product team to prioritize platform features that unblock application development, and act as an expert user consultant during the development of new features.

About You

• You bring 3-6 years of data science, software engineering, consulting, or product management experience that includes customer-facing work or product ownership.

• You have a strong technical or quantitative background, preferably in fields such as Computer Science, Mathematics, Software Engineering, Physics, Data Science, or Economics.

• You are eager to dive into the domain of our customers, including credit underwriting, financial risk assessment, and financial crime detection.

• You write clean, maintainable Python and SQL, and have a good understanding of REST APIs.

• You excel at breaking down complex problems and abstracting them into scalable, reusable solutions.

• You build strong relationships with both technical and business stakeholders at all levels, driven by a product-centric mindset to understand their needs and solve their challenges at scale.

• You are open to a hybrid work model and can work from our NYC office at least three days per week.

Ideal Qualifications (but not required)

• You have experience in building AI applications within financial services.

• You have experience in applying and optimizing statistical and machine learning models to solve business problems.

• You have experience with at least one of the major cloud platforms (AWS, Azure, GCP).

What We Offer

• Work with colleagues that lift you up, challenge you, celebrate you and help you grow. We come from many different backgrounds, but what we have in common is the desire to operate at the very top of our fields. If you are similarly capable, caring, and driven, you'll find yourself at home here.

• Make an impact and meaningfully shape an early-stage company.

• Experience a truly flat hierarchy and communicate directly with founding team members. Having an opinion and voicing your ideas is not only welcome but encouraged, especially when they challenge the status quo.

• Learn from experienced mentors and achieve tremendous personal and professional growth. Get to know and leverage our network of leading tech investors and advisors around the globe.

• Receive a top-of-market equity and cash compensation package.

• Get access to a self-development budget you can use to e.g. attend conferences, buy books or take classes.

• Use the equipment of your choice including meaningful home office set-up.

Our Stance

• We're eager to meet talented and driven candidates regardless of whether they tick all the boxes. We're looking for someone who will add to our culture, not just fit within it. We strongly encourage individuals from groups traditionally underestimated and underrepresented in tech to apply.

• We seek to actively recognize and combat racism, sexism, ableism and ageism. We embrace and support all gender identities and expressions, and celebrate love in its many forms. We won't inquire about how you identify or if you've experienced discrimination, but if you want to tell your story, we are all ears.

About Us

Taktile helps financial institutions make smarter, safer decisions with the power of AI. Our software gives teams the tools to automate complex decisions — like who to onboard, how to underwrite, or when to flag suspicious activity — with full visibility and control.

By combining AI with a rich ecosystem of financial data, Taktile enables companies to adapt their decision-making in real time as markets, customer behavior, and risks evolve.

Our mission is to build the world’s leading platform for automated decision-making in financial services — setting the standard for how AI is applied responsibly and effectively in this industry.

We were founded by machine learning and data science experts with deep experience in financial services. Today, our team works across Berlin, London, and New York, bringing together engineers, entrepreneurs, and researchers from companies like Google, Amazon, and Meta, as well as fast-growing startups and enterprise leaders.

Backed by top investors including Y Combinator, Index Ventures, Balderton Capital, and Tiger Global, along with the founders of Looker, GitHub, Mulesoft, Datadog, and UiPath - we’re building a world-class organization across all functions and levels to power the next generation of AI-driven decision-making in financial services.