Full-Time
Forward Deployed Engineer
Bretton AI
51-200 employees
AI-driven SaaS for financial crime compliance
Compensation Overview
$150k - $200k/yr
San Francisco, CA, USA
In Person
Onsite travel to customer sites required.
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- 2+ years of experience as a software engineer or similar
- Strong backend or data engineering background
- Experience with Python, APIs, data pipelines, and cloud infrastructure
- Actively building with LLMs and modern AI systems is a must
- Deploy Bretton's AI agents at banks, fintechs, and payments companies, navigating the security and compliance requirements that come with regulated environments
- Travel onsite to work through last-mile connectivity challenges, from wiring up core banking integrations to resolving edge cases that only surface in live production
- Partner with BSA officers, AML analysts, and risk teams to translate their workflows and regulatory requirements into agent behavior that reflects how their business actually works
- Build the connectors, configuration tools, and internal frameworks that turn one-off customer solutions into repeatable platform capabilities
- Guide customers from demo through go-live as a trusted technical advisor, helping them resolve issues quickly and expand the value they get from Bretton
- Work cross-functionally with engineering, product, and GTM to remove blockers and do whatever it takes to make customers successful
- Diagnose and resolve issues in real deployments by reproducing problems and collaborating with the engineering team to fix them
- Translate customer usage into product insights by sharing customer needs with engineering and product teams and identifying opportunities to turn recurring solutions into product features
- Previous experience in a customer-facing technical role
- Excellent communication skills
- Ability to explain AI systems to non-technical stakeholders
- Strong debugging and problem-solving mindset
- Comfort working with enterprise customers
- Experience with travel for onsite deployments
Bretton AI provides an AI platform for financial crime operations used by regulated banks and global financial institutions. It uses AI agents to automate KYC/KYB, AML and sanctions investigations, and ongoing transaction monitoring, integrating with existing compliance systems and pulling data from 200+ sources to generate investigation outputs and audit-ready narratives. Its Trust Infrastructure governance system embeds regulatory guidance, model risk management, continuous AI evaluation, and quality assurance to ensure explainable, regulator-aligned operations. The company sells SaaS with tiered pricing to banks and large fintech platforms, differentiating itself through governance and auditability and aiming to define the standard for how AI is deployed in financial institutions and expand into more financial crime domains.
Company Size
51-200
Company Stage
Seed
Total Funding
$130K
Headquarters
San Francisco, California
Founded
2023
Simplify's Take
What believers are saying
- $75M Series B in February 2026 fuels expansion into larger OCC-regulated banks.
- Agents completed 1.2M investigations, saving $10M and 195K hours for customers.
- Average contract value rose to $201K by 2026 from $25K at 2023 Seed.
What critics are saying
- NICE Actimize erodes market share in large banks within 12-18 months via core integration.
- New OCC rule in Q3 2026 triggers 20-30% churn demanding certified validation.
- Feedzai's 40% better false positive reduction causes switches in 6-12 months.
What makes Bretton AI unique
- Proprietary Trust Infrastructure ensures audit-ready, explainable AI agents from inception.
- Bretton AI Horizon automates L2 investigations with agentic workspace integrating LexisNexis and Equifax.
- AI agents leverage 200+ data sources for KYC, AML, and sanctions across L1 and L2 workflows.
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Benefits
Health Insurance
401(k) Retirement Plan
401(k) Company Match
Paid Vacation
Unlimited Paid Time Off
Flexible Leave Options
Sabbatical Leave
Paid Holidays
Remote Work Options
Hybrid Work Options
Flexible Work Hours
Commuter Benefits
Phone/Internet Stipend
Home Office Stipend
Wellness Program
Company News
Introducing Bretton AI Horizon: the agentic workspace for complex investigations. February 25, 2026 Bretton AI agents complete alert reviews with rigor, speed, and deep auditability. But some investigations need an escalated review driven by humans. This is the reality of financial crime compliance. While AI workflows excel at automating high-volume, repetitive L1 alert reviews, the most complex and critical work - the Level 2 (L2) investigation - requires a different approach. These are the cases that don't fit a template, where an experienced investigator's judgment is the most valuable asset. Today, Bretton AI is proud to introduce Bretton AI Horizon, the first automation platform designed specifically for complex financial crime escalations. Horizon is an agentic workspace that gives your best investigators the AI tool they need to complete thorough reviews with rigor, speed and quality. The escalation challenge. L2 investigations are, by nature, unpredictable. They are often unstructured, requiring analysts to navigate a maze of internal systems and external data sources. The process is a frustrating "swivel chair" marathon of logging in, copying data, and manually piecing together a case file - all before the real analytical work can even begin. This friction doesn't just slow down investigations; it puts a ceiling on the capacity and effectiveness of a bank's most experienced compliance professionals. Horizon: an agentic workspace for L2 analysis. Horizon is designed to break through that ceiling. It is an interactive, agent-powered workspace that layers on top of your existing case management and screening systems, meaning you don't need a massive migration to get started. With Horizon, investigators can direct an AI agent to: * Retrieve records and data without "swiveling" between systems. This works for internal systems as well as external sources like LexisNexis, Thomson Reuters, and Equifax. * Create research plans in line with your internal best practices and execute these complex reviews with ease. * Draft narratives from your firm's narrative library after completing the analysis, ensuring consistency and adherence to your established templates. Horizon handles the laborious data gathering and documentation, freeing up your experts to focus on the critical thinking and nuanced analysis that only a human can provide. Built on a foundation of Trust. Bretton Horizon is built atop its proprietary Trust Infrastructure, ensuring deep auditability, model validation, and information security controls. This gives banks of all sizes the confidence to safely deploy agentic AI into their most sensitive workflows. Every action the agent takes is explainable, auditable, and governable, meeting the rigorous standards of financial regulators. With Bretton, you can now automate L1 reviews end-to-end and give your best analysts Horizon to handle complex escalations. It's a complete solution for the modern financial crime compliance team, enabling growth without compromise. Bretton AI: the platform for L1 and L2 compliance operations. Bretton AI is now the only platform that completes end-to-end L1 investigations and with the launch of Horizon, improves the efficacy of L2 operations. One workspace for all of your financial crime intelligence work.
Greenlite AI, which recently closed a $15 million Series A led by venture firm Greylock, is hiring aggressively in every department to support a waitlist of customers looking to automate and improve their financial compliance workflows.
Streamlining KYB: Greenlite AI partners with Middesk to accelerate due diligence.
This effort is part of the tech giant’s effort to foster trust among its cloud customers as it sells them AI products from companies like OpenAI and xAI, the Financial Times (FT) reported Sunday (June 8). Sarah Bird, Microsoft’s head of Responsible AI, told the FT the company would soon add a “safety” category to its “model leaderboard,” a feature it created recently for developers to rank iterations from providers including China’s DeepSeek and France’s Mistral. The leaderboard, which is accessible to clients using the Azure Foundry developer platform, is expected to influence which AI models and applications are purchased via Microsoft
“The last 20 years of compliance has been broadly building systems that help you identify risks,” Greenlite AI CEO Will Lawrence said during a conversation with PYMNTS CEO Karen Webster. “What happens when it goes wrong? That’s when a human gets involved. It’s a very labor-intensive and operationally intensive process.”. A study cited by Lawrence alleged that up to 85% of what compliance investigators do is non-analytical work, such as document processing, form-filling and internal follow-ups. “If you told me my sales team was only going to spend 15% of their time selling, I’d be very concerned,” he said. “But we’ve tolerated that in compliance.”