Forward Deployed AI Engineer
AI risk platform that helps financial institutions prevent fraud, ensure compliance, and detect money laundering through behavioral analysis and device intelligence.
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About Sardine
Sardine helps financial institutions prevent fraud and ensure compliance by analyzing user behavior and device intelligence in real-time. Users can detect identity theft, payment fraud, account takeovers, and money laundering while streamlining KYC/AML processes. Sardine provides risk management with AI agents, case management, and regulatory reporting tools.
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About the Role
Embed with clients to translate ambiguous operational challenges into technical architectures and build end-to-end AI solutions. Architect, train, fine-tune, evaluate, and deploy custom AI agents and ML models, establish AI risk metrics and evaluation pipelines, and collaborate with engineering and product teams on production integration.
Requirements
- 5+ years of experience in Data Science or Applied AI.
- Proficiency in Python.
- Proficiency in SQL.
- Ability to own the end-to-end solution lifecycle and translate ambiguous client challenges into concrete requirements and deliverables.
- Creative, critical thinker with a get-things-done mentality and ability to work autonomously.
Responsibilities
- Embed with clients to gather requirements and translate operational challenges into technical architectures.
- Train and deploy custom AI agents to prevent fraud and automate fincrime workflows.
- Apply prompt engineering, fine-tuning, and evaluation frameworks to optimize AI agent performance.
- Establish AI risk metrics, supporting datasets, and evaluation pipelines to measure impact.
- Collaborate with engineering and product teams to scale models into production and ensure integration.
Benefits
- Equity, including early exercise for all options and pre-vested options.
- Remote-first work culture.
- Flexible paid time off and year-end break.
- Health, dental, and vision insurance for employees and dependents in the US and Canada.
- 4% 401k/RRSP matching in the US and Canada.
- MacBook Pro delivered to your door.
- One-time home office setup stipend.
- Monthly meal and social meet-up stipends.
- Annual health and wellness stipend.
- Annual learning stipend.