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.
Maintainer signals as of 8/12/2026
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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
You will embed directly with clients to gather requirements, translate ambiguous operational challenges into concrete technical architectures, and build end-to-end solutions. You will architect, train, fine-tune, evaluate, and deploy custom AI agents and ML models into production to prevent fraud and automate complex workflows. You will define AI risk metrics and evaluation pipelines, continuously optimize agent performance, and collaborate with engineering and product teams to ensure reliable integration and operational performance.
Requirements
- 5+ years of experience in Data Science or Applied AI
- Proficiency in Python
- Proficiency in SQL
- Ability to own end-to-end solution lifecycle and translate ambiguous client challenges into concrete requirements and deliverables
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 and evolve 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 (offers equity; early exercise for all options, including pre-vested)
- Remote-first work from anywhere
- Flexible paid time off and year-end break
- Health insurance, dental, and vision coverage for employees and dependents (US and Canada specific)
- 4% matching in 401k / RRSP (US and Canada specific)
- MacBook Pro delivered to your door
- One-time home office setup stipend
- Monthly meal stipend
- Monthly social meet-up stipend
- Annual health and wellness stipend
- Annual learning stipend