Staff Engineer AI Platform
Fireblocks is a digital asset infrastructure platform that helps financial institutions, fintechs, and businesses store, transfer, issue stablecoins, and manage digital assets securely.
Maintainer signals as of 9/2/2026
Funding history
About Fireblocks
Fireblocks provides digital asset infrastructure for financial institutions, fintechs, and businesses handling digital assets at scale. Users can secure custody, issue stablecoins, tokenize assets, process payments, and manage wallets through a unified platform. The platform uses multi-party computation cryptography with policy-based governance to secure private keys and automate transaction workflows.
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Candidate Availability
Required and preferred rules are kept separate and reflect the wording in the original posting.
About the Role
You will own an internal AI platform by architecting and writing production code, managing its roadmap, and keeping it reliable, secure, and easy to use. You will identify opportunities for AI leverage, shape stakeholder needs into technical plans, evaluate AI system quality and safety, and communicate technical direction through executive level discussions. You will also own cloud infrastructure and security controls.
Requirements
- Staff-level engineering experience building and operating high-scale systems
- Hands-on experience with modern AI systems
- Experience with frontier-model APIs, multi-agent orchestration, RAG, CLIs, and MCP
- Product ownership and proactive stakeholder communication
- Experience building or operating model routing gateways
- Experience routing inference based on cost, latency, capability, and data sensitivity
- Experience measuring and improving AI systems
- Experience with guardrails, least-privilege access, human-in-the-loop escalation, monitoring, and auditing
- Experience with cloud infrastructure, Kubernetes, CI/CD, and IaC
- Experience influencing cross-functional stakeholders
- Experience in fintech, security, or custody environments
- Experience with digital assets, blockchain, or Web3
Responsibilities
- Own the internal AI platform
- Architect and write production code
- Manage the platform roadmap
- Maintain platform reliability and security
- Identify opportunities for AI leverage
- Shape stakeholder needs into technical plans
- Measure AI system quality, cost, and safety
- Detect regressions in AI systems
- Implement guardrails, least-privilege access, monitoring, and audit controls
- Own cloud, Kubernetes, CI/CD, and IaC infrastructure
- Partner with security, legal, and finance