AI Engineer

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Associate AI Engineer operating conversational AI systems for Figure, a blockchain-powered lending fintech. Building Python services, APIs, evaluations, and production AI integrations.

Responsibilities:

  • Improve AI-powered chat and voice services supporting customer-service and lending workflows
  • Build and maintain agent workflows, API-integrated tools, guardrails, retrieval rules, and escalation paths
  • Review workflows for logic errors, unsafe behavior, routing conflicts, and unnecessary model context
  • Establish disciplined development, staging, testing, review, and production-release practices
  • Partner with domain experts who own customer experience, policies, and lending operations
  • Determine whether problems are best solved through workflow logic, deterministic code, retrieval, an LLM, or a product change
  • Build automated tests and simulations for conversational workflows
  • Define and measure containment, escalation, answer quality, task completion, and customer-impact metrics
  • Develop tagging, monitoring, and quality-assurance systems for production conversations
  • Analyze failures and turn production evidence into prioritized improvements
  • Build pipelines that make conversational data available to analytics and reporting systems
  • Design controlled experiments and incremental rollouts that measure business outcomes
  • Build Python services and APIs that expose AI capabilities
  • Develop integrations between AI systems and Figure's internal services
  • Build data and evaluation pipelines using Python and SQL
  • Contribute to internal tools and user interfaces
  • Learn and apply Figure's deployment, monitoring, containerization, and CI/CD practices
  • Gradually own increasingly substantial production engineering projects
  • Inventory and review conversational tools that access internal or third-party APIs
  • Ensure sensitive operations use deterministic validation instead of unreliable model judgment
  • Support appropriate handling of customer data, credentials, PII, and regulated workflows
  • Maintain auditability for workflow changes and production behavior
  • Escalate security, compliance, and reliability concerns using sound technical reasoning
  • Within the first six months, understand Figure's conversational AI workflows and integrations, strengthen testing/monitoring/security/release discipline, resolve workflow reliability issues, produce performance reporting, ship at least one production integration/service/internal tool, and demonstrate increasing independence across Python, APIs, data, evaluation, and deployment
  • Over time, shift toward broader full-stack AI engineering as conversational systems become better governed and operational responsibilities become more distributed

Requirements:

  • Strong programming fundamentals and practical Python experience
  • Working knowledge of SQL and structured data analysis
  • Ability to break ambiguous problems into testable components
  • Comfort reading unfamiliar code and tracing system behavior
  • Strong written communication and attention to detail
  • Interest in AI behavior, analytics, backend systems, and product workflows
  • A habit of validating assumptions and measuring outcomes
  • Ability to collaborate with engineers and nontechnical domain experts
  • Desire to grow into a full-stack production AI engineer
  • Experience building an API, backend service, automation, data pipeline, or internal tool
  • Experience evaluating LLMs, conversational agents, or other probabilistic systems
  • Knowledge of experimental design, statistics, causal inference, or applied econometrics
  • Experience testing nondeterministic systems
  • Familiarity with retrieval-augmented generation, agent tools, workflow engines, or model evaluation
  • Ability to distinguish problems requiring deterministic logic from those suited to an LLM
  • Experience translating domain or policy requirements into software behavior
  • A degree or research background in economics, computer science, statistics, engineering, or another quantitative discipline is a nice-to-have
  • Graduate training involving empirical research and substantial programming is a nice-to-have
  • Experience with TypeScript or a modern frontend framework is a nice-to-have
  • Familiarity with cloud platforms, Docker, CI/CD, or infrastructure as code is a nice-to-have
  • Experience with experimentation systems, analytics platforms, or business-intelligence tools is a nice-to-have
  • Experience in lending, fintech, healthcare, or another regulated environment is a nice-to-have
  • Experience with customer-support or contact-center systems is a nice-to-have
  • A PhD is welcome but not required
  • Candidates must verify identity and eligibility to work in the United States
  • Figure will not sponsor work visas for this position

Benefits:

  • 25% annual bonus target, paid quarterly
  • Company equity in the form of RSUs
  • Comprehensive medical, dental, and vision coverage, with 100% employer-paid premiums for employees and their dependents on select plans
  • Company HSA, FSA, Dependent Care FSA, 401(k), and commuter benefits
  • Employer-paid life and disability insurance
  • 11 observed holidays and PTO plan
  • Up to 12 weeks of paid family leave
  • Continuing education reimbursement