Head of Applied AI
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Head of Applied AI leading AI Platform team at Catena Labs building AI-native financial services. Focusing on AI engineering and data science to innovate financial technology responsibly.
Responsibilities:
- Own the orchestration layer connecting product experiences to banking infrastructure
- Establish eval frameworks that prove our agents are reliable
- Stay ahead of emerging agent protocols (A2A, x402, MCP, LangGraph) and integrate where it strengthens our infrastructure
- Partner closely with Product Development and Banking Core to ensure AI capabilities are deeply integrated
- Hire and develop AI engineers and data scientists as the team grows
Requirements:
- Deep experience shipping production AI systems, whether that's a decade in ML or fewer years with intensive focus on the current LLM paradigm
- You build things directly. You're not looking for a role where you manage without coding.
- Strong intuition for model selection, eval methodology, and build-vs-buy tradeoffs
- Security-minded. You understand prompt injection, adversarial inputs, and why these matter more when money is involved.
- Comfortable with ambiguity, able to set direction while shipping
Benefits:
- None specified



