Founding AI Engineer

Nexhelm AI
Seattle, Washington, United StatesFull-timePosted Sep 16, 2026

About the role

This role is part of the Jobright TNT - the private hiring network connecting top talent with top AI startups like Perplexity, Mercor, Cresta, Suno and 150 more.

This is not a mass job posting. Only select, high-signal candidates are invited to Jobright TNT and recommended directly to hiring teams

Hiring Company: Nexhelm AI

One-liner: Nexhelm AI is building an AI digital coworker for wealth management firms, aiming to reduce manual effort and improve accuracy.

Why Join Us:

Role Responsibilities

  • Build and optimize agentic systems for financial business domain knowledge, task automation and decision support
  • Design and implement data pipelines, memory systems, and contextual planning logic
  • Prototype fast, test in production, and ship features that directly impact users
  • Own infrastructure for evaluating model performance, latency, and reliability
  • Collaborate closely with the CTO and founding team on architecture, product decisions, and go-to-market fit

Qualifications

Required

  • Strong software engineer with 3–5+ years of experience, ideally with a focus in ML, NLP, or AI systems
  • Hands-on experience with LLMs and agentic frameworks (i.e. LangGraph), prompt engineering, fine-tuning, or vector DBs (e.g., Weaviate, Pinecone)
  • Experience building and scaling software systems in production
  • You think in systems and care deeply about both performance and usability
  • Startup-ready: you move fast, have strong ownership, and can thrive in ambiguity

Preferred

  • Experience with enterprise SaaS, productivity tools, or knowledge workflows
  • DevOps familiarity: Docker, cloud infrastructure, CI/CD, observability

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  • Apply to your first Jobright TNT role
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  • If qualified, your application is directly recommended to the employer
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  • Invited to apply for other exclusive TNT-only roles
  • Invited to private, invite-only hiring events with top startups

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Responsibilities

  • Build and optimize agentic systems for financial business domain knowledge, task automation and decision support
  • Design and implement data pipelines, memory systems, and contextual planning logic
  • Prototype fast, test in production, and ship features that directly impact users
  • Own infrastructure for evaluating model performance, latency, and reliability
  • Collaborate closely with the CTO and founding team on architecture, product decisions, and go-to-market fit

Qualifications

  • Strong software engineer with 3–5+ years of experience, ideally with a focus in ML, NLP, or AI systems
  • Hands-on experience with LLMs and agentic frameworks (i.e. LangGraph), prompt engineering, fine-tuning, or vector DBs (e.g., Weaviate, Pinecone)
  • Experience building and scaling software systems in production
  • You think in systems and care deeply about both performance and usability
  • Startup-ready: you move fast, have strong ownership, and can thrive in ambiguity

Skills mentioned

Generative AILarge Language ModelsAI AgentsLangGraphPrompt EngineeringFine-TuningData PipelinesModel EvaluationDockerCloud Computing

About Nexhelm AI

Every hire is two searches - a person looking for the right role, and a company looking for the right person. For two years, Jobright worked only the first one. 2 million professionals now use our AI agent to find roles, sharpen how they show up, and get in front of the people hiring. Earlier this year, we started working the second. Employers can now put Jobright on a role. Our AI recruiter sources from the professionals who already trust us, verifies every candidate is real, and reaches out under a name candidates recognize, which is why they reply. What reaches the hiring team is a list of people worth interviewing, within 24 hours. All they do is interview. Two searches. One platform. Agents on both sides that keep working until both sides say yes.

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