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Catena LabsCatena LabsUnited States

Head of Applied AI

Leads AI Platform team building production AI systems for fintech products and operations, owning orchestration, evaluations, model selection, and team growth while hands-on coding. Requires deep experience shipping AI with security focus for financial applications.

Salary not listed
RemoteEngineering Management

About the role

What You'll Do

  • 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

Who You Are

  • 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

Tech Stack

We work primarily in Python and TypeScript, deploy on AWS and CloudFlare, and use multiple models. You'll have opinions on this stack and the latitude to evolve it.

Nice to Have

  • Experience in fintech, payments, or regulated financial services
  • Hands-on work with agent orchestration frameworks
  • Background in compliance or risk systems where auditability matters

Skills

PythonTypeScriptAWSCloudflareMachine LearningLLMsAgent ProtocolsLangGraphMcpEvaluation Frameworks
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