# Head of Applied AI

**Company:** [Catena Labs](https://hotfix.jobs/companies/catena-labs)
**Location:** Remote
**Role:** Engineering Management
**Skills:** Python, TypeScript, AWS, Cloudflare, Machine Learning, LLMs, Agent Protocols, LangGraph, Mcp, Evaluation Frameworks
**Posted:** 2025-12-18

> 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.

## Job Description

## 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

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