AI Engineer

Cooperidge Consulting Firm•San Francisco, CA

About The Position

Cooperidge Consulting Firm is seeking an AI Engineer for a top Financial Technology (FinTech) client. This role focuses on building and deploying AI agent systems that automate complex financial audit workflows, including autonomous planning, memory, and tool execution. The engineer will own features end to end, working closely with technical leadership in a fast-paced, production-focused environment.

Requirements

Bachelor’s degree in Computer Science, Engineering, Mathematics, or a related technical field (or equivalent practical experience)
0–5 years of experience in software engineering, AI engineering, or related roles
Hands-on experience building or working with AI agent systems or autonomous workflows
Experience with full-stack development in production environments
Exposure to large-scale data processing and multithreaded or distributed systems
Strong programming skills and software engineering fundamentals
Experience with AI agent concepts such as planning, memory, and tool orchestration
Ability to debug complex system behavior and performance bottlenecks
Comfort working in fast-moving, startup-style engineering environments
Strong problem-solving skills and ability to learn new domains quickly

Responsibilities

Design and implement AI agent architectures including planning, memory, tool use, and recovery mechanisms
Develop fault-tolerant, end-to-end features integrated into production systems
Process and manage large-scale datasets (100GB+), optimizing workloads across processes and threads
Debug and resolve production issues involving agent behavior, performance, and edge cases
Collaborate with engineering and product stakeholders to translate audit workflows into automated systems
Rapidly prototype and deploy improvements to existing AI agents
Maintain clean, scalable, and well-documented codebases