Product & Technical Co-founder (CPTO) - AI Compliance Platform

FutureSight • San Francisco, CA

3d • Remote

About The Position

The Opportunity: Compliance in the U.S. financial industry (RIAs, broker-dealers, wealth fintechs) is currently heavily reliant on manual review processes for marketing materials, communications, and trades. This leads to significant operational costs and regulatory risks. The global RegTech market is projected for substantial growth, and there's a clear opportunity for innovative platforms. The Venture: We are developing an explainable AI platform designed to function like a senior compliance officer. It will provide AI-driven judgments, cite relevant policies and regulations, and generate audit-ready evidence for marketing, communications, trading, policy, audit, and filings. This platform aims to replace manual review with AI that can withstand regulatory scrutiny. The Partnership: A CEO co-founder is in place, customer validation is complete, and market research is done. The critical need is for a technical co-founder to lead product and engineering with a co-founder's commitment and equity. This role offers founder-level equity, decision-making authority, and a true partnership with the CEO.

Requirements

• Shipped LLM-powered systems into production environments where incorrect outputs carried real consequences — not prototypes or demonstrations.
• Full-stack confidence across applied LLMs, RAG, retrieval, deterministic rules engines, human-in-the-loop workflows, observability, and secure multi-tenant SaaS (SOC 2, tenant isolation, encryption, audit logging).
• Well-formed convictions about explainability and reliability engineering, developed through direct production experience.
• Prepared to operate as a principal — setting the technical agenda, making decisive calls under uncertainty, and owning the outcomes that follow.

Nice To Haves

• Prior founder, founding engineer, or early-stage technical leadership experience.
• Background in legal tech, RegTech, fintech compliance, healthcare, or another high-trust regulated vertical.
• Familiarity with the U.S. wealth management ecosystem, including SEC and FINRA workflows, marketing review, communications surveillance, and trade monitoring.
• Direct experience self-hosting or privately deploying foundation models.

Responsibilities

• Establish the core architecture, engineering culture, and security posture, including SOC 2 readiness, tenant isolation, encryption, and audit logging.
• Ship a marketing review prototype into production with a design partner early adopter.
• Deliver communications surveillance, trading oversight, audit-ready logs and reporting.
• Release GA v1 covering all core modules except regulatory filings within 9 months, and expand into regulatory filings and enterprise integrations through 18 months.
• Own the training and constant evolution of the core AI/LLM model, delivering robust and highly reliable analysis.
• Own the explainability layer that produces audit-ready evidence on demand, and the reliability engineering that ensures the platform performs consistently in the field.
• Represent the company in front of all customer constituencies and third-party interests, as well as investors, as the technical voice of the venture.
• Convert pilots into ten paying customers and reach $1M ARR within 18 months, partnering with the CEO on conversion and fundraising.
• Recruit and lead the founding engineering and applied AI team, and establish the cultural foundation of the company.

Benefits

• Founder-level equity
• Founder-level authority with co-decision rights on product, technology, hiring, fundraising, and strategy
• A board or board-observer seat as appropriate to the cap table and stage
• A genuine partnership with the CEO on every material decision

What This Job Offers

• Job Type: Full-time
• Career Level: Entry Level
• Education Level: No Education Listed