
Helmsted is hiring a
Founding AI Engineer
About Helmsted
Helmsted is the AI-native operating system for wealth advisors of complex households: planning, tax and estate analysis, meetings and the client portal, run by agents that do the work. Small team, live with pilot firms, shipping daily.
Job Description
Founding role to build the agents and the intelligence behind them with our CTO: evals and systems that improve from their own usage, long-term memory, retrieval over millions of documents, model routing and cost, and secure, permissioned access to client data. Fintech experience is a plus, not a requirement. Responsibilities include developing AI agents and the underlying systems, designing evals that improve from usage, implementing long-term memory and retrieval over large document stores, building model routing and cost controls, and ensuring secure, permissioned access to client data. This is a remote, US-based position with equity; applicants encouraged to apply on an ongoing basis. To apply, email careers@helmsted.ai with a resume and short answers to the questions in the full JD (https://helmsted.ai/careers/helmsted-founding-ai-engineer.pdf).Remote
Remote Conditions
US-based remote; candidates must be located in the United States; relocation to centralize the team may occur in the future.
Salary
160K
Β toΒ
200K
Benefits
["equity","paid sick leave","health insurance","401(k)"]
Tech Tags
Equity Offered
Senior Role
Date Listed
02 November, 2026 (about 3 hours ago)
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