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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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