Catena Labs is hiring an AI Engineer

Catena Labs is looking for an AI Engineer to build AI-native financial infrastructure and services that enable AI systems to conduct commerce. You will design and develop specialized AI agents, agent-to-agent protocols, and the foundational elements for autonomous digital workers.

What You'll Do

• Build agent-to-agent protocols where digital workers coordinate, make decisions, and execute financial transactions securely.
• Design and develop specialized agents tailored to handle specific tasks, such as supporting risk management, ensuring compliance, or creating other AI agents.
• Use your expertise in AI agent development, including evaluation methods, system design, and prompt engineering.
• Build the foundational elements for how agents will pay and get paid in an autonomous future, with human-in-the-loop when appropriate.
• Develop identity and memory architecture that helps agents build reputation, learn from the past and reason in context.
• Build interfaces for developers building in agent ecosystems across multiple languages like TypeScript and Python.
• Build systems for testing, tuning, and continuously improving agent behaviors and decision-making.

What We're Looking For

• Experience shipping scalable agent-based or LLM-integrated systems in production environments.
• Familiarity with, and frequent use of, modern AI tools and frameworks, such as MCP and A2A.
• A clear understanding of how to structure agents with short and long-term memory, as well as when and how to create a separation of concerns.
• A track record of navigating ambiguity, proposing architecture, and building systems that scale.
• Comfort with fast-paced environments where 0→1 thinking is not a phase — it’s the job.

Nice to Have

• Deep interest in how and why identity and economic agency intersect in AI systems.
• Curiosity about what makes AI agents safe, useful, and autonomous, and the drive to improve that every day.

Technical Stack

• MCP, A2A, LangChain, CrewAI, Vercel AI, Pydantic, TypeScript, Python

We are a team united by talent, curiosity, and the passion to invent an entirely new category of financial services. We work together to build a stronger, more resilient global economy that creates broad prosperity.