Wealth.com is hiring a Senior Applied Scientist - AI/ML

Wealth.com is looking for a Senior Applied Scientist to build the next generation of legal and financial AI. In this role, you'll focus on the practical application of building, scaling, and maintaining robust, production-grade AI systems, moving from complex document understanding to developing sophisticated AI agents that will redefine estate planning.

What You'll Do

• Design, build, and deploy production-grade systems leveraging Large Language Models (LLMs) from providers like OpenAI, Google Vertex AI, and Anthropic.
• Develop and scale end-to-end applications for complex document understanding, focusing on textual, financial, and tabular data.
• Build sophisticated, high-precision RAG (Retrieval-Augmented Generation) systems that are battle-tested for production traffic.
• Implement robust guardrails, validation layers, and monitoring to preemptively address model limitations.
• Engineer and deploy complex, multi-step AI agents, with a focus on creating scalable, maintainable, and secure agentic workflows.
• Own projects from conception to deployment, making key architectural decisions and ensuring systems meet stringent requirements for latency, precision, and recall.
• Build scalable ETL (Extract, Transform, Load) data pipelines to process and prepare complex datasets for AI model consumption.
• Collaborate closely with product managers, software engineers, and other scientists to build tools, define metrics, and improve AI system quality.
• Align technical work with business outcomes, effectively communicating the impact and performance of systems to stakeholders.

What We're Looking For

• A degree in Computer Science, Engineering, or a related quantitative field or equivalent practical experience.
• Proven experience building and shipping software in a production environment.
• Strong software engineering fundamentals, including data structures, algorithms, system design, and writing clean, maintainable code.
• Hands-on experience building, deploying, and maintaining production-level agent systems using frameworks like Agent Development Kit (ADK) or LangGraph.
• Proficiency in Python and a strong aptitude for working in a polyglot environment that may include TypeScript and C#.
• Experience developing applications that consume and integrate APIs from major AI providers.

Nice to Have

• 5+ years of professional experience writing production code and shipping AI/ML-powered features.
• Demonstrated experience building and scaling agentic workflows.
• Experience working in a highly regulated industry such as LegalTech, FinTech, or HealthTech.
• Experience with MLOps, including setting up training pipelines, monitoring model performance in production, and implementing CI/CD for ML systems.
• Familiarity with techniques for ensuring data privacy and security in AI systems.

Technical Stack

• Languages: Python, TypeScript, C#
• AI Models & Services: Large Language Models (LLMs), OpenAI, Google Vertex AI, Anthropic, Azure OpenAI
• Frameworks: Agent Development Kit (ADK), LangGraph

Team & Environment

You will collaborate closely with product managers, software engineers, and other scientists.

Benefits & Compensation

• Competitive salary.
• Excellent medical, dental, and vision insurance options, with low-cost premium structures.
• 100% company-paid basic life insurance, short-term and long-term disability insurance.
• 100% paid parental leave upon eligibility.
• Company equity managed through Carta.
• 401k with match and 100% vesting upon hire.
• Flexible PTO.
• Take time off for holidays, including your birthday.

Work Mode

This is a hybrid work arrangement if you are located in the Phoenix or New York area. Otherwise, the role is fully remote.

Wealth.com is an equal opportunity employer and encourages people from all backgrounds to apply. Should you have a disability or special need that requires accommodation, please let us know.