Hiring: Senior Applied AI/ML Engineer Company: Confido Location: New York, NY Job Posted Time: 2026-09-11 12:53:12 Target Skills & Keywords : LLM, RAG, REST About the job Experience: •5+ years of applied AI / ML, with systems you've taken to production (not just prototypes) Required Skills: •Build the core AI behind Confido — and get your hands on an unusually rich, messy dataset: hundreds of thousands of documents across dozens of sources and hundreds of layouts and contexts, much of it beyond what any system reads well today. •As a Senior Applied AI / ML Engineer, you'll own AI problems end to end — research, prototyping, production, and the evaluation that keeps probabilistic systems reliable — across document understanding, forecasting, and agentic workflows. •New York, NY (Relocation supported) •Build LLM systems that turn complex, inconsistent financial documents into clean, typed, validated data — the backbone the rest of the platform runs on •Design agentic workflows that retrieve and reason over fragmented enterprise systems, with the eval harnesses and guardrails to run them in production •Build and improve demand forecasting across thousands of intermittent series — classical time-series and gradient-boosted models, with rolling-origin backtesting and best-fit selection •Wrangle messy, real-world data: baselining, outlier and anomaly detection, entity reconciliation, and ingestion across heterogeneous sources •Own how we measure success — eval datasets, benchmarks, and monitoring for systems with no single "correct" answer Qualifications: •Demand forecasting / time-series (Prophet, ARIMA-family, gradient-boosted) •Agentic workflows, RAG, or retrieval systems in production •Document understanding / information extraction from unstructured sources •Startup experience or comfort in fast-moving environments •Equity — own a meaningful piece of the company you’re helping build •Fully paid health coverage through Aetna — we cover 100% of employee premiums •Top-tier dental and vision coverage through Guardian •Carrot Fertility Pro — comprehensive fertility and family-forming support •12 weeks of paid parental leave •Unlimited PTO — plus regular 4-day holiday weekends we actually take Compensation: •$250,000 - $330,000 / year Interested candidates, please apply directly through the job posting on company's career page or try via AI auto apply on this platform. Don't miss this opportunity to join a forward-thinking team!