About the job
Slash Financial develops business banking infrastructure tailored for modern companies. The team blends the dependability of traditional banking with features that help businesses operate more efficiently and stay ahead in their markets. Since its start in 2021, Slash Financial has grown quickly, now processing over $10 billion in annual transactions across various industries. Backed by a recent $100M Series C led by Ribbit Capital and supported by Khosla Ventures, Goodwater Capital, NEA, and Y Combinator, the company is focused on expanding its product offerings and scaling operations. The company values in-person teamwork and maintains a hands-on culture at its San Francisco office.
Role overview
As an Applied AI Engineer at Slash Financial, you will join Slash AI Labs, a team dedicated to integrating AI throughout the company’s financial platform. This early-stage role shapes the direction of Slash’s AI capabilities, focusing on building production-ready AI systems within a rapidly evolving fintech environment.
What you will do
- Develop and release full-stack AI features, including prompt engineering, agent orchestration, React interfaces, and API integrations.
- Enhance the agent runtime by improving orchestration, tool execution, MCP servers, graph-driven conversation states, and context compaction.
- Design agent experiences for web, Slack, and API-based user interactions.
- Create internal AI tools such as model evaluation frameworks, prompt management systems, and utilities for LLM observability.
- Work directly with Anthropic and OpenAI APIs, the Vercel AI SDK, and Slash’s custom orchestration layer to address tool-calling and multi-step reasoning challenges.
- Scale and optimize AI infrastructure, including inference routing, model tiering, prompt caching, and streaming on AWS/EKS.
Requirements
- Experience deploying full-stack AI products in production.
- Strong understanding of AI technologies and frameworks.
- Background in orchestration and management of AI models.
- Ability to design applications that function across multiple platforms and interfaces.
- Strong problem-solving skills and comfort working in a changing environment.
Location
This position is based onsite at the San Francisco office.
