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Founding Staff ML / AI Engineer at Confido

Confido
New York, US
Full-time
$118K–$160K
Estimated
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Required Skills

Applied AI/ML
LLM fine-tuning
Machine Learning Systems Design
Natural Language Processing (NLP)
Cloud/Serverless Services

Job Description

Confido is a next-generation financial automation and intelligence platform that helps fast-growing CPG brands operate and scale more efficiently.

Confido is building an AI-native operating system for brands that sell into brick-and-mortar retail. We’re building intuitive and powerful software paired with AI agents that help brands automate the 1000s of hours of tedious manual work that goes into scaling a brand in retail. Brands like Tropicana and Olipop use our first products in accounting and planning to account for and plan for $Bs of retail revenue.

We have best in class growth (5x YoY), efficiency and recently raised an unannounced Series A.

You will be our Founding Staff ML / AI Engineer, setting the foundation for evolving our AI / ML capabilities. We have a unique mix of work across LLMs and advanced machine learning. 

Potential Projects:

  • Developing agentic systems to retrieve information from legacy systems

  • Leverage NLP and LLMs to understand complex documents

  • Predict brand sales using advanced machine learning techniques

  • Detect anomalies in sales data to help brands sell more

  • Recommend the optimal promotion for a brand at a retailer What You'll Do:

  • Own the full AI / ML lifecycle—from research & prototyping to production deployment & monitoring

  • Collaborate directly with our CTO and CEO to define our technical and product strategy. About You:

  • Minimum of 5 years of Applied AI / ML experience, ideally in a startup environment

  • Strong product mindset—the ability to bridge AI capabilities with real-world usage

  • Experience fine-tuning LLMs (Llama, GPT) and designing AI prompt workflows.

  • Strong background in ML systems design and engineering best practices Confido develops in: Ruby on Rails for our back-end, TypeScript React for the front-end, and Python for ML services and R&D analysis. We also use a variety of cloud/serverless services including AWS Textract, Lambda, S3, SES, Postgres, Porter K8s, and Render.

Job Details

Employment Type

Full-time

Salary Range

$118K–$160K

Estimated

Location

New York, US