About the Role
Unique AI builds a generative AI platform that financial institutions trust with high-stakes work, focusing on reliability, auditability, and security. We aim to augment financial professionals by automating repetitive tasks, allowing them to focus on judgment, clients, and performance.
Responsibilities
- Design, build, deploy, and evaluate production AI agents for hedge fund workflows on top of Unique’s platform.
- Act as the senior technical counterpart to our Hedge Fund Product Expert, translating front-office workflows into reliable agent products.
- Represent Unique as the technical authority in client engagements with hedge funds, supporting the full lifecycle from design partner to production deployment.
- Collaborate closely with our product and engineering teams to feed deployment patterns and client insights back into the core platform.
Requirements
- 5+ years of experience building software or ML/AI products, including 2+ years developing LLM-based systems.
- Demonstrated experience designing, deploying, operating, and evaluating LLM-based applications in production environments, including agentic systems with tool calling and orchestration.
- Strong proficiency in Python and modern software engineering practices.
- Experience with low-level LLM experimentation beyond frameworks.
- Exceptional communication and documentation skills.
- Comfortable working with technical and business stakeholders, including senior client representatives.
- Ability to communicate clearly when navigating ambiguity.
- Must live in or around New York.
- Must have a valid work permit.
- Willingness to visit clients on-site within the USA.
Skills
- Python
- LLM-based systems
- GenAI
- Agentic systems
- Tool calling
- Orchestration
- Low-level LLM experimentation
Location
- New York
Work Type
- Hybrid
- On-site client visits
Experience Level
- 5+ years of experience
- 2+ years developing LLM-based systems
Education Level
- Bachelor’s or Master’s degree in Computer Science, Data Science, Mathematics, Engineering, Statistics, or a related field
- Equivalent demonstrated experience shipping production AI systems
Salary/Compensations
- $200-250k DOE
Benefits
- 25-day paid vacation
- 401k matching
- Healthcare provisions
About the Company
- Unique AI builds a generative AI platform for financial institutions, focusing on reliability, auditability, and security.
- We aim to augment financial professionals, not replace them.
- We offer an inclusive environment and encourage all genders and neuro-diversities to apply.
- A chance to be part of a leading company in a rapidly evolving industry.
- Engage in groundbreaking projects within the Generative AI space.
- Contribute towards building the foundations enabling financial institutions to operationalize AI.
- A modern company with flat hierarchies that focuses on a people-oriented culture and places great emphasis on transparency and open communication.
- Collaborate with our offices in Switzerland, London, Berlin, New York and Singapore.
Equal Opportunity
- We offer an inclusive environment at Unique and we encourage all genders and all neuro-diversities to apply.
