Coinflow
Applied AI Lead
Chicago
Sponsorship not specified$150k-$220kDetected 90 days ago
TypeScriptFull-Stack DevelopmentSnowflakedbtLLMsLeadership
About the role
- The right person combines deep applied AI fluency with strong product sense and operational judgment.
Responsibilities
- Identify, prioritize, and own the highest-value AI opportunities across the Coinflow organization, including Compliance, Risk, Support, Finance, GTM, and Product
- Build and ship internal AI tools, copilots, and workflow automations that reduce cycle time, improve quality, and increase team throughput
- Own projects end-to-end from workflow mapping and architecture through implementation, rollout, measurement, and iteration
- Build the core applied AI infrastructure needed to support production use cases, including retrieval pipelines, tool integrations, and internal data access patterns
- Hands-on experience building and deploying applied AI systems in production, including workflow automation, retrieval-based systems, and agentic patterns
- Strong fluency with modern AI tooling and tradeoffs, including LLM APIs, prompt design, context management, evaluation, retrieval, and orchestration
- Coinflow is looking for an Applied AI Lead to identify, build, and scale the company's highest-impact AI implementations.
Requirements
- 4+ years of software engineering experience shipping production systems end-to-end
- Strong proficiency in TypeScript and modern full-stack development
- Ability to work cross-functionally to map complex workflows, translate ambiguous stakeholder needs into scoped solutions, and execute with clear success metrics
- Comfort owning reliability, iteration, and governance in production environments
Nice to have
- Experience in fintech, payments, compliance, fraud, risk, security, or other high-stakes operational environments
- Experience driving internal AI adoption or enablement, not just shipping standalone tools
- Experience as an early engineering hire, founder, or zero-to-one builder
- Experience with modern data platforms such as Snowflake, dbt, or similar systems that support reliable AI access to operational data
- Opportunity to shape how AI is implemented across a rapidly scaling fintech company
- Direct impact on the company's highest-priority operational and product initiatives
- Collaborative environment with cross-functional exposure to leadership, product, engineering, and operations
Compensation
- The base salary range for this role is $150,000 to $220,000 USD.
Benefits
- Competitive compensation including base salary, performance bonus, and meaningful ownership
- The actual base salary offered depends on a variety of factors, including but not limited to experience, education, skills, qualifications and business needs.
- In addition, the employee who fills this role will be eligible for an equity grant, allowing you to share in the long-term success of the company.
- You will also have access to a wide array of benefits, including health and wellness benefits, 401(k) savings plan, and flexible time off.
Company info
- About Coinflow
- Coinflow is the next-generation payment service provider revolutionizing global financial infrastructure with stablecoins, AI-driven fraud prevention, and instant settlement.
- Coinflow enables businesses to grow faster with instant settlement, fraud & chargeback indemnity, global pay-ins, multi-currency FX, and unified payouts.
- Founded in 2023, the company serves marketplaces, fintechs, remittance providers, gaming platforms, and ecommerce merchants worldwide.
- Since our seed round in 2024, we've achieved 23x revenue growth and scaled to multi-billion-dollar annual transaction volume.
- In response to this growth, Coinflow announced a $25M Series A https://coinflow.cash/blog/coinflows-series-a in October 2025-led by Pantera Capital, CMT Digital, Coinbase Ventures, Jump Crypto, and Reciprocal Ventures-accelerating our mission to power the world's fastest-moving businesses with innovative, reliable global payments.
- Coinflow is proudly headquartered in Chicago, IL.
- Learn more at coinflow.cash http://coinflow.cash.
- Drive adoption through documentation, training, and close partnership with business teams so systems become part of daily operations
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