Sphinx Defense

Forward Deployed Engineer

San Francisco · Exec · Contract

Sponsorship not specifiedDetected 274 days ago

AWSRESTMachine LearningComputer VisionAgentic AICollaboration

About the role

tl;dr: We're automating compliance for banks and fintechs with AI agents that work like human analysts - on a browser.
Demand is growing faster than we can keep up, and we're expanding our deployment team to meet the needs of major institutions across the U.S., Canada, Europe, and LatAm.
If you love shipping real systems in live environments, solving edge cases in record time, and working directly with clients, we should talk.

Our team owns features vertically.
You'll architect agent behaviors, build backend systems, optimize ML pipelines, and ship product features - often in the same week.
You'll ship fixes in live environments, build diagnostic tools, and feed learnings back into our product to make every deployment faster and smarter.

You enjoy the challenge of figuring things out as you go, and have confidence in your ability to become fluent with our product.

🏥 Comprehensive healthcare
🏝️ Unlimited PTO
This requires computer vision, DOM understanding, and robust error handling at scale.
You'll design flexible integration layers, map complex workflows, and make agents resilient to interface changes and client-specific quirks.

Banks spend $50B a year hiring thousands of analysts to review alerts and fill out reports by hand.
The space has seen very little innovation, and customers complain about our most well-funded competitors weekly.
It's not glamorous - until you realize you're building the intelligence layer that protects the entire financial system.
Our co-founders previously sold an AI company & have built ML systems that scaled to millions of users and closed deals with major banks.
The rest of our team in SF includes PhDs, industry experts, and competitive coders.
we're not chasing investors, we're chasing customers.
We're trusted by leading banks and fintechs across the world.
They've seen 90% less manual work, 4× lower costs.
Browser Agents for the Invisible Web
Most financial crime data isn't accessible via APIs - it lives in legacy systems, government portals, and third-party platforms.
You're the bridge between customers and our codebase.
You can translate client needs into precise technical requirements and technical issues into clear explanations.
Our customers protect the financial system from criminals.
Your code directly prevents money laundering and terrorism financing.
That matters.

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