6 months ago
Responsibilities
- Design and operate RAG and agentic systems over complex financial data with measurable accuracy, latency, and cost.
- Build scalable backend services for PDF, OCR, and CSV document processing, async job queues, case orchestration, risk scoring, and human-in-the-loop workflows.
- Productionize AI systems through evaluation pipelines, dataset and version management, A/B testing, guardrails, and fallback behavior.
- Harden the platform with authentication controls, role-based access, audit trails, backups, monitoring, and measurable SLOs.
- Establish deployment pipelines, runbooks, and incident response practices.
- Contribute to AI research on agentic reasoning over regulatory and financial data.
- Define architecture, technical roadmap, and product direction with the founding team.
Requirements
- At least 1 year of experience on technical projects; startup experience is strongly preferred.
- Strong TypeScript and Python skills across modern frontend and backend stacks.
- Hands-on experience shipping LLM integrations or RAG systems into production user-facing products.
- Experience with document processing, entity extraction, and structured data extraction from messy real-world sources.
- Strong understanding of API design, relational databases, and async job processing systems.
- Proven ability to take products from local prototypes to reliable production at growing scale.
- Ability to debug across frontend, backend, infrastructure, and data boundaries.
- Preferred experience includes KYC, KYB, AML, sanctions screening, beneficial ownership, regulated fintech, LangChain, LlamaIndex, banking APIs, OCR, document intelligence, cloud deployment, and DevOps.
Benefits
- Competitive salary and equity.
- 100% health, dental, and vision coverage.
- Commuter stipend.
- Regular team events and off-sites.
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About Pear VC
Pear VC is an early-stage venture capital partnership that invests at pre-seed and seed, pairing capital with hands-on support, mentorship, and programs like its PearX accelerator for founding teams. Founded in 2013 and headquartered in Menlo Park, California, it backs software and technology startups across categories. Its portfolio includes companies that reached the public markets, such as DoorDash and Guardant Health.