Artificial Intelligence Engineer

Founding AI Engineer
Remote | Early-stage startup | Equity-oriented opportunity
Zavvis is building a a financial observability layer that gives corporate finance teams continuous visibility into their financial operations. Inspired by how engineering observability transformed monitoring of complex systems, Zavvis applies similar principles to financial data to reveal causality and control across transactions.
We are looking for a strong AI Engineer to join the founding team and help us harden, improve and ship the AI capabilities of the product.
What you’ll work on
Building and improving production AI/LLM features
Making conversational and agentic workflows more reliable
Improving reasoning, context handling, tool use and structured outputs
Testing and evaluating AI behavior systematically
Integrating AI components with our backend, data and product systems
Debugging edge cases and improving production reliability
Working closely with the founder and technical team to ship quickly
What we’re looking for
Strong Python experience
Hands-on experience building applications with LLMs
Experience with OpenAI / Azure OpenAI or similar models
Familiarity with agent frameworks, tool/function calling and structured outputs
Experience with APIs, backend systems and production AI applications
Strong debugging and problem-solving skills
Comfortable working in a fast-moving early-stage environment
Experience with LangGraph, FastAPI, Pydantic, Azure or financial applications is a plus, but not required.
We care much more about what you can build and ship than titles or years of experience.
Stage & opportunity
Zavvis is currently bootstrapped and preparing for pilots while raising outside capital. We are not yet in a position to offer a conventional salary for this role. We are looking for someone interested in joining at the founding-team stage, with an ownership/equity-oriented structure and the intention to transition to paid compensation as funding or customer revenue comes in.
We would use the first month as an intensive working period to evaluate execution, ownership and long-term fit, with the opportunity to agree on a meaningful ongoing role and equity participation.
We are moving quickly and want someone who can join the current sprint and help us reach our product and commercial milestones before the end of Q4.
If interested, send me a message with your background and, ideally, something you have built using LLMs or agentic AI.

Work arrangement
Yes