About the role

Technical co-founder building FutureSight’s explainable AI compliance platform for regulated financial firms. Owning architecture, LLM systems, product delivery, security, customers, fundraising, and founding-team recruitment.

Responsibilities

Establish the core architecture, engineering culture, and security posture, including SOC 2 readiness, tenant isolation, encryption, and audit logging
Ship a marketing review prototype into production with a design partner early adopter
Deliver communications surveillance, trading oversight, audit-ready logs and reporting
Release GA v1 covering all core modules except regulatory filings within 9 months
Expand into regulatory filings and enterprise integrations through 18 months
Own the training and constant evolution of the core AI/LLM model
Own the explainability layer producing audit-ready evidence on demand
Lead reliability engineering to ensure consistent platform performance in the field
Represent the company to customers, third-party interests, and investors as the technical voice of the venture
Convert pilots into ten paying customers and reach $1M ARR within 18 months, partnering with the CEO on conversion and fundraising
Recruit and lead the founding engineering and applied AI team
Establish the cultural foundation of the company

Shipped LLM-powered systems into production environments where incorrect outputs carried real consequences
Full-stack confidence across applied LLMs, RAG, retrieval, deterministic rules engines, human-in-the-loop workflows, observability, and secure multi-tenant SaaS
Experience with SOC 2, tenant isolation, encryption, and audit logging
Well-formed convictions about explainability and reliability engineering developed through direct production experience
Preference for systems that perform consistently in the field over systems that demonstrate well in controlled settings
Prepared to operate as a principal by setting the technical agenda, making decisive calls under uncertainty, and owning outcomes
Strongly preferred: prior founder, founding engineer, or early-stage technical leadership experience
Strongly preferred: background in legal tech, RegTech, fintech compliance, healthcare, or another high-trust regulated vertical
Strongly preferred: familiarity with the U.S. wealth management ecosystem, including SEC and FINRA workflows, marketing review, communications surveillance, and trade monitoring
Strongly preferred: direct experience self-hosting or privately deploying foundation models
Submit a resume, LinkedIn profile, and brief note explaining alignment with the venture as a founder

Founder-level equity
Founder-level authority with co-decision rights on product, technology, hiring, fundraising, and strategy
Board or board-observer seat as appropriate to the cap table and stage
Genuine partnership with the CEO on every material decision
Diversity, equity, and inclusion commitment