Founding Engineer, Applied AI Lead
Equi, New York (on-site)
About the job
About Equi
Equi is an investment management firm building institutional-quality alternative investment solutions. We operate a unique business model: in addition to offering Equi-branded funds, we build white-label fund-of-funds products for some of the top independent multi-family offices and financial advisory firms in the country. We combine deep manager-selection expertise with sophisticated portfolio construction to deliver differentiated outcomes for our clients and partners.
The firm is at an inflection point. Our AUM is scaling rapidly, we've just launched our largest client since inception (a 9-figure opportunity) and have ~6 more clients that have signed or at the finish line. We're assembling a small, high-caliber team that can grow with the platform and take on increasing responsibility as we scale.
About the Role
Equi is seeking a Founding Engineer and Head of Applied AI to serve as the lead builder across the entire company. This is a foundational leadership role: you'll design and build the systems that let a small team run an investment firm at much larger scale, working across the investment team, operations and go-to-market.
Equi is designed to run with AI agents doing much of the work and people steering them. Several roles here, from fund finance to go-to-market, are already built around agents. You'll build the systems underneath: pipelines that turn messy investment data into something reliable, agents that read and reason over investment data, carry out multi-step workflows across the investment process, and power new products for our clients. You'll also own what makes those agents trustworthy: the evals, traces and routing that tell us what's working, what isn't, and which model should handle each job.