1st10 is a boutique recruiting firm that works with founders and investors to build early engineering teams. Our team helped build early Robinhood, Airbnb, Stripe and many more.
The Startup
Product: AI-native financial reporting
Significant product traction with paying customers!
Seed funding from Lightspeed Ventures
Five person team (2 founders, 3 engineers)
Based in SF, hybrid in-office
Challenges you're likely to face
Building from 0 to 1 - You will architect technical direction with strategic decisions on architecture, tools, and processes to transform vision to reality.
Quick iterations - You will lead prototype development and iterate quickly to capture customer needs and find product-market fit.
The AI space moves fast. You'll help gauge when to build, buy, or wait, staying up to date on the latest AI research and building that knowledge into roadmap.
The financial reporting space requires high precision and high accuracy - the metrics produced must be correct and exact to the cent. You'll have to be creative about how to introduce probabilistic models while keeping the quality bar high.
Project management - oversee projects/initiatives from inception to delivery
What you need to be successful
Bachelor's/Master's degree in Computer Science, Engineering, or related field
8+ years of work experience, with significant startup experience highly valued
Demonstrated technical skills in dynamic, fast-paced environments
Developed AI/ML applications, familiar with MLOps, and have automated ML workflows end-to-end across environments in cloud providers like AWS or GCP.
Expertise in programming languages with a strong focus on AI/ML models, deep learning, and natural language processing.
Exceptional problem-solving skills, leadership qualities, and resilience under pressure.
A genuine passion for leveraging AI technology to transform industries.