Sr. Applied AI Engineer

Taktile empowers financial institutions to transform into truly AI-native organizations. We’re growing rapidly with enterprise customers across banks and insurance companies, and we’re looking for an Applied AI Engineer. This role will be at the heart of that transformation, building advanced agentic products that solve high-value problems. You will act as a product owner for the AI agents you create, turning them into reusable applications that solve concrete customer problems at scale in the financial crime or credit risk space.

If you're passionate about applying AI to real-world financial decisioning, stay current on advances in generative AI, and bring a solid foundation in Python, SQL, and working with APIs, you'll thrive here.

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• You bring 3-6 years of data science, software engineering, consulting, or product management experience that includes customer-facing work or product ownership.

• You have a strong technical or quantitative background, preferably in fields such as Computer Science, Mathematics, Software Engineering, Physics, Data Science, or Economics.

• You are eager to dive into the domain of our customers, including credit underwriting, financial risk assessment, and financial crime detection.

• You write clean, maintainable Python and SQL, and have a good understanding of REST APIs.

• You excel at breaking down complex problems and abstracting them into scalable, reusable solutions.

• You build strong relationships with both technical and business stakeholders at all levels, driven by a product-centric mindset to understand their needs and solve their challenges at scale.

• You are open to a hybrid work model and can work from our London or Berlin office at least three days per week.

• You have experience in building AI applications within financial services.

• You have experience in applying and optimizing statistical and machine learning models to solve business problems.

• You have experience with at least one of the major cloud platforms (AWS, Azure, GCP).

• We're eager to meet talented and driven candidates regardless of whether they tick all the boxes. We're looking for someone who will add to our culture, not just fit within it. We strongly encourage individuals from groups traditionally underestimated and underrepresented in tech to apply.

• We seek to actively recognize and combat racism, sexism, ableism and ageism. We embrace and support all gender identities and expressions, and celebrate love in its many forms. We won't inquire about how you identify or if you've experienced discrimination, but if you want to tell your story, we are all ears.

Taktile enables financial institutions to transform into AI-native organizations that are increasingly powered by autonomous agents. With our modular Agentic Decision Platform, customers combine AI agents, rules, relevant context, and human oversight to safely automate and optimize their decisions—approving more customers, reimbursing claims instantly, stopping fraud before it spreads, and financing every business worth funding. Founded in 2020, Taktile powers millions of decisions daily for institutions including Mercury, Monzo, Faire, and Pleo. With offices in New York, Berlin, London, São Paulo, and Iași, the company has raised $184M from Growth Equity at Goldman Sachs Alternatives, Index Ventures, Tiger Global, Balderton Capital, and Y Combinator. Learn more at taktile.com.

About Your Employment. Taktile operates through regional entities worldwide. Depending on the location of this role, your employment or engagement will be with Taktile LLC (US), Taktile GmbH (Germany), Taktile Ltd (UK), or Taktile SRL (Romania). The applicable entity will be confirmed during the offer process.

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