Sphinx
Member of Technical Staff
8mo ago
120000 –300000 USD / yearUSALeadpythonapimachine learning
Building AI-powered compliance automation systems for banks and fintechs.
Conditions
- Massive, unsexy market: Banks spend $50B a year hiring thousands of analysts to review alerts and fill out reports by hand. The space has seen very little innovation, and customers complain about our most well-funded competitors weekly. It's not glamorous – until you realize you're building the intelligence layer that protects the entire financial system.
- We have never lost a deal to a competitor : Yes you heard that right, we’ve won every RFP we’ve been in.
- Small team, big surface area: Our co-founders previously sold an AI company & have built ML systems that scaled to millions of users and closed deals with major banks. The rest of our team in SF includes PhDs, industry experts, and competitive coders.
- Hard tech: we’re going from zero to one; our tech is our moat.
- Zero startup bullshit: we’re not chasing investors, we’re chasing customers. We’re trusted by leading banks and fintechs across the U.S., Canada, Europe, and LatAm. They’ve seen 90% less manual work, 4× lower costs.
- 🍽 Lunch, dinner and snacks at the office
- 🏥 Comprehensive healthcare
- 🏝️ Unlimited PTO
- 🗺️ Annual offsite (last one in Mexico)!
- ✈️ Paid relocation & one-month temporary housing
- 💻 Latest tech and as many monitors as you can fit on a desk
Other
- tl;dr: We’re automating compliance for banks and fintechs with AI agents that work like human analysts – on a browser. Demand is exploding, and we’re expanding our engineering team to move faster & meet our 6-month roadmap. If you love building end-to-end systems, shipping fast and tackling hard problems, we should talk.
- PS: want to skip the queue? Save Morty from Rick in our AI-proof coding challenge . If things go well, we'll reach out to organize an interview directly with our CTO. And if you win, we pay you $10k, no questions ask.
- Before you can move money or open an account, someone has to make sure you’re not a criminal. That’s compliance – and it’s broken.
- Sphinx builds AI analysts that work inside browsers, APIs, and internal systems just like humans — automating AML, KYC, KYB, and transaction monitoring end-to-end.
- Most financial crime data isn't accessible via APIs – it lives in legacy systems, government portals, and third-party platforms. We're building agents that navigate these systems like humans do: clicking, scrolling, interpreting unstructured data, and adapting to interface changes. This requires computer vision, DOM understanding, and robust error handling at scale.
- Risk doesn’t stop at borders, and neither can we. Our agents operate across languages and regulations, reconciling entities hidden behind shell structures and mismatched disclosures. Each check enriches a single, evolving graph of people, companies, and signals — a global risk intelligence network that never forgets.
- Payments don't wait for compliance. We process risk signals at the same speed money moves – millions of transactions, thousands of entities, sub-second decisions. Doing this right on AWS means distributed inference, caching, queue orchestration, and self-healing data pipelines.
- Out-of-the-box deep research agents easily confuse entities that look similar. ChatGPT isn’t going to be able to tell us whether John Smith is a terrorist. We’re building our own deep research pipeline to ensure LLMs don’t mix up facts from different people/companies.
- You solve problems end-to-end: Our team owns features vertically. You'll architect agent behaviors, build backend systems, optimize ML pipelines, and ship product features – often in the same week.
- You have a high bar for quality: In financial crime, "mostly working" isn't good enough. You obsess over edge cases, build robust error handling, and ship systems that institutions trust with billions in transactions.
- You want to push AI agent capabilities: We're at the frontier of what's possible with AI agents in production. You'll experiment with the latest models, design novel agentic workflows, and solve problems that don't have Stack Overflow answers.
- You communicate with clarity: We move fast with minimal process. You need to articulate tradeoffs, communicate blockers, and make technical decisions with limited information.
- You're energized by impact: Our customers protect the financial system from criminals. Your code directly prevents money laundering and terrorism financing. That matters.
- You hate meetings : You would much rather focus your time on building, being productive, and shipping code
- Intro call (fit & motivation)
- Technical screening / take-home
- Deep-dive technical interview (no live coding)
- Short paid in-person trial
- Offer 🎉