Head of Applied AI

Asseta is an accounting-centric platform that provides AI-powered financial operations software for family offices and investment firms. The Head of Applied AI will lead the development and delivery of AI capabilities across the product, while writing code, setting technical direction, building AI services, and leading a growing team.

Responsibilities:

• Design and ship AI features that automate accounting, reporting, and reconciliation tasks for family offices
• Build production AI services in Python, using FastAPI and our microservice architecture
• Design retrieval pipelines on Postgres and OpenSearch to ground model output in client financial data
• Evaluate and select models, vendors, and infrastructure for production use
• Build evaluation frameworks that measure accuracy, cost, and latency before a feature ships
• Partner with Product to turn client pain points into AI-driven solutions
• Set technical standards for prompt design, fine-tuning, and retrieval-augmented generation across the platform
• Work with Engineering to deploy and scale AI workloads on AWS
• Collaborate with frontend engineers to ship AI experiences in our React and TypeScript application
• Present AI strategy and results to the executive team and, when needed, to clients