Lead AI Engineer

Chronic Capital is an investment bank raising debt and equity for lower-middle-market companies. The Lead AI Engineer will serve as the firm’s founding technical hire, setting architecture and building production AI systems and internal tools used across the business.

Responsibilities:

• Design and build production AI systems from architecture through deployment and ongoing iteration
• Build agentic workflows that complete multistep tasks, with human review and approval where it matters
• Integrate internal applications and third-party data sources through APIs, connectors, and data pipelines
• Build retrieval and search across structured and unstructured firm data
• Ship internal tools that non-technical users rely on daily
• Implement security, access controls, audit logging, and governance appropriate for a regulated financial firm
• Own model, infrastructure, and build-vs-buy decisions, and the technical roadmap