Principal AI Engineer, Figure

$176-220k

+ Equity + Company quarterly performance based bonus

AWS

GCP

Python

Kotlin

Hadoop

Spark

Hive

TUNE

Senior and Expert level

San Francisco Bay Area

More information about location

Blockchain-powered digital lender

Job no longer available

Blockchain-powered digital lender

501-1000 employees

FintechB2CPersonal financeMortgagesLendingInvestingBlockchain

Job no longer available

$176-220k

+ Equity + Company quarterly performance based bonus

AWS

GCP

Python

Kotlin

Hadoop

Spark

Hive

TUNE

Senior and Expert level

San Francisco Bay Area

More information about location

501-1000 employees

FintechB2CPersonal financeMortgagesLendingInvestingBlockchain

Company mission

To transform financial services through blockchain, bringing speed, efficiency and savings to both consumers and institutions.

Job

Company

Role

Who you are

8+ years of hands on experience building and deploying NLP and ML models in real world production systems
Hands-on experience training, fine tuning, and/or deploying LLMs
Experience developing in Kotlin or a background in consumer finance is a huge plus
Strong problem solving skills with an emphasis on translating real-life problems into a concrete model development strategy. Blend academic rigor with a sense of pragmatism for rapidly prototyping and delivering solutions
Experienced in using Python for analysis and modeling
Experience using web services (GCP, AWS), and distributed data/computing tools (Ray, Spark, Map/Reduce, Hadoop, Hive, etc.)
Excellent cross-functional communication skills
Ability to thrive in a fast-paced environment

What the job involves

Develop and optimize generative AI technologies to streamline, automate, and optimize Figure
Train, fine tune, and deploy LLM solutions trained on our expansive proprietary data
Develop custom models and algorithms to apply to large datasets, as well as processes for monitoring and analyzing their performance
Mine and analyze data to build and train ML models that optimize customer experiences, customer acquisition, underwriting and other business outcomes
Work with stakeholders throughout the organization to identify opportunities for leveraging AI to improve business processes
Collaborate cross functionally to deploy AI solutions and monitor outcomes

Our take

Figure is the largest non-bank provider of home equity lines of credit, disrupting the lending industry with its blockchain platform, Provenance. The platform works as a registry, ledger, and exchange; handling loans, mortgaging, private credit and private investment.

The company is one of few that offers users the option to leverage their cryptocurrency assets to get loans or mortgages. Betting heavily on the cryptocurrency market has presented both its ups and downs for Figure, but a successful IPO in 2025 suggests its position nowadays is steady.

As digital assets continue to gain mainstream acceptance, there should be ample opportunity for Figure to expand its reach in the future. The company's IPO was supported by Goldman Sachs, Jefferies and BofA Securities, and raised an impressive $787.5 million.

Freddie

Company Specialist at Welcome to the Jungle

Insights

Led by a woman

Top investors

-15% employee growth in 12 months

Glassdoor (3.5)

Trustpilot (4.8)

Company

Funding (last 2 of 4 rounds)

May 2021

$200m

SERIES D

Dec 2019

$103m

SERIES C

Total funding: $418m

Company benefits

100% of premium costs for employees and dependents for medical, dental, and vision insurance
Reimbursement for approved continuing education (eligible employees)
10 company-wide holidays plus one personal holiday
Generous Flexible Time Away (FTA), Paid Time Off (PTO), and paid parental leave
Bonus plan (eligible employees)
Option to purchase a set number of shares of Figure's common stock (eligible employees)

Company HQ

Civic Center, New York, NY

Leadership

Mike Cagney

(Executive Chair & Co-founder)

After Master's at Stanford, Mike spent almost 6 years as Chairman of ReFlow Services and co-founding Social Finance in 2011. He used this experience to co-found Figure in January 2018, serving since as CEO.

June Ou

(President & Co-founder)

Having studied at Stanford and founded CCO Solutions, June spent 5 years at Social Finance with Mike, rising to VP of Product Management. She left this position in October 2017 to co-found Figure the following January.

Michael B. Tannenbaum

(CEO)

Board Member at Cherry and Brex, at the latter of which they previously served as CFO/CBO and then COO. Was also CRO at SoFi.

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