AI Engineer

As an AI Engineer at Phantom, you'll help shape how AI is adopted and scaled across the company. You'll build internal AI tools, integrations, and automation that enable teams to work smarter, move faster, and operate more efficiently. This is a hands-on engineering role focused on turning emerging AI capabilities into practical, reliable solutions that drive meaningful business impact. You'll partner closely with teams across the organization to identify opportunities, build AI-powered workflows, and establish the technical foundations that make AI accessible, secure, and scalable.

What you'll do

• Design, develop, and deploy AI-powered tools, agents, and automation that streamline workflows and solve real business problems across the organization.
• Connect LLMs and AI applications with internal systems, APIs, and enterprise tools to enable seamless, intelligent workflows.
• Build and maintain the underlying infrastructure, services, and integrations that support reliable AI applications across teams.
• Partner with stakeholders to identify opportunities for AI, translate business needs into technical solutions, and empower teams to leverage AI tools effectively.
• Develop reusable components, frameworks, and tooling that make it easier for teams to build, customize, and maintain their own AI workflows.
• Implement appropriate access controls, monitoring, observability, and operational safeguards to ensure AI solutions are secure, reliable, and maintainable.
• Monitor model performance, usage, and costs while identifying opportunities to improve efficiency, quality, and business outcomes.
• Stay current with emerging AI technologies, evaluate new models and frameworks, and identify practical opportunities to bring new capabilities into the organization.

What you bring

• A strong software engineering background with experience building and maintaining production applications, services, or internal platforms.
• Hands-on experience developing applications using LLMs such as OpenAI, Anthropic Claude, or open-source models.
• Proficiency in Python, TypeScript, or similar programming languages, with experience integrating APIs and building backend services.
• Experience building AI agents, workflow automation, or applications that leverage LLM orchestration frameworks.
• Familiarity with retrieval-augmented generation (RAG), tool calling, structured outputs, prompt engineering, and modern AI application patterns.
• Experience integrating applications with enterprise tools, internal systems, and third-party APIs.
• An understanding of cloud infrastructure, deployment practices, monitoring, and production reliability.
• A strong product mindset with the ability to translate ambiguous business problems into practical technical solutions.
• The ability to work independently, take ownership of projects, and collaborate effectively with both technical and non-technical stakeholders.
• A genuine interest in AI and a bias toward experimentation, execution, and measurable impact.

Nice to have

• Experience building internal AI platforms or enterprise AI automation solutions.
• Familiarity with AI coding tools, agent frameworks, and orchestration platforms.
• Experience with technologies such as LangChain, LangGraph, Claude Agent SDK, or similar frameworks.
• Experience with MCP, enterprise connectors, and AI tool integrations.
• Familiarity with LLM observability, evaluation frameworks, cost optimization, and usage analytics.
• Experience implementing security, governance, and access controls for enterprise AI applications.
• Experience working in a fast-growing technology company where speed, ownership, and adaptability are essential.

What we offer

• Competitive salary and equity
• Comprehensive insurance (medical, dental, vision) with base plan 100% covered
• Flexible hours and a long-standing, supportive remote environment
• Unlimited vacation
• 401(k) retirement plan
• Wellness stipend
• Weekly meal stipend
• Learning and Development stipend
• Remote and work-from-home setup stipend

About Phantom

Phantom is a mission-driven fintech company helping tens of millions of people worldwide access global markets including perpetuals, prediction markets, tokenized assets, stablecoins, and cryptocurrencies. With self-custody and access to open networks at its core, Phantom lets users control their financial moves in one app. The company ranks number one in Google Play's finance category and is backed by a $150M Series C investment from a16z, Sequoia Capital, and Paradigm.