Product & Technical Co-Founder CPTO AI Compliance Platform

Building an explainable AI platform for compliance automation in U.S. wealth management, replacing manual review processes with AI judgments that cite regulations and produce audit-ready evidence.

Location: Remote (US)

Responsibilities

• Establish core architecture, engineering culture, and security posture including SOC 2 readiness, tenant isolation, encryption, and audit logging.
• Ship a marketing review prototype into production with a design partner early adopter, then deliver communications surveillance, trading oversight, audit-ready logs and reporting; release GA v1 covering all core modules except regulatory filings within 9 months, and expand into regulatory filings and enterprise integrations through 18 months.
• Own the training and constant evolution of the core AI/LLM model, delivering robust and highly reliable analysis.
• Own the explainability layer that produces audit-ready evidence on demand, and the reliability engineering that ensures the platform performs consistently in the field.
• Represent the company in front of all customer constituencies and third-party interests, as well as investors, as the technical voice of the venture.
• Convert pilots into ten paying customers and reach $1M ARR within 18 months, partnering with the CEO on conversion and fundraising.
• Recruit and lead the founding engineering and applied AI team, and establish the cultural foundation of the company.

Requirements

• Shipped LLM-powered systems into production environments where incorrect outputs carried real consequences — not prototypes or demonstrations.
• Full-stack confidence across applied LLMs, RAG, retrieval, deterministic rules engines, human-in-the-loop workflows, observability, and secure multi-tenant SaaS (SOC 2, tenant isolation, encryption, audit logging).
• Well-formed convictions about explainability and reliability engineering, developed through direct production experience.
• Preference for systems that perform consistently in the field over systems that demonstrate well in controlled settings.
• Prepared to operate as a principal — setting the technical agenda, making decisive calls under uncertainty, and owning the outcomes that follow.
• Prior founder, founding engineer, or early-stage technical leadership experience (strongly preferred).
• Background in legal tech, RegTech, fintech compliance, healthcare, or another high-trust regulated vertical (preferred).
• Familiarity with the U.S. wealth management ecosystem, including SEC and FINRA workflows, marketing review, communications surveillance, and trade monitoring (preferred).
• Direct experience self-hosting or privately deploying foundation models (preferred).

Additional Information

• This is a co-founder role with founder-level equity, authority, and decision rights, including a potential board or board-observer seat.