AI Engineer

Description

We are a well-funded, early-stage startup on a mission to guide the world's money. AI sits at the center of everything we build — from conversational interfaces that surface financial insights, to intelligent agents that categorize and enrich transaction data. To accelerate this, we are hiring an AI Engineer to build and scale our GenAI-powered products from day zero.

Are you passionate about building with large language models in production? Do you thrive in high-growth environments where you can shape both the technical architecture and the team? Do you want to define how AI transforms financial decision-making for modern treasury teams? Then we'd love to hear from you.

About Palm

At Palm, data is at the foundation of everything we do. We're building a sophisticated application that helps enterprises make smarter financial decisions. You will get the opportunity to build GenAI-powered features that sit at the heart of our product — from our conversational AI assistant, to intelligent categorization agents, to LLM evaluation frameworks that ensure quality at scale. This role is your chance to architect and build out AI capabilities that will help us scale from being a challenger in the market to a leader in the enterprise treasury space.

This role isn't about experimenting in notebooks — it's about building production AI systems. You'll work directly with our leadership team to define our GenAI strategy, establish best practices, and create the foundation for our AI-driven products.

We are defined by our values:

• Speak with Courage: We make pragmatic technical decisions and own the outcomes.
• Lead with Curiosity: We explore new AI patterns and technologies to stay ahead.
• Work with Heart: We embrace the complexity of financial data and turn it into clarity.
  
  

You'll be working side by side with product, ML engineers, and customer operations, with a clear path to technical leadership as we scale.

How will you make an impact?

• Build and evolve Palm Pulse, our conversational AI assistant powered by Claude, including streaming responses, tool use, and conversation memory.
• Design and maintain intelligent categorization agents that use multi-provider LLM routing (Anthropic, OpenAI, Vertex AI) to automatically classify financial transactions at scale.
• Be at the forefront of using AI-assisted workflows.
• Build and improve our prompt optimization system, using evolutionary algorithms to continuously improve categorization quality.
• Own our LLM evaluation framework to ensure quality doesn't regress as models and prompts evolve.
• Develop agent workflows with multi-round tool use, MCP protocol integration, and function calling patterns.
• Build and manage our AI infrastructure through infrastructure as code and support other engineers in their AI & backend needs.
• Drive engineering excellence through version control, CI/CD, testing, and reusable frameworks.
  
  

Where we work

Palm is a remote-first company, with team members across multiple locations. We value flexibility and believe the best work often happens outside the office.

That said, this is a core technical role. To build our AI platform collaboratively and support each other in a high-growth environment, we'll have regular in-person sessions with the engineering team and founders. We'll work together to determine the right cadence that supports both flexibility and collaboration.

Our wish list

Must-haves

• 3+ years in a backend or AI engineering role with strong Python experience.
• Proficiency in Python (FastAPI, async/await, streaming) since it powers our entire AI backend.
• Hands-on experience with LLM APIs — ideally across multiple providers.
• Comfortable with leveraging AI-assisted workflows and tools in the development process.
• Track record of building production AI features — not just prototypes, but systems that serve real users at scale.
• Experience with prompt engineering — structured output, tool definitions, and template management.
• Familiarity with agent and tool-use patterns — multi-round loops and function calling.
• Knows their way around PostgreSQL for conversation persistence and task queues, and BigQuery for analytics and data access.
• Experience with cloud platforms (GCP preferred), infrastructure as code, and cloud cost optimisation.
• A startup mindset — being scrappy, product-driven and comfortable with ambiguity.
• Strong ownership mentality with the ability to work independently but also collaboratively drive projects to completion.
  
  

Nice-to-haves

• Experience building LLM evaluation and quality assurance systems.
• Domain knowledge in fintech, financial data, or banking systems.
• Experience with Airflow or similar orchestration tools for scheduling AI workloads.
• Experience with Go.
• Prior experience in a rapid-growth scale-up/startup environment.
• Contributions to open-source AI/LLM tools or communities.
  
  

Benefits Of Working At Palm

• Travel 🛫 Meet all your new colleagues at quarterly off sites - the last 3 were in Berlin, Rotterdam & Marbella.
• Coworking Membership 🏰 Work from home is our go-to - we love spending time with friends and family instead of commuting. We have WeWork or Rivvia memberships for when you want to escape into the city.
• Stock Options 📈 Own a large chunk of Palm and reap the rewards as you help us grow the company to a global player.
• Career Growth 💫 Clear path to a Lead AI Engineer or Staff Engineer role as we scale.
• Impact 💥 Your achievements will define how AI transforms treasury — from categorization to conversational insights.
• Pension 🧑‍🌾 Everything you need to not worry about life after work.
• Health Insurance 🩺 Best-in-class local insurances to help you get treatment quickly whenever you may need it.
• Wellness Stipend 💆🏾 500 EUR in annual wellness benefits - gyms, massages, you name it.
• Time Off 🏝️ 30 paid holidays for you to take time to recharge and relax.
• Homeoffice Stipend 💻 500 EUR to upgrade your home office
  
  

Research shows that women and underrepresented groups only apply when they meet 100% of the criteria. We're not looking for perfection - if you're passionate about the role and have most of the skills, please apply!