Founding AI Engineer – Internal Copilot Platform at Ondo Finance
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Jul 25, 2026
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Jul 26, 2026
What this job asks for AI summary
A senior individual contributor role focused on designing and building an internal AI platform used across the company to automate workflows and surface information. The work spans backend services, data pipelines, and lightweight interfaces, with practical application of large language models and retrieval systems. The position suits an experienced backend or full-stack engineer comfortable working autonomously with a path toward owning the platform as it grows.
Senior level · 6+ years · Remote · Full-time
“or” means any one of them counts — you don't need all of them.
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How this req sits in the market our data
Roughly 18,400 people nationally plausibly meet what this posting asks for (software developers). range 11,100–27,700
Applicant volume Moderate — A normal amount of company. The rare requirements below are what will separate a shortlisted application from the rest.
Rare in this occupation — lead with these, and say what you built with them.
What the occupation pays Median $138,970 (middle half $107,524–$175,762).
Estimated from BLS employment for this occupation and area, per-skill prevalence across our listing corpus, and published wage benchmarks — as of Jul 28, 2026. It is a model, not a headcount.
Why we read it this way (8)
Experience range is stated as '6–12+ years', so the overall years minimum is set to 6 (the lower bound).
The posting mentions 'LLM APIs, retrieval systems, automation frameworks' as examples under the requirements section — these are treated as a single hard-gated capability cluster. LLMs and RAG are extracted as the concrete named technologies; 'automation frameworks' is too generic to emit as a named skill.
'Data pipelines' and 'backend development' are captured as required based on explicit requirements-section language ('scalable services, data pipelines, and integrations'; 'backend or full-stack software engineer').
Slack and Notion appear in the 'first 6 months' illustrative examples and the Nice-to-haves section, not in the hard requirements block — treated as preferred.
Claude, OpenAI, and Copilot are listed under Nice to haves as examples of AI tooling familiarity — treated as preferred, with alternatives populated from the same list.
'Agent frameworks' appears under Nice to haves with no specific product named; no alternatives added as no single canonical substitute exists.
Compensation includes salary, future token rights, and/or equity but no specific figures are disclosed.
Ignored 1 non-technology phrase(s) as skills (responsibilities/concepts, not named tools): backend development.
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