Product & Technical Co-founder (CPTO) - AI Compliance Platform
Core
Building an explainable AI platform that reasons like a senior compliance officer to replace manual review in marketing, communications, trading, policy, audit, and filings for U.S. RIAs, broker-dealers, and wealth fintechs.
Role type
Co-founder & CPTO (hands-on IC with strategy & mentorship)
Builds
An explainable AI platform for compliance review and surveillance
Domain
RegTech / Fintech Compliance / Applied AI
Deliverable
production ML models | product features
Required skills
Applied LLMs, RAG, retrieval, deterministic rules engines, human-in-the-loop workflows, observability, secure multi-tenant SaaS, SOC 2 readiness, tenant isolation, encryption, audit logging, reliability engineering, explainability engineering
Preferred skills
Prior founder or founding engineer experience, background in legal tech/RegTech/fintech compliance/healthcare, familiarity with U.S. wealth management ecosystem (SEC/FINRA workflows), direct experience self-hosting or privately deploying foundation models
Technologies
LLMs, RAG, deterministic rules engines, secure multi-tenant SaaS
Responsibilities
Establish core architecture and engineering culture, ship marketing review prototype and communications surveillance, own training and evolution of core AI/LLM model, own explainability layer for audit-ready evidence, represent company to customers and investors as technical voice, convert pilots to paying customers and reach $1M ARR, recruit and lead founding engineering and applied AI team
Seniority
Co-founder, principal technical leadership