Founding AI Engineer

Helmsted REMOTE (US)

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Posted 02 Nov 2026

Last seen 02 Nov 2026

Location REMOTE (US)

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Grade D

Why this grade This listing scored 52/100, which is a D. It lost the most ground on pay transparency. See the breakdown

Freshness 15 / 15 How recently it was posted. Older postings are likelier to be filled or abandoned.
Remote clarity 15 / 15 Whether "remote" means anywhere, or is quietly restricted to one country.
Description depth 14 / 20 How much the posting actually says about the work, measured in characters of real text.
Corroboration 5 / 10 Whether more than one source carries this listing.
Role specificity 3 / 10 Whether the listing is tagged well enough to tell what the role actually is.
Pay transparency 0 / 25 A published salary range, worth more than any other single factor because it is what a candidate cannot find out without applying.

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$167k – $275k

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Helmsted is the AI-native operating system for wealth advisors of complex households: planning, tax and estate analysis, meetings and the client portal, run by agents that do the work. Small team, live with pilot firms, shipping daily.
You'd build the agents and the intelligence behind them with our CTO: evals and systems that improve from their own usage, long-term memory, retrieval over millions of documents, model routing and cost, and secure, permissioned access to client data. Fintech experience is a plus, not a requirement.
Remote in the US today, with eventual relocation as the team centralizes. Paid sick leave; health insurance and 401(k) under discussion. Applications accepted on an ongoing basis.
To apply, email [email protected] with a resume and short answers to the questions in the full JD: https://helmsted.ai/careers/helmsted-founding-ai-engineer.pdf

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