Founding AI engineer

The Role: Founding AI EngineerLocation: Bangalore (on-site)About the CompanyInCommon is hiring on behalf of a seed-stage consumer fintech building an AI-first personal finance app for India - a premium, conversational alternative to the dashboard products that dominate the category. The thesis is that most people don't deploy their money well, not because the information is missing, but because it's buried in charts that assume you already know what to look for. The product reads a user's full financial context and tells them what matters, proactively.You'll own the intelligence layer of the product. Corpus works by combining what it knows about a user with a knowledge base of financial information, routed through a set of specialist agents - one for mutual fund advisory, one for tax, one for stocks, and more over time. Your job is to make that system actually work, and keep it working as it gets more complex.This is a founding-team seat. You're not tuning an existing pipeline - you're building the one the company runs on.What you'll doBuild and iterate on the prompting layer of the core answering engineSet up evaluation infrastructure so the team can move fast on prompt and model changes without regressing qualityDesign and build the agent orchestration layer - routing, multi-agent pipelines, and handoffs between specialist agentsWork on tool calling: what to expose, how to handle failure modes, how to manage context when multiple tool calls are in flightConnect the financial knowledge base to the user context layer through the orchestration layerWhat we're looking for3 - 6 years building applied AI products, ideally in a zero-to-one settingReal, hands-on prompt engineering experience - shipped and iterated against evals, not just experimented in a notebookExperience setting up agent harnesses; strong grasp of tool calling and where it breaksUnderstanding of context management in multi-agent systemsComfortable in an unstructured environment with no playbookBonus: deployment and infra exposure (EC2, keeping services running)