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Founding AI Engineer - Manhattan Labs
Pear VC
Palo Alto, California, United States
Source: Pear VC careers · View original posting
Employer job description
From Pear VC's posting. “We” and “our” refer to the employer.
About the team
We’re building the AI-native compliance platform for community banks and financial institutions.
Regulatory pressure is intensifying. Financial crime is becoming more sophisticated. Compliance teams are overwhelmed by manual workflows and fragmented systems. Community banks, despite managing billions in assets, lack the tooling to keep up.
We’re building the intelligence layer that changes that: a system that can answer questions like
“What is our exposure to this entity across all customers?”
- with a defensible, auditable answer.
Our team includes engineers and researchers from Stanford, Carnegie Mellon, and IIT Madras, and we’re backed by Tier 1 investors and experienced operators who understand the massive opportunity in modernizing financial crime compliance with AI.
Learn more at https://manhattanlabs.co/.
Description of the role
This is a true founding engineer role
. You won’t just ship features - you’ll define the system.
You’ll architect and build an AI-native platform that operates as the investigative brain for compliance teams. This includes agentic reasoning systems, large-scale document ingestion, and user-facing tools that must stand up to regulatory scrutiny.