Associate AI Engineer

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About Figure 

Figure (NASDAQ: FIGR) is transforming capital markets through blockchain. We’re proving that blockchain isn’t just theory - it’s powering real products used by hundreds of thousands of consumers and institutions. 

By combining blockchain’s transparency and efficiency with AI-driven automation, we’ve reimagined how loans are originated, funded, and traded in secondary markets. From faster processing times to lower costs and reduced bias, our technology is helping borrowers, investors, and financial institutions achieve better outcomes.

Together with our 170+ partners, we’ve originated over $22 billion in home equity loans (HELOCs) on our blockchain-native platform, making Figure the largest non-bank provider of home equity financing in the U.S. Figure’s ecosystem also includes YLDS, an SEC-registered yield-bearing stablecoin that operates as a tokenized money market fund, and several other products and platforms that are reshaping consumer finance and capital markets. 

We’re proud to be recognized as one of Forbes’ Most Innovative Fintech Startups in 2025 and Fast Company’s Most Innovative Companies in Finance and Personal Finance .

About the Role 

Figure's AI Engineering team builds and operates production AI systems that improve operational efficiency, customer experience, risk management, and decision quality.

We're hiring an Associate AI Engineer to help operate and improve our conversational AI systems while developing into a full-stack AI engineer.

Initially, approximately half of your work will focus on the technical operation of AI-powered chat, voice, and customer-support services. You will bring engineering rigor to agent workflows, API integrations, testing, analytics, knowledge retrieval, security, and production releases.

The other half will consist of hands-on projects across our broader AI stack. With coaching from senior engineers, you will build Python services, APIs, data pipelines, evaluations, and internal tools supporting production AI systems.

This role is well suited to someone who combines analytical depth with practical programming ability. You may come from software engineering, economics, another quantitative social science, data science, or a similarly rigorous field. We care more about demonstrated reasoning and engineering ability than a particular degree or conventional career path.

This is not a content-management or prompt-writing position. You will help operate conversational AI as product…

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