Head of Applied AI
CatenaAgentic Finance company
RemoteDirector
Acrew Capital
Breyer Capital
General Catalyst
QED Investors
Oak HC/FT
a16z crypto
Data & AI
About the role
TL;DR
Lead AI Platform team, set technical direction for AI across Catena.
- •We're looking for a Head of Applied AI to lead our AI Platform team.
- •This role combines AI engineering and data science.
- •You'll build systems directly while setting technical direction for how AI works across Catena.
- •Key Responsibilities Own the orchestration layer connecting product experiences to banking infrastructure Establish eval frameworks that prove our agents are reliable Stay ahead of emerging agent protocols (A2A, x402, MCP, LangGraph) and integrate where it strengthens our infrastructure Partner closely with Product Development and Banking Core to ensure AI capabilities are deeply integrated Hire and develop AI engineers and data scientists as the team grows Requirements Deep experience shipping production AI systems Strong intuition for model selection, eval methodology, and build-vs-buy tradeoffs Security-minded.
- •You understand prompt injection, adversarial inputs, and why these matter more when money is involved.
- •Comfortable with ambiguity, able to set direction while shipping
Required skills
PythonTypeScriptAgile
Domain expertise
fintech
Tech stack
PythonTypeScriptAWS