About the role

As one of our first engineers, you'll shape the technical foundation of Socratix AI (YC S25). We build AI agents that investigate fraud and financial crime for banks, credit unions, and leading fintechs — agents that reason through real cases, gather evidence across systems, and produce decisions that stand up to regulators.

You'll design and ship production AI agents that fraud and compliance teams rely on every day, collaborate directly with founders on product strategy, and partner with both large enterprises and cutting-edge fintechs.

This is a high-impact role with massive scope for growth — you won't just be building features, you'll be defining how agentic AI transforms financial crime operations.

What You’ll Do

Build agents end to end: LLM orchestration, tool use across a growing set of MCP integrations, retrieval, and multi-agent workflows that automate real investigations.
Own the layer that makes agents trustworthy — eval harnesses, guardrails, audit trails, human-in-the-loop review. When your agent decides, a bank acts on it.
Ship fast and close to users: code in prod your first week, direct customer contact, your work catching actual fraud.Design and deliver production-grade AI agents.
Experiment relentlessly. New models, new techniques, new tooling — you'll have license to try everything and keep what wins.
Turn frontier into product. You'll spend real time probing what the newest models can do, then ship the parts that survive contact with real fraud cases
Shape roadmap and strategy with the founders. Small team, zero bureaucracy, maximum ownership.

What We’re Looking For

A systems thinker. You reason about the whole machine — data flow, failure modes, latency, cost, what breaks at 10x — not just the function you're writing. Agents are distributed systems with a nondeterministic component in the middle; if that framing excites you, keep reading.
You've shipped real things with LLMs — production systems, prototypes with users, obsessive side projects.
Deep engineering fundamentals. Frameworks are details you pick up in a weekend (we're mostly Python on AWS). What matters is that you can design, ship, debug, and operate a production system end to end.
0 → 1 builder. Ambiguity and speed energize you instead of stressing you out.
Roughly 2–4 years of engineering experience — or a portfolio that makes that line irrelevant.
Prior experience in startups is a plus
Curiosity about fintech, fraud, or building AI where the stakes are real and regulated.

Benefits

We believe in generous, top-tier compensation and benefits:

Competitive salary and equity benchmarked to top tech companies.
Paid meals during workdays.
100% health, dental, and vision coverage.
Hybrid schedule - in-office 3 days a week.
Commuter Benefits
Unlimited PTO.

About Socratix AI

Socratix AI builds AI coworkers for fraud and risk teams—agents that investigate alerts in real time and replace manual workflows with fast, explainable decisions. Our agents integrate seamlessly into existing workflows and reason across signals like human analysts, helping teams cut fraud losses, reduce false positives, and scale operations without increasing headcount.

Since launch, we’ve seen strong market traction, closing multiple six-figure contracts. Now, we’re growing quickly to keep pace with demand and are excited to expand our founding team in the San Francisco Bay Area. If you’re passionate about building at the frontier of AI and financial security, we’d love to have you on the journey.

Who We Are

We’ve seen this problem firsthand. At DoorDash, Riya built intelligent fraud detection and investigation tools that saved the company $30M+ annually, and at Unit21, she created products that enabled analysts to work 3× faster. At Cruise, Satya scaled AI systems to handle petabytes of data, and at LinkedIn, he launched enterprise products from 0 → 1, generating millions in new revenue.

Together, we bring deep expertise in fraud and AI (MIT, IIT, UCLA alumni). We’re backed by Y Combinator, Pear VC, and founders/operators from DoorDash, Gusto, Square, OpenAI, and Roblox.

Our mission: to build AI coworkers that transform how fraud and risk teams operate.

Our Culture: F.O.R.C.E.

We believe the right culture builds unstoppable teams. At Socratix, our values spell F.O.R.C.E. — the driving force behind everything we do:

First Principles – We start from truth, not tradition, and solve problems in original ways.
Ownership – What you work on is yours to elevate; we take accountability and act with confidence.
Relentlessness – We finish what we start, turning obstacles into breakthroughs.
Customer First – Every decision is measured by one standard: does this make our customers’ lives easier?
Empathy – We respect differing perspectives, design for human needs, and build trust that lasts.

Socratix AI

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