Senior AI Engineer (Origination Teams)
Origination Senior AI Engineer (Finance Experience Required) Origination function, global alt asset manager
Conquer AI is hiring a Senior AI Engineer on behalf of one of our clients, a global alternative asset manager building a brand new AI capability inside their Origination team.
📍 London, 4 days onsite
📄 12 months, Outside IR35
💷 Day rate DOE
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The brief
Work directly with a Partner to build the AI systems behind how the firm sources, shapes and wins deals. First hire in, you set the technical direction, the patterns and the bar.
What you'll actually build
• Production RAG and agentic systems over deal docs, sponsor data and market intel
• LLM pipelines with real grounding, evaluation, citation traceability and refusal logic, not chatbots that hallucinate at a Partner
• Hybrid retrieval (dense + sparse), proper chunking for structured content, calibrated confidence signals
• LangGraph orchestration, tool calling, MCP-style integrations across internal systems
• Full stack delivery, backend, data, integrations, the UI the deal team actually uses
Stack
Python, Java/.NET, SQL, Azure (preferred), Kafka, microservices, Docker, CI/CD
LLMs, RAG, vector DBs (Pinecone, pgvector, etc.), LangChain/LangGraph, embeddings, fine-tuning (LoRA/QLoRA welcome)
Bonus: Kubernetes, DealCloud or Salesforce integration
What we need from you
• 8+ years hands-on full stack
• Real production AI/LLM experience, you've shipped systems, debugged them at 2am, and have opinions about why fixed-token chunking destroys table data
• Capital markets or front-office tech background, IB, PE, alt assets, hedge funds
• Direct exposure to origination, coverage or deal teams (not just "worked at a bank")
• Strong client/stakeholder presence, you can hold a room with senior business stakeholders
Particularly relevant experience
We'd be especially interested in people who have worked on:
• Financial services or other complex regulated environments
• Workflow-heavy internal platforms
• Pipeline, approval, or operational decision-support systems
• CRM and enterprise data integrations, including Salesforce or DealCloud
• Systems where auditability, governance, and data controls really matter
The filter
The client has been clear: business domain fluency is non-negotiable. Brilliant AI engineers without front-office context aren't right for this one. If you can speak deal pipeline and ship production LLM systems, we want to talk.
Why join Conquer AI
At Conquer AI, we build and deploy AI and software systems into real enterprise workflows. We work closely with clients on high-value problems, moving from ambiguity to working systems quickly. That means we need engineers who are commercially aware, technically strong, and comfortable owning delivery.
This role is ideal for someone who enjoys building real systems, working closely with stakeholders, and operating in environments where quality, speed, and sound judgement all matter.
If that sounds like you, we'd like to hear from you.