AI Data Engineer for Private Credit

We are representing a high-performing boutique private credit investment firm building proprietary AI capability internally.

They are not hiring a data support analyst.

They are hiring the engineer who will help build the AI backbone of an investment platform.

This role is for the top 5% of early-career engineers who want ownership, commercial exposure, and the chance to build systems that directly influence capital allocation decisions.

The Mandate

Design and build the data infrastructure that will power:

  • AI-assisted underwriting
  • Portfolio risk surveillance
  • Automated covenant monitoring
  • LLM-driven document intelligence
  • Proprietary credit analytics

You will work directly with investors deploying capital — not in a siloed tech team.

Your work will influence live investment decisions.

What Makes This Different

  • No legacy bureaucracy
  • No passive dashboard maintenance
  • Direct access to decision-makers
  • High accountability
  • Visible impact

This is a build environment.

The firm is early in its AI journey. The right candidate will shape architecture, tooling, and standards.

What You’ll Actually Do

  • Build scalable ETL/ELT pipelines from loan systems and financial data
  • Structure complex borrower reporting (financial statements, PDFs, credit memos)
  • Design clean datasets for predictive credit risk models
  • Enable LLM/RAG pipelines for document intelligence
  • Implement data quality, validation, and monitoring frameworks
  • Partner with credit investors to translate underwriting logic into data systems

This is production engineering in a high-stakes financial environment.

Who We’re Looking For

You are likely:

  • 1–3 years into your engineering career
  • Strong in Python and SQL
  • Comfortable working in cloud environments (AWS/GCP/Azure)
  • Experienced building real pipelines — not just notebooks
  • Curious about how financial systems actually work

Bonus points for:

  • Exposure to ML workflows
  • Familiarity with dbt, Airflow, Docker
  • Experience handling financial or semi-structured data
  • Interest in LLM infrastructure and vector databases

Finance background is not required.

Intellectual horsepower and ownership mentality are.

This Role Is Not For You If

  • You prefer clearly defined, low-risk task lists
  • You want heavy supervision
  • You are uncomfortable working directly with senior stakeholders
  • You are looking for a purely academic ML role

Upside

  • Direct learning from investors
  • Rapid technical growth
  • Path toward AI Engineer / ML Engineer / Quant Data roles
  • High visibility within a compact, performance-driven firm
  • Compensation aligned to performance

This is an opportunity to build proprietary AI systems inside a capital allocation business — early.

For the right engineer, this is career-accelerating.

Job Details

Company
Winston Fox
Location
London Area, United Kingdom
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