Founding AI Engineer - Manhattan Labs

About the team

We’re building the AI-native compliance platform for community banks and financial institutions.

Regulatory pressure is intensifying. Financial crime is becoming more sophisticated. Compliance teams are overwhelmed by manual workflows and fragmented systems. Community banks, despite managing billions in assets, lack the tooling to keep up.

We’re building the intelligence layer that changes that: a system that can answer questions like
“What is our exposure to this entity across all customers?”
- with a defensible, auditable answer.

Our team includes engineers and researchers from Stanford, Carnegie Mellon, and IIT Madras, and we’re backed by Tier 1 investors and experienced operators who understand the massive opportunity in modernizing financial crime compliance with AI.

Learn more at https://manhattanlabs.co/

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Description of the role

This is a true founding engineer role. You won’t just ship features - you’ll define the system.

You’ll architect and build an AI-native platform that operates as