Founding Machine Learning Engineer
Trove
Job Summary
Trove is developing an AI associate for financial firms, aiming to deliver associate-level AGI. They have raised nearly $10M and have strong initial traction with large enterprise contracts. This role offers high impact, shaping product and culture, with significant equity (0.5%+) and competitive cash compensation ($175K - $300K). The founding team is highly talented, including a founding engineer from Glean and a top performer from Bain’s Private Equity group.
Must Have
- Push the frontier of GenAI applications by delivering human-level capabilities
- Design and build novel knowledge graphs algorithms to power search and retrieval over unstructured and structured firm data
- Collaborate with the top AI labs and elite financial firms to design reliable AI-native systems
- Track record of extraordinary ability
- 3 - 8 years of software engineering experience
- Excitement to work in person 4 days a week in SF
Good to Have
- Experience with LLMs
- Experience with search and retrieval
- Previous work at a financial firm
Perks & Benefits
- Shape the product and culture from day one
- 0.5%+ equity
- $175K - 300K cash compensation
- Be a part of a great founding team in SF
Job Description
About Trove
- Trove is developing an AI associate for financial firms - think enterprise search & agents for private equity, hedge funds, and banks
- Our mission is to deliver associate‑level AGI
- We’ve raised nearly $10M from Menlo and Khosla Ventures
- We have strong initial traction - large enterprise contracts and user engagement on par with best-in-class B2B AI applications
Why this role?
- High impact: You’ll shape the product and culture from day one. Expect to dive into unsolved challenges at the Gen AI application frontier – enterprise‑scale data retrieval, autonomous agents, and knowledge graphs.
- High equity: 0.5%+ equity. $175K - 300K cash. You will own a meaningful piece of the company.
- High talent density: Be a part of a great founding team in SF.
- Shivaal Roy (CTO) was a founding engineer at Glean ($100M+ ARR today) and managed the Assistant and Search teams, where he solved similar problems.
- Danny Goldman (CEO) was a top performer at Bain’s Private Equity group
What you’ll do
- Push the frontier of GenAI applications by delivering human-level capabilities
- Design and build novel knowledge graphs algorithms to power search and retrieval over unstructured and structured firm data
- Collaborate with the top AI labs and elite financial firms to design reliable AI-native systems
Who you are
- Track record of extraordinary ability
- 3 - 8 years of software engineering experience
- Excitement to work in person 4 days a week in SF
- Nice but not required: experience with LLMs, search and retrieval, previous work at a financial firm
Compensation Range: $175K - $300K
3 Skills Required For This Role
Game Texts
Algorithms
Machine Learning