AI Engineering Lead – Agentic AI Innovation

Role: AI Engineering Lead – Agentic AI Innovation

Location: LatAm

Investors:

Goldman Sachs Asset Management

FinTech Collective

Cometa

Company Overview

Created in 2019, Simetrik is a robust B2B platform powered by no code and generative AI. It empowers financial and operational teams by allowing them to automate all reconciliations from start to finish, and anticipate and manage risks all on a single, intuitive, and robust interface inspired by spreadsheets. 

Simetrik has established itself as a market leader in Latin America, handling two-thirds of the region’s transactions. Its clientele includes prominent institutions such as PayU, Mercado Libre, Rappi, PagSeguro, Falabella, Oxxo, Itaú, and Nubank, and partnerships with leading firms like Deloitte. Expanding its international reach, Simetrik has also successfully penetrated key Asian markets, serving clients in India and Singapore. The company's global footprint spans over 35 countries, monitoring over 200 million records daily.

Executive Team

Alejandro Casas Caro 

Co-Founder & CEO

Santiago Gómez 

Co-Founder & COO

Felipe Pardo

CFO

Sebastián Bezzo

VP of Revenue | Latam

What does success look like in this role?

We are looking for a senior technical leader to help scale Simetrik’s internal AI Innovation team—an elite, autonomous unit focused on building powerful, agentic AI use cases across the client portfolio’s CFO stack.

You’ll lead and mentor a squad of sharp junior prompt engineers while owning the technical architecture and roadmap for vertical AI agents. Your role bridges hands-on engineering with team and product leadership. You'll work directly with the team lead (Director of AI Innovation) and Simetrik founders to help offload managerial responsibilities and elevate the team’s execution to the next level.

This is a rare opportunity to shape AI-first products in a high-autonomy, high-impact environment at the forefront of applied AI.

What is the impact and scope of this position?

• You establish technical and process structure within the team without compromising speed or creativity.
• You mentor junior engineers, raising their quality bar and confidence while freeing up leadership bandwidth.
• You build AI agents that deliver measurable value to internal teams and clients in finance, reconciliation, and risk.
• You evolve Simetrik’s prompt and agent libraries into modular, reusable components.
• You become a trusted partner to product managers, engineers, and domain experts.

In this role you will

What are the key responsibilities of this role?

• Design, build, and ship AI agents for complex, finance-driven workflows.
• Lead technical discovery and architecture for vertical agents in a generative AI setting.
• Guide junior prompt engineers and shape their career development.
• Drive quality standards and rapid iteration cycles for agent performance and UX.
• Contribute to internal tooling, agent evaluation frameworks, and prompt optimization libraries.
• Collaborate closely with the Head of AI Innovation on roadmap planning and team structure.
• Champion experimentation and foster a culture of excellence and ownership.
  
  

Must Have

What does this person need in terms of competencies or skills to be successful?

• Proven experience building real-world AI/LLM-powered products or agents.
• Solid engineering foundation (e.g., backend development, ML infrastructure, or similar).
• Strong command of prompt engineering, LLM workflows, and agentic architectures.
• Experience mentoring or managing technical talent in fast-paced environments.
• Excellent communication and cross-functional collaboration skills.
• Comfortable navigating ambiguity and thriving in autonomous teams.
• Deep interest in building domain-specific AI systems for real business problems.
  
  

Nice to Have

• Experience in finance, accounting, or enterprise SaaS environments.
• Familiarity with AI agent frameworks, orchestration layers, or low-code AI pipelines.
• Exposure to experimentation platforms, structured evaluations, or RLHF workflows.
• Startup or innovation lab experience.
  
  

Qualifications

• Degree in Computer Science, Engineering, AI/ML, or equivalent practical experience.
  
  

Benefits

• Well-funded and proven startup with large ambitions and competitive salaries.
• Entrepreneurial culture where pushing limits, creating and collaborating is everyday business.  
• Open communication with management and company leadership.
• Small, dynamic teams = massive impact.
• 500USD a year for you to invest in learning.
  
  
  Simetrik considers qualified applicants for employment without regard to race, gender, age, color, religion, national origin, marital status, disability, sexual orientation, gender identity/expression, protected military/veteran status, or any other legally protected factor.
  
  

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Join a team of incredibly talented people that build things, are free to create, and love collaborating!