Founding Machine Learning Engineer
About Mako
Mako 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: 0.75%+ 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
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