About Figure
Figure (NASDAQ: FIGR) is transforming capital markets through blockchain. We’re proving that blockchain isn’t just theory - it’s powering real products used by hundreds of thousands of consumers and institutions.
By combining blockchain’s transparency and efficiency with AI-driven automation, we’ve reimagined how loans are originated, funded, and traded in secondary markets. From faster processing times to lower costs and reduced bias, our technology is helping borrowers, investors, and financial institutions achieve better outcomes.
Together with our 170+ partners, we’ve originated over $17 billion in home equity loans (HELOCs) on our blockchain-native platform, making Figure the largest non-bank provider of home equity financing in the U.S. Figure’s ecosystem also includes YLDS, an SEC-registered yield-bearing stablecoin that operates as a tokenized money market fund, and several other products and platforms that are reshaping consumer finance and capital markets.
We’re proud to be recognized as one of Forbes’ Most Innovative Fintech Startups in 2025 and Fast Company’s Most Innovative Companies in Finance and Personal Finance.
About the Role
We’re seeking a hands-on AI leader to drive the next phase of our applied AI evolution. As Director of AI, you’ll lead a high-caliber team building and operating large-scale, production AI systems that power critical business functions, acting as a player-coach who pairs deep technical execution with ownership of strategy, architecture, and standards. You’ll work directly with the Chief Data Officer and senior leadership at one of the most advanced organizations applying AI to consumer lending, with dozens of models already in production and automation delivering measurable impact. If you’ve shipped at scale (not just prototypes) and thrive at blending experimentation with engineering rigor to deliver tangible business value, this is a rare opportunity to lead, build, and innovate in a company that treats AI as core infrastructure and as a key competitive advantage.
What You’ll Do
- Lead and expand the AI Engineering team focused on developing, fine-tuning, and maintaining LLM-driven and other AI systems that automate and optimize key business processes.
- Be a hands-on technical leader, contributing directly to architecture, code, and model development while mentoring AI engineers on best practices.
- Own the full AI lifecycle: from ideation and experimentation through production deployment and monitoring, in partnership with our Engineering and Analytics teams.
- Establish strong technical standards for model evaluation, observability, governance, and reliability, ensuring seamless integration into production systems.
- Drive applied AI innovation, leveraging emerging models, frameworks, and tools while balancing cutting-edge exploration with practical business impact.
- Collaborate cross-functionally with Engineering, Data Science, Analytics, and Product to translate real-world business challenges into concrete, deployable AI solutions.
- Foster a culture of excellence, encouraging rapid prototyping, rigorous testing, and continuous improvement.
- Ensure AI reliability and performance at scale, including monitoring, retraining, and iterative refinement of deployed systems.
- Contribute strategically to the company’s AI roadmap and play a key role in setting technical direction and long-term vision.
What We Look For
- 8+ years of hands-on experience designing, building, and deploying NLP and ML models in real-world, production-grade environments.
- Proven experience training, fine-tuning, and deploying LLMs and successfully integrating them into production systems.
- Real-world experience orchestrating agentic AI solutions with MCPs; must have successfully used or implemented MCPs to drive agentic AI processes at scale within production systems.
- Strong problem-solving ability, with a knack for translating ambiguous business problems into well-structured model development strategies. You combine academic rigor with pragmatic execution, rapidly prototyping and iterating toward impactful solutions.
- Track record of technical leadership, with demonstrated success leading teams that deliver business-changing AI systems integrated into live environments.
- Deep understanding of LLM operations, prompt optimization, orchestration frameworks, and model evaluation techniques.
- Proficiency in Python and familiarity with cloud environments (AWS, GCP, or Azure), modern MLOps/LLMOps best practices, and model observability tools.
- Experience developing in Kotlin or familiarity with consumer finance or lending environments is a strong plus.
- Excellent communication, mentorship, and collaboration skills, able to translate technical complexity into business clarity.
Salary
- Compensation Range: $193,600-$242,000/yr
- 25% annual bonus target, paid quarterly
- Equity stock options package
- This is the compensation range for the United States, actual compensation may vary based on individual candidate experience, location, or evolving business needs
Benefits
- Comprehensive health, vision, and dental insurance with 100% employer-paid premiums for employees and their dependents on select plans
- Company HSA, FSA, Dependent Care, 401k, and commuter benefits
- Employer-funded life and disability insurance coverage
- 11 Observed Holidays & PTO plan
- Up to 12 weeks paid family leave
- Continuing education reimbursement
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Figure will not sponsor work visas for this position. In compliance with federal law, all persons hired will be required to verify identity and eligibility to work in the United States and to complete the required employment eligibility verification form upon hire.
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What We Do
Figure has applied blockchain technology across a series of real-world applications that are delivering real and immediate value to everyday consumers across sectors, including loan origination, private company cap table and fund management, security markets and payments. Figure has and continues to develop innovative products and services that seek to bypass traditional incumbents within the financial services industry.
Simply put, Figure is delivering on the promise of blockchain technology. Over $15B in transactions have been conducted on the Provenance Blockchain, a layer 1 designed for financial services, built and deployed by Figure.
As one of the first lenders to fully use blockchain technology, Figure is driving adoption across the lending ecosystem and providing stakeholders the benefit of an immutable record of asset ownership on the Provenance Blockchain. Figure’s HELOC product has enabled over 85,000 households across 45 states to unlock a combined $6 billion in equity from their homes. These lines of credit give people the opportunity to fund home improvement projects, secondary education, and more.
Figure is a regulatory powerhouse, boasting over 200 lending, servicing and money transmission licenses, SEC approval as an Alternative Trading System, and FINRA approved broker-dealer status. While some fintech companies aim to compete with traditional banks, Figure has stuck to expanding use cases for blockchain in finance and creating tech-enabled solutions for deep financial change in the markets. The company's iterative approach to product development has helped it to meet the evolving needs of its customers.
Why Work With Us
Figure creates tech-enabled, cutting-edge solutions for deep financial change, meeting the evolving needs of its customers. As the only firm leveraging blockchain technology to create real-world applications and immediate value to everyday consumers, Figure is effectively bridging the gap between the digital asset and traditional finance spaces.
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