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Forward Deployed Engineer

Sphinx · San Francisco · On-site

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About Sphinx

Sphinx is a reliability system designed for organizations that depend on accurate, trustworthy data. It ensures that definitions stay consistent across systems, reducing manual fixes and eliminating guesswork. Backed by Lightspeed.

About the role

tl;dr: We’re automating compliance for banks and fintechs with AI agents that work like human analysts – on a browser. Demand is growing faster than we can keep up, and we’re expanding our deployment team to meet the needs of major institutions across the U.S., Canada, Europe, and LatAm. If you love shipping real systems in live environments, solving edge cases in record time, and working directly with clients, we should talk.

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tl;dr: We’re automating compliance for banks and fintechs with AI agents that work like human analysts – on a browser. Demand is growing faster than we can keep up, and we’re expanding our deployment team to meet the needs of major institutions across the U.S., Canada, Europe, and LatAm. If you love shipping real systems in live environments, solving edge cases in record time, and working directly with clients, we should talk.

PS: want to skip the queue? Save Morty from Rick in our AI-proof coding challenge . If things go well, we'll reach out to organize an interview directly with our CTO. And if you win, we pay you $10k, no questions ask.

Before you can move money or open an account, someone has to make sure you’re not a criminal. That’s compliance – and it’s broken.

Sphinx builds AI analysts that work inside browsers, APIs, and internal systems just like humans — automating AML, KYC, KYB, and transaction monitoring end-to-end.

Our agents already handle millions of compliance decisions across banking, fintech, and crypto. Now, we’re scaling fast, and every new deployment pushes the frontier of what’s possible with AI in production.

Massive, unsexy market: Banks spend $50B a year...

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