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Product 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

Build new product features from scratch. We have a long list of ideas that could become core products – from customer requests, from the team, and from watching how compliance actually works. You'll pick the highest-leverage ones, prototype them fast, and turn them into features that expand what Sphinx can do.

More about this role

tl;dr: We're automating compliance for banks and fintechs with AI agents that work like human analysts – on a browser. While our core engineering team scales what works, we need someone to figure out what's next. If you love building prototypes that become products, pushing the boundaries of what AI agents can do, and shipping experiments that change the roadmap, we should talk.

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. But what they can do today is a fraction of what's possible. We need someone whose entire job is to explore that gap – building new agent capabilities, prototyping new product surfaces, and turning "what if" into "ship it."

You'll build the features that define the product: Every product has a backlog of "we should build that." Your job is to pick the best ones, prototype them, and turn them into features customers love....

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