Applied AI Engineer

We are hiring an Applied AI Engineer to join our AI team. This is an interdisciplinary, high-leverage role: you will be embedded in the AI team but spend most of your time partnering with the business teams across LI.FI - BD, sales, operations, legal, HR, finance, marketing, and customer service - to scope and build the internal AI tools and automations that make them more effective.

### What you’ll do - **Own the end-to-end build** of internal AI tools and automations: requirements gathering, stakeholder alignment, design, implementation, deployment, and iteration. - **Translate ambiguity into product** — distill a team's needs into a coherent plan and present it back to stakeholders in a way that gets buy-in. - **Build on a shared substrate** — contribute to the common TypeScript layer that internal AI tools at LI.FI are built on, so your work compounds with everyone else's. - **Close collaboration with business teams** — sit with BD, ops, legal, HR, finance, marketing, or customer service to deeply understand their workflows, pain points, and opportunities for AI leverage. - **Think holistically** — over time, help shape LI.FI's overall internal AI strategy rather than shipping isolated one-off automations. - **Work cross-functionally** — collaborate with shared resources such as DevOps and Security through our standard prioritization workflow.

### What we’re looking for #### Must-haves - **TypeScript proficiency** — this is our minimum technical bar, since you will be contributing to our shared substrate layer. - **Demonstrable, AI-native engineering experience** — work we can actually look at. GitHub projects, open source contributions, or working implementations using LLM tooling, agent libraries, or AI frameworks. - **DevOps & Security:** knowledge and understanding of best practices and foreseeable challenges. - **Drive and curiosity** — someone who builds things on their own time, not because they were assigned to. - **Structured independence** — able to manage projects end-to-end without hand-holding, while staying coordinated with stakeholders. - **Growth mindset** — we are hiring for trajectory, not credentials. We care more about how you think and learn than about the brand of your CV. - **Strong written and verbal communication** — you will be the bridge between business stakeholders and AI capabilities. #### Nice-to-haves - **Crypto, DeFi, or Web3 background** — enough context to quickly understand LI.FI's mission, customers, and ecosystem. - **Experience shipping production AI systems** — even small ones — with attention to evaluation, reliability, and cost. - **Exposure to internal tooling or BPM work** — you have automated workflows for non-technical teammates before.

### What you’ll get - Annual team offsites (Thailand in 2023, Vietnam in 2024, Marrakech in 2025, Crete in 2026; memories we'll never forget. Already dreaming about where 2027 will take us!) - 30 days of PTO - Flexible remote days - Flexible working hours - Equity participation from day 1 - Entitlement to work computer (choice of equipment) - An annual 1,000€ personal development budget once you have worked 6+ months (pro-rated the first year) - A one-time 1,000€ remote budget to use on coworking, office setup, etc. *If you join us as an independent contractor, you’re only entitled to the first five benefits of this list.* *This role is engaged via employer of record (EOR) or independent contractor arrangement.*

LI.FI is a cross-chain bridge and DEX aggregator that simplifies multi-chain trading by consolidating liquidity from multiple sources including DEX aggregators, bridges, and intent-systems. The platform provides developers with a comprehensive product suite including smart contracts, routing backends, SDKs, and customizable widgets to enable seamless cross-chain swaps and price discovery across blockchain ecosystems.