Wave | Applied AI Scientist | https://wave.com | Remote (US/UK/Canada/Spain) | Full Time
Wave (YC W12) is making Africa the first cashless continent by building affordable, instant financial services for millions of users. We’re the largest financial institution in Senegal and Côte d’Ivoire and are growing rapidly across 9 countries.
We are looking for an Applied AI Scientist with 5+ years of experience and deep expertise in building, evaluating, and optimizing autonomous agents. You'll work on autonomous voice and digital agents powering 10M+ interactions monthly and will own features end to end, tackling hard edge cases like low-resource languages, low literacy, and poor connectivity.
Salary up to $227,900 + equity. Benefits include 6 months parental leave, $10k charity match.
I've designed and shipped production autonomous agent systems across voice and text channels: TechNova Voice Bot (FastAPI + WebSocket + Deepgram STT/TTS + Claude, real-time VAD pipeline, 26 tests, demo mode for offline eval) and Jorge AI (multi-turn SMS qualification agent, 1,753 tests, live on Render, with rate-limit enforcement, dedup, human-handoff logic, and end-to-end runbooks). Also built a LangGraph multi-agent pipeline (Research→Draft→Review→Publish, 33 tests) and a GraphRAG system with hybrid retrieval. 19 AI/ML certs including DeepLearning.AI specializations in LLMs and MLOps. Strong on eval methodology and edge-case hardening for real-world agent deployment.
Wave (YC W12) is making Africa the first cashless continent by building affordable, instant financial services for millions of users. We’re the largest financial institution in Senegal and Côte d’Ivoire and are growing rapidly across 9 countries.
We are looking for an Applied AI Scientist with 5+ years of experience and deep expertise in building, evaluating, and optimizing autonomous agents. You'll work on autonomous voice and digital agents powering 10M+ interactions monthly and will own features end to end, tackling hard edge cases like low-resource languages, low literacy, and poor connectivity.
Salary up to $227,900 + equity. Benefits include 6 months parental leave, $10k charity match.
Apply here: https://www.wave.com/en/careers/job/5779974004/