Sr AI/Agentic Engineer

Lendistry is an Equal Opportunity/Affirmative Action Employer. We consider applicants without regard to race, color, religion, age, national origin, ancestry, ethnicity, gender, gender identity, gender expression, sexual orientation, marital status, veteran status, disability, genetic information, or membership in any other group protected by federal, state, or local law. If you need assistance or accommodation due to a disability, you may contact us at hr@ lendistry.com   Lendistry does not accept unsolicited resumes from recruiters, employment agencies, or staffing firms. To conduct business with Lendistry, a Master Services Agreement (MSA) must be executed and confirmed prior to submitting any information relating to a potential candidate. Without a signed MSA, Lendistry shall not be responsible to any individual or entity for any payment relating to any form of fee or compensation. And, in the event that a resume or candidate is submitted by a recruiter, an employment agency, or a staffing firm without a fully executed MSA, Lendistry has the unrestricted right to pursue and hire any of those candidate(s) without any legal or financial responsibility to the recruiter, agency, and/or firm.  A Day in the Life The Senior AI Engineer will deliver the Lendistry AI strategy. This is a hands-on applied engineering role for an experienced LLM practitioner who can take ownership of end-to-end AI features — from design through production operation — and help set technical direction for the engineers building alongside you. You will work directly with the VP Organizational Intelligence, the AI team lead, and the Senior Staff Engineer, AI. You will lead the day-to-day delivery of agentic workflows, document intelligence, retrieval systems, and borrower- and operator-facing AI experiences, and you will help mentor more junior AI engineers on the team. You will contribute to and shape the shared AI platform — the prompt registry, tool-calling framework, evaluation harness, and inference routing layer — that every Lendistry product team consumes. Lendistry: Who We Are             We’re proud to be the nation’s largest minority-led, tech-savvy lender for small businesses and commercial real estate.  As a certified Community Development Financial Institution (CDFI) and Community Development Entity (CDE), our mission is all about creating economic opportunities and fueling growth for small business owners and their communities.  Join us as we pave the way with innovative financing and financial education! What You’ll Be Doing As a Senior AI Engineer on the Lendistry AI team, you will lead the delivery of: Document intelligence pipelines that read loan applications, tax returns, bank statements, and financial statements with human-level comprehension and full audit trails. Underwriting copilots that surface risk signals, policy checks, and recommended conditions in real time for Lendistry underwriters. Borrower-facing conversational AI…