About this role
About the Role Applied AI Engineer to sit within our centralized Ops team and drive meaningful AI transformation across the entire business. This role serves as the connective tissue between cutting-edge AI capabilities and the practical, day-to-day needs of our teams—identifying where automation and AI can reduce toil, accelerate workflows, and unlock capacity for higher-value work. Alloy operates in a hybrid-work environment with onsite collaboration three days a week at our Union Square HQ. What You'll Do
- Identify high-impact automation and AI opportunities across the business, prioritized against strategic goals
- Design, build, and deploy AI-powered solutions — from lightweight automations to more sophisticated LLM-based workflows
- Partner with teams across Alloy to understand their pain points and translate them into scalable technical solutions
- Champion and enable AI adoption across the organization — running enablement sessions, building internal tooling, and helping teams become more self-sufficient
- Establish best practices, tooling standards, and frameworks for how Alloy builds and evaluates AI solutions
- Operate the internal stack like a product, running experiments, creating feedback loops, and continuously improving productivity across the whole organization
- Measure the impact of what you ship and continuously iterate What We're Looking For
- Hands-on experience building with LLMs and AI APIs (OpenAI, Anthropic, etc.) in production environments
- Strong engineering fundamentals — comfortable writing clean, maintainable code in Python or similar
- Experience with workflow automation tools (Zapier, Make, n8n, or custom-built pipelines)
- A business-minded approach: you think about ROI and impact, not just technical elegance
- Excellent communication skills — you can explain complex AI concepts to non-technical stakeholders and bring people along on the journey
- Comfort with ambiguity and a bias toward shipping Nice to Have
- Experience in an ops, revenue operations, or business systems role
- Familiarity with data tooling (SQL, dbt, etc.)
- Background in a fast-growing startup environment Compensation & Benefits
- Salary range: $150,000 - $180,000 per year
- Equity awards in the form of stock options (ISOs)
- Unlimited PTO and flexible work policy
- Medical, dental, vision plans with HSA (monthly employer contribution) and FSA options
- 401k with 100% match up to 4% of annual employee compensation
- 16 weeks of paid parental leave for eligible new parents
- Home office stipend for new employees
- Annual Learning & Development stipend
- Well-being benefits (ClassPass, OneMedical, UrbanSitter, Spring Health)
- Hybrid work environment: Tuesdays–Thursdays onsite at Union Square, Manhattan; Mondays/Fridays remote sometimes, with catered lunches and regular cultural events About Alloy Alloy is where you belong! We help solve the identity risk problem for financial product providers, enabling them to outpace fraud and serve more people globally. We’re backed by investors and recognized as a top place to work. Alloy is committed to fair and equitable compensation practices and an inclusive interview experience.