Senior Applied AI Engineer (Video Prompt)

Job Description

Job Description

The Opportunity

Monstro is seeking a

Monstro is seeking a Senior Applied AI Engineer (Video Prompting) to pioneer how intelligent financial guidance is brought to life through dynamic, personalized video. This role bridges advanced AI engineering with creative product execution—transforming the insights our platform generates into short, educational, and action-oriented videos tailored to each client's financial situation.

You'll work alongside our AI, Product, and Design teams to translate text-based guidance into high-quality visual experiences that educate, engage, and drive users to act. This is a hands-on senior IC role for an engineer who combines deep technical expertise in applied AI and multimodal prompting with a product mindset and creative execution.

Monstro's AI is already reshaping how individuals and institutions receive personalized insights across domains like tax, cash flow, and investments. This role will extend that foundation by building the systems and models that generate explainer and guidance videos—turning intelligence into impact.

About Monstro

Monstro, headquartered in New York City, is an AI-native fintech / banktech platform transforming how people and institutions manage money.

Our mission is to democratize access to high-quality financial insight—giving every individual and institution the intelligence, tools, and automation to make better decisions across wealth, tax, legal, and investment.

For financial institutions, Monstro serves as the

• intelligence layer
• —a unified platform that unlocks real-time insights, automation, and revenue opportunities across their client base. For consumers, we deliver personalized, always-on financial guidance and the ability to take action—all within a seamless, next-generation mobile experience.

This B2B2C model drives deeper engagement, higher retention, and scalable growth for institutions, while empowering everyday users to make smarter, more confident financial decisions.

Our team brings together leaders from fintech, wealth management, and AI-driven technology companies—combining decades of experience building and scaling platforms that have transformed industries.

Responsibilities

AI Video Generation & Multimodal Prompting

Develop and refine AI systems that convert structured financial guidance into dynamic, short-form videos.

Build modular pipelines for personalized video generation—leveraging LLMs, multimodal frameworks, and video synthesis models.

Experiment with prompting, chaining, and AI orchestration techniques to ensure narrative accuracy, tone, and actionability.

Engineering & Implementation

Work within Monstro's core tech stack : Python, FastAPI, LangChain / LangGraph, Supabase, Docker, AWS App Runner, and LangSmith tracing.

Collaborate with backend engineers to integrate video-generation capabilities directly into Monstro's consumer experience.

AI / UX Collaboration

Partner with product and design teams to align technical output with user experience goals.

Ensure videos are contextually relevant, visually coherent, and reinforce user understanding and confidence.

Develop frameworks for multi-language and accessibility-friendly video output.

Innovation & Research

Stay ahead of emerging trends in generative video, text-to-video, and multimodal AI research.

Evaluate and integrate new frameworks or APIs (e.g., OpenAI, Pika, Runway, or equivalent).

Culture & Collaboration

Work closely with Monstro's AI, Product, and Data teams to ensure speed, quality, and alignment with company goals.

Qualifications

5–10 years of software engineering experience, with at least 2–4 years focused on applied AI, GenAI, or multimodal systems.

Strong background in Python and familiarity with frameworks like LangChain, LangGraph, or equivalent.

Deep understanding of LLM prompting, chaining, embeddings, and vector database operations.

Experience integrating AI outputs into customer-facing applications.

Excellent communication and collaboration skills; comfortable working across AI, product, and design disciplines.

Nice-to-Haves

Experience using OpenAI, Runway, Pika, or similar AI video-generation tools.

Background in fintech or education technology with personalized content delivery.

Why Monstro?

Ownership & Impact : Build systems that redefine how financial guidance is communicated and understood.

Category-Defining Work : Combine AI, education, and finance into an entirely new user experience medium.

Category-Defining Work : Help democratize access to financial knowledge through AI-powered storytelling.

Compensation : $220K–$260K base + top-tier equity

Apply Today

If you're passionate about pushing the boundaries of applied AI, thrive in fast-moving environments, and want to create technology that informs, educates, and inspires action—we'd love to meet you.