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Today, with over $40 billion in assets under technology, our platform empowers banks, trustees, and investors to accelerate growth through smarter strategies, faster transactions, and optimized investment portfolios.\nDriven by a bold vision to help grow the ABF market beyond $40 trillion, we're building a future defined by speed, confidence, and innovation. By combining automated workflows, comprehensive data, and AI-driven insights, we transform complexity into opportunity, enabling our clients to unlock growth and stay ahead.\nLearn more about our products, services, and mission at www.cardoai.com.\nThe Role\nThe Data Science & AI team is growing, and we are looking for an Applied AI Manager to lead our application of AI across the platform and the business. You will work on genuinely hard problems: structured finance data is complex, high-stakes, and largely unstructured, and you will build systems that actually change how the market operates. 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