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Their ops teams build agents that trace stuck payments, work fraud and compliance alerts, clear reconciliation breaks, and investigate escalations across support tools, codebases, and logs. We work with fast-growing fintech unicorns and payments companies that move hundreds of billions of dollars a year. Their teams use Runtime every day, and it's already mission-critical infrastructure for them.\nThe team\nWe're AI engineers who've built payment and AI infrastructure at Fortune 500 scale, so we know the work our customers' underwriting, risk, and compliance teams do every day.\nGus Trigos, co-founder and CEO. AI engineer and second-time YC founder. Former quant in BlackRock's AI Quantitative Investment Group. Built Mentum (YC S21, acquired last year) for Latin America's largest asset and wealth managers, handling $20B+ in AUM data and 120k transactions a month.\nCarlos Volante, co-founder and CTO. Scaled underwriting and payment reconciliation infrastructure at Modern Treasury, Finix, and Hulu's payments team (Disney), covering billions in volume, near-perfect uptime, and billing for tens of millions of users.\nAbout the role\nYou'll join Carlos, Gus, and our founding engineers in San Francisco as one of our first hires. You'll work directly with the ops, risk, and compliance teams at our customers, figure out which of their workflows agents should own, and build those agents with them. 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