Principal AI Engineer – Autonomous Accounting Systems in City of London

Build AI That Makes Accounting Autonomous. We’re creating AI that handles the entire complexity of accounting workflows autonomously – from transaction processing to report preparation, from reconciliation to compliance checks. The accountant remains for final review and filing, but the heavy lifting becomes entirely autonomous. Our approach: continuous learning from millions of real transactions creates compound intelligence that no static model can match. Every transaction teaches our system. Every correction improves tomorrow’s decisions. Every client pattern becomes permanent knowledge. While others retrain models quarterly, our AI evolves every second from actual usage.

What You’ll Build:

• Continuous Learning Architecture: Systems that turn millions of daily transactions into compound intelligence without model retraining.
• Autonomous Workflow Systems: AI that completes complex, multi-step processes independently – categorization, reconciliation, report generation.
• Client Intelligence Layers: Architecture where each business’s AI becomes uniquely accurate through learned patterns.
• Industry-Defining Benchmarks: Evaluation frameworks that establish what autonomous accounting means.

Why This Matters:

We’re eliminating the drudgery that consumes millions of hours – the manual categorization, the endless reconciliation, the repetitive compliance checks. Accountants should focus on strategy and decisions, not data entry and matching. When this works, accounting becomes a strategic function, not an operational burden.

The Challenge:

Building AI that handles real money autonomously requires solving unsolved problems:

• Online learning with financial-grade accuracy guarantees.
• Client-specific optimization at million-user scale.
• Continuous improvement without catastrophic forgetting.
• Explainable decisions for audit trails and compliance.

These aren’t research questions – you’ll solve them in production, processing billions in real transactions.

What You Bring:

• Track record building AI systems that redefined what’s possible.
• Deep expertise in online learning, continuous adaptation, and memory architectures.
• Experience shipping complex systems at scale with real-world constraints.
• Ability to partner with AI labs to push beyond current capabilities.
• Vision for how AI achieves true autonomy in professional work.

The Opportunity:

Define the architecture that makes professional work autonomous. Build systems that transform accounting from manual labor to strategic oversight. Create the intelligence layer that makes continuous learning possible at scale. You won’t implement our vision – you’ll create it.