Axle builds AI Digital Workers for financial compliance teams.
Our agents investigate alerts, review customers and transactions, and generate audit-ready narratives so banks and fintechs can move faster with far less manual work.
The founding team has built and sold companies before, with over $300M in collective value creation. We’ve raised $6.2M in seed funding and are growing from 8 to 15 teammates. We’re backed by Diagram Ventures, Mistral Ventures, Inovia Ventures, and Uphonest Capital.
You'll be joining and leading our internal compliance team. You’ll combine deep compliance expertise with hands-on exposure to AI systems - reviewing, stress-testing, and improving how our agents make decisions. This is not a traditional analyst role. You are shaping how investigations are performed at scale.
We’re looking for people of exceptional competence who want to help build the future of AI-driven financial compliance.
What you'll do here:
- Own Investigation Quality -
Be the final line of defense on AI-generated investigations. Review outputs across transaction monitoring, KYC, and sanctions. Ensure every investigation meets bank-grade standards.
- Break the System -
Test new features, rules, and logic before they go live. Find where the AI fails - edge cases, blind spots, bad assumptions. Push the system until it breaks, then help fix it.
- Define How Investigations Should Work -
Translate real investigator thinking into structured logic. Shape how flags are evaluated, weighted, and combined. Influence how decisions are made across thousands of cases.
- Analyze & Improve -
Identify patterns in errors, inconsistencies, and performance gaps. Separate one-off mistakes from systemic issues. Drive improvements that meaningfully increase accuracy.
What we’re looking for:
- 5+ years in AML / financial crime investigations
- Strong curiosity for AI and how systems behave - you've been working with AI systems and they are deeply embedded in your day/day life.
- Deep experience with transaction monitoring, KYC/CDD, or sanctions
- Strong judgment - you know when to escalate and when not to
- Obsessive attention to detail
- High output without sacrificing quality
What we offer
- $85k - $125k USD salary
- $25k - $70k USD equity
- 100% Health/Vision/Dental
