We are building the firm we want to see in the world.
Small teams. Deep expertise. High autonomy. Each person owns real work and real outcomes.
High agency. Low ego.
We're an AI-first company. That means small teams on each engagement, deep expertise, and high autonomy. Each person owns real work and real outcomes.
The work is demanding, and our clients are CEOs and leadership teams. We approach each engagement with intellectual curiosity rather than a preconceived answer, and we look for the same in the people we hire.
What working here is like.
Deeply embedded. Senior counterparts. Real autonomy.
Catalyst·Wayfare engagements are deeply embedded. Whatever your role, you would work alongside a client's leadership team and own meaningful pieces of the work, from design through deployment.
Our clients are real businesses across the most important sectors in the economy: finance, professional services, energy, industrials, healthcare, and beyond. The deliverables are AI tools that empower people to do their best work, supported by the governance frameworks that survive an audit, and capabilities that compound in value over years. But at its core, our work allows innovative Davids to take on slow-moving Goliaths.
You would work directly with senior people whose backgrounds span MIT, the White House, McKinsey, and some of the most recognized names in tech and AI. The bar is high. The autonomy is real.
Who we are looking for.
Six traits. The order matters. We lead with high agency.
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High agency, low ego.
You don't do office politics and are quick to adapt to new realities.
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Right-answer-wins.
You would rather the right answer win than your answer win.
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Builders, not advisors.
Builders who want to ship, not just advise.
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Operators who translate.
Operators who can sit in a room with a $300M-revenue CEO and translate.
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Comfortable in ambiguity.
The work changes as the engagement unfolds.
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Strong opinions, weakly held.
Convicted enough to commit. Honest enough to update.
Open roles.
We are growing the team across engineering and beyond.
Lead AI Engineer, Agentic Systems.
Technical lead on a multi-agent orchestration build for one of the country's leading power engineering firms. Architect the engine, design the agent patterns we replicate at the next client.
AI Engineer, Agent Builder (Forward Deployed).
Hands-on builder seat on the same agentic systems engagement. Build individual capability agents end-to-end. Tight feedback loops with skeptical, brilliant domain experts.
Platform Manager (Engineering), Trust.ML.
Own the engineering surface of Trust.ML, our signature platform and nascent SaaS offering for clients not yet ready for a bespoke build. Set the roadmap, hold the release cadence, and write the code that gets it to the first paying customers.
A short note is enough. No resume needed for the first email.
Send us an email.
For a specific role, follow the instructions in the role description. For general interest, send us a note telling us what you are working on, what you have shipped, and why Catalyst·Wayfare is interesting to you. No resume needed for the first email.
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