SENIOR AI ENGINEER – Agentic AI & Enterprise AI Platforms:
🎯 Essential: 5+yrs Software/ML/AI engineering + building production + any industry
💰 Compensation: $200,000 – $400,000 Total Compensation
📍 Location: New York, Connecticut, Miami or Remote (US)
🇺🇸 **MUST be a US citizen/Green Card OR U.S. H-1B visa holder**
The Opportunity
We're partnering with a highly successful global multi-strategy hedge fund that is making a significant long-term investment in Artificial Intelligence. The Chief AI Officer is building multiple AI Engineering teams focused on creating next-generation AI platforms, agentic workflows and enterprise AI capabilities that will transform how the organisation operates.
This is not a chatbot project - You'll join a small, high-calibre team building production-grade AI systems used across critical business functions, leveraging the latest advancements in LLMs, agentic AI, retrieval systems and AI orchestration frameworks. You'll have the opportunity to work directly with senior leadership and help shape the firm's AI strategy, architecture and tooling from the ground up.
This is an opportunity to combine the pace and autonomy of a startup with the resources, scale and ambition of a world-class financial institution.
Key Responsibilities
- Design, build and deploy production-grade AI applications, platforms and agentic workflows.
- Develop AI-powered copilots, knowledge assistants, automation tools and decision-support systems.
- Build and maintain enterprise AI platforms supporting multiple teams and business functions.
- Design multi-agent architectures incorporating planning, memory, tool use and workflow orchestration.
- Develop Retrieval-Augmented Generation (RAG) solutions, semantic search capabilities and knowledge retrieval systems.
- Build scalable APIs, services and infrastructure supporting AI workloads in production.
- Implement AI evaluation frameworks, observability, monitoring, guardrails and quality controls.
- Partner with stakeholders across technology, operations, finance, compliance and other business functions to identify and deliver high-impact AI use cases.
- Evaluate emerging AI technologies and contribute to long-term platform strategy and architecture.
- Drive projects from concept and experimentation through to production deployment and adoption.
Required Experience
- 5+ years of software engineering / machine learning / AI engineering experience.
- Strong hands-on experience building production AI systems using modern LLM technologies.
- Experience with agentic AI frameworks such as LangGraph, LangChain, OpenAI Agents SDK, CrewAI or similar.
- Experience designing and deploying RAG architectures, vector search and semantic retrieval systems.
- Strong Python engineering skills and experience building APIs and microservices.
- Experience with cloud platforms such as AWS, Azure or GCP.
- Experience with Docker, Kubernetes and modern deployment practices.
- Experience implementing evaluation, monitoring, observability and reliability controls for AI systems.
- Strong system design and architecture skills.
- Ability to work independently in a fast-paced, highly technical environment.
We are keen to speak with candidates from:
- AI-native technology companies
- Big Tech organisations
- High-growth AI startups
- Enterprise AI platform teams
- Financial services technology environments
- Machine learning infrastructure and platform engineering teams
Financial services experience is beneficial but not required.
Why This Role?
- Direct exposure to the firm's Chief AI Officer and senior leadership.
- Greenfield opportunity to help shape enterprise AI strategy and architecture.
- Work on genuinely cutting-edge agentic AI and LLM applications.
- Small, elite engineering teams with significant ownership and influence.
- Highly competitive compensation.
- Opportunity to build AI systems that will have firm-wide impact.
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