Staff AI Platform Engineer
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Job Summary
Job Summary
The Lead Data Platform Agentic AI Engineer will design and build core platform capabilities that enable secure scalable GenAI and Agentic AI solutions across Bread Financial. This role will develop foundational services such as agent orchestration vector search LLM interfaces and observability and security frameworks that allow product teams to deliver reliable AI features quickly and safely. The Lead Engineer will work closely with platform security and application teams ensuring AI platform components are production-ready well-governed and aligned to enterprise standards. The Lead Engineer will apply strong technical judgement contribute to platform design decisions and help evolve shared AI infrastructure that accelerates innovation while maintaining trust reliability and compliance.- Design and build orchestration layers for LLM workflows and multi-step agent pipelines (tool use retrieval grounding function calling) with clear SLAs retries rate limiting and tracing. - (20%)
- Implement vector data infrastructure (e.g. Chroma OpenSearch) including indexing strategies embeddings management RAG patterns and data lifecycle controls. - (15%)
- Develop LLM interfaces & SDKs that abstract providers (Bedrock Azure/OpenAI etc.) standardize prompts enable guardrails and support evaluation harnesses and A/B testing. - (15%)
- Integrate logging tracing (e.g. OpenTelemetry) metrics prompt/response analytics eval pipelines (quality toxicity hallucination) and SLO dashboards. - (10%)
- Enforce data classification redaction PII controls prompt injection defenses content filtering secrets management and policy-as-code for model/endpoint access. - (10%)
- IaC (Terraform/CDK) CI/CD for model and prompt artifacts environment promotion and cost monitoring/optimization. - (10%)
- Partner with cross-functional teams (data engineering security product) to productionize new capabilities and drive platform adoption through documentation templates and enablement. - (10%)
- Participate in on-call rotations root-cause analysis and continuous improvement of performance reliability and developer experience. - (10%)
Minimum Qualifications
- Bachelors Degree in Computer Science Engineering or related field of study or equivalent relevant work experience
- 8 years of overall software engineering experience.
- 3 years of experience building AI platform components.
- 4 years of experience implementing LLM-based services: prompt templates tool/function calling retrieval-augmented generation and rate/latency management.
Preferred Qualifications
- Masters Degree in Computer Science Engineering or related field of study or equivalent relevant work experience
- AWS Cloud Practitioner Certification.
- 8 years of software engineering experience.
- 4 years of experience building AI platform components.
- 4 years of experience implementing LLM-based services: prompt templates tool/function calling retrieval-augmented generation and rate/latency management.
Skills
- Amazon Aurora
- AWS Cloud Computing
- AWS Elastic Kubernetes Service (EKS)
- AWS Key Management Service (KMS)
- HashiCorp Vault
- GitHub Actions
- Prometheus (Software)
- Python (Programming Language)
- OpenSearch (Software)
- Telemetry
- Terraform
- TypeScript
Reports To: Manager and above
Direct Reports: 0
Work Environment
- Normal office environment. Hybrid 6-8 days per month are required in office.
Other Duties
This job description is illustrative of the types of duties typically performed by this job. It is not intended to be an exhaustive listing of each and every essential function of the job. Because job content may change from time to time the Company reserves the right to add and/or delete essential functions from this job at any time.
About Bread Financial
At Bread Financial youll have the opportunity to grow your career give back to your community and be part of our award-winning culture. Weve been consistently recognized as a best place to work nationally and in many markets and were proud to promote an environment where you feel appreciated accepted valued and fulfilledboth personally and professionally. Bread Financial supports the overall wellness of our associates with a diverse suite of benefits and offers boundless opportunities for career development and non-traditional career progression.
Bread Financial(NYSE: BFH) is a tech-forward financial services company that provides simple personalized payment lending and saving solutions to millions of U.S. payment solutions deliver growth for some of the most recognized brands in travel & entertainment health & beauty technology electronics jewelry home and specialty apparel through ourco-brand and private label credit cards and pay-over-time products providing choice and value to our shared we offer Bread Financial general purpose credit cards and saving products that empower our customers and their passions for a better life.
Bread Financial proudly marks 30 years of success in 2026. To learn more about our global associates our performance and our sustainability progressvisit follow us on Instagram and LinkedIn.
All job offers are contingent upon successful completion of credit and background checks.
Bread Financial is an Equal Opportunity Employer.
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About Company
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