Lead AI Engineer

Lead AI Engineer (Principal Consultant)

About the team:

At the Capco Technology Delivery Center we are dedicated to the financial services industries. Our professionals combine innovative thinking with unrivalled industry and domain expertise to offer our clients consulting expertise complex technology and package integration transformation delivery and managed services to move their organizations forward. Through our collaborative and efficient approach we help our clients successfully innovate increase revenue manage risk and regulatory change reduce costs and enhance controls. Our teams stay at the forefront of industry trends and technologies that are driving innovation. From strategy to launch we are adept at delivering across the full product lifecycle.

About the Job:

As a member of the Capco Technology Delivery Team youll bring practical knowledge of agile development methodologies and engineering best practices. As an AI Engineer youll play an integral role using your experience and skills to contribute to the quality and implementation of our projects.

What Youll Get to Do:

• Architect and develop autonomous AI systems that integrate LLMs with multimodal capabilities (text image audio and video) to support complex realworld tasks
• Create robust agentic workflows enabling AI agents to interact autonomously with data sources and external APIs using advanced prompt engineering and retrievalaugmented generation (RAG)
• Finetune and optimize pretrained large language models and multimodal models for targeted use cases ensuring high performance and low latency in production.
• Implement distributed training and scalable MLOps pipelines for continuous model improvement
• Collaborate with crossfunctional teamsresearch product and engineeringto embed AI capabilities into products and services
• Evaluate and select appropriate AI frameworks (e.g. LangChain LlamaIndex) to integrate agent components seamlessly with enterprise systems
• Build fullstack applications (frontend interfaces and backend APIs) using modern languages and frameworks (React/Angular Python Java )
• Develop and enforce testing protocols and monitoring systems to ensure AI outputs are accurate reliable and ethically aligned
• Proactively identify and mitigate risks such as hallucinations bias and security vulnerabilities within deployed AI systems
• Manage project timelines and collaborate with business groups in an agile environment considering costbenefit tradeoffs for GenAI solutions
• Stay current on advancements in generative AI agentic systems and multimodal models; experiment with novel architectures and workflows
• Develop quick prototypes and evaluate emerging technologies in the GenAI space in collaboration with technical teams

What Youll Bring with You:

The Essentials:

• Bachelors degree or above in Computer Science Engineering Information Technology Artificial Intelligence or a related field (STEM)
• Handson experience in AI/ML engineering with demonstrable work deploying LLMs at scale (Multimodal models and autonomous agent systems preferrable)
• Proven experience building backend application components and APIs in Python
• Proficiency in designing and executing complex prompt strategies and intput/output data validation models to achieve desired outputs from LLMs
• Experience monitoring AI applications using popular observability tools (e.g. Langfuse Langsmith) to ensure seamless performance and monitoring
• Strong skills in data transformations for both structured and unstructured data; ability to integrate these processes into scalable pipelines
• Experience deploying AI models and fullstack applications using cloudnative tools
• Strong grasp of DevOp/MLOps best practices including version control and CI/CD
• Excellent problemsolving debugging and rapid prototyping
• Strong project management skills to coordinate effectively with technical and business teams
• Demonstrated understanding of costbenefit tradeoffs when employing GenAI solutions ensuring efficient resource utilization
• Excellent communication skills and a collaborative mindset with experience working in multidisciplinary agile teams

Preferable to have:

• Experience in deep learning frameworks
• Experience working with agentic AI frameworks
• Experience building userfacing frontend applications
• Knowledge and implementation of Model Context Protocol

Why Capco

A career at Capco is a chance to help reshape the competitive landscape in financial services. We launch new banks transform existing ones and help our clients navigate complex change. As consultants we work on the frontend business design all the way through to technology implementation.

We are the largest Financial Services focused consultancy in the world serving everyone from global banks to emerging FinTechs from strategy through digital transformation design business consulting data and analytics cyber cloud technology architecture and engineering.

Capco is a young and growing firm. We maintain an entrepreneurial spirit and growth mindset and have minimal bureaucracy. We have no internal silos that get in the way of your career opportunities or ability to focus on our clients and make a difference to the business.

We offer the opportunity for everyone to learn rapidly take on tough challenges and get promoted quickly. We take pride in our creative collaborative diverse and inclusive culture where everyone can #BYAW.

We offer highly competitive benefits including medical dental and vision insurance a 401(k) plan tuition reimbursement and a work culture focused on innovation and creation of lasting value for our clients and employees.

Ready to Take the Next Step

If this sounds like you we would love to hear from you. This is an opportunity to make a difference and contribute to a highly successful company with a significant growth trajectory.