Applied AI ML Python & Agentic AI

As a Senior Associate Applied AI/ML Engineer in our Applied AI ML - Python & Agentic AI team you will design build and productionize Generative AI and Agentic AI solutions. The ideal candidate brings a balanced mix of modern AI/ML delivery (LLMs/SLMs RAG tool-using agents evaluation MLOps) and backend/service engineering (Java and/or Python APIs/microservices testing CI/CD observability reliability) on AWS and cloud-native platforms.

This role values modern AI engineering workflows and tooling such as GitHub Copilot and Claude Code to accelerate delivery while maintaining quality and security. Familiarity with MCP (Model Context Protocol) Agent Skills and designing agentic systems that integrate models with tools and enterprise data via structured interfaces is a plus.

Job Responsibilities

• Design develop and deploy GenAI and Agentic AI solutions that improve automation decision-making and user experience across business workflows.
• Build LLM/SLM-powered applications including RAG-based systems summarization/extraction pipelines chat/coplay experiences and tool-using agents.
• Engineer production-grade services using Java and/or Python (REST/gRPC APIs microservices libraries) following secure coding and reliability best practices.
• Develop prompt strategies and prompt engineering assets (templates routing guardrails) and implement automated evaluation to improve quality over time.
• Build and maintain data pipelines and processing workflows required for ML/GenAI use cases using cloud services.
• Apply MLOps practices across the lifecycle: experimentation versioning CI/CD deployment monitoring and maintenance for models/prompts/agents.
• Implement robust testing (unit/integration) performance benchmarking (latency/cost) and observability (logging/metrics/tracing) for AI services.
• Collaborate with cross-functional stakeholders to define requirements success metrics and rollout plans; communicate complex topics clearly to technical and non-technical audiences.
• Strong problem-solving skills and ability to work effectively in ambiguous environments with multiple stakeholders.

Required Qualifications Capabilities and Skills

• Undergrad or Masters degree (or equivalent practical experience) in Computer Science Data Science Machine Learning or related field.
• Hands-on experience building applied AI/ML or GenAI solutions (e.g. RAG classification extraction ranking summarization copilots).
• Familiarity with MCP (Model Context Protocol) Agent Skills and architectures that connect models to tools/data through standardized interfaces.
• Familiarity with LLM application patterns: embeddings/vector search prompt orchestration tool calling/function calling safety/guardrails evaluation.
• Strong software engineering experience delivering production systems; ability to design maintainable architectures and write clean testable code.
• Proficiency in Java and/or Python and experience building APIs/services and integrating with data sources and downstream systems.
• Experience deploying solutions on AWS and cloud-native environments; understanding of security fundamentals and operational excellence.
• Experience with modern engineering practices: CI/CD code reviews unit testing (e.g. pytest/JUnit) and deployment automation.
• Experience with containers and orchestration (e.g. Docker Kubernetes/EKS) and production monitoring practices.

Preferred Qualifications Capabilities and Skills

• Experience building agentic AI systems (multi-step workflows tool routing planning memory patterns supervision/fallback strategies).
• Experience with AWS Bedrock and/or SageMaker (or equivalent managed ML/GenAI platforms) and deployment patterns for scalable inference.
• Experience with evaluation frameworks and approaches (golden datasets LLM-as-judge human-in-the-loop review red teaming).
• Experience fine-tuning models (e.g. LoRA/QLoRA/DoRA) and/or working with SLMs embeddings and retrieval systems.
• Experience with developer productivity tooling such as GitHub Copilot and Claude Code paired with strong SDLC controls.
• Knowledge of the financial services industry and operating in regulated environments (auditability controls data handling).
• Exposure to distributed compute/training concepts (e.g. DDP sharding) and performance/cost optimization.