VP, Investment AI Engineer

Acadian Asset Management is a global systematic investment manager at the forefront of data-driven investing since 1986. Headquartered in Boston with locations in Singapore London and Sydney we manage over $170 billion on behalf of leading institutions worldwideincluding pension funds endowments foundations and sovereign wealth funds. We harness advanced technology rich datasets and multidisciplinary expertise to help clients navigate complex markets and uncover insights that may be overlooked by traditional approaches.

What sets Acadian apart is our people. We foster a collaborative intellectually curious environment where ideas are tested diverse perspectives are welcomed and innovation thrives. Were united by a shared purpose: delivering effective client outcomes and supporting one another in work thats both challenging and rewarding. We offer a flexible hybrid work environment strong benefits and a casual but focused office cultureall designed to support the meaningful collaborative work that defines Acadian.

Position Overview:

The Investment AI Engineer is a senior execution-focused individual in the Investment team working alongside quantitative researchers and portfolio managers to design build andoperateagentic solutions that accelerate the investment process. The role partners with Technology to evolve production-grade enterprise AI capabilities whileremainingfocused on building investment-specific skills sub-agents and workflows that enable safe repeatable automation within research and portfolio workflows. This position reflects a broader shift toward instruction-driven development and human-in-the-loop agentic systems that augment investment teams while preservingjudgment rigor and to success in this role is the ability to translate abstract investment and research intent into clear achievable specifications and highquality merge requests that integrate cleanly into existing production systems.

Acadian supports a hybrid work environment; employees are on-site in the Boston office 3 days a week.

WhatYoullDo:

• Deliver reusable skills that encode investment workflows conventions and institutional knowledge for use across the Investment team.
• Implement safe automation practices including human-in-the-loop review testing and controlled execution of agentic workflows.
• Design build andoperateinvestment-facing AI agents skills and workflows that automate repeatable research and portfolio tasks.
• Define andmaintainguardrails around cost data access agent scope and commit size to ensure reliable and responsible usage.
• Translate complex often ambiguous investment and research requirements into clear technical specifications well-scoped tasks and reviewable merge requests.
• Embed within existing investment teams working closely with team leads and domain experts to translate investment intent into concrete productionready agenticworkflowsand software changes.
• Partner directly with quantitative researchers and portfolio managers to prototype refine andproductionizeAI-enabled workflows.
• Measure and improve the outcomes of AI-enabled workflows including adoption quality and time-to-value.
• Identifyopportunities where agentic workflows can meaningfully improve investment productivity and decision support.
• Establish and reinforce review norms for agent-generated changes ensuring clarity of intent auditability and accountability.
• Contribute to defining best practices for instruction-driven development and agentic workflows within the Investment team.
• Serve as a point of continuity between evolving AI capabilities and practical investment use cases helping the team adapt as tools mature.

Were Looking for Teammates With:

• Bachelors degree in Computer Science Engineering or a related technical field or equivalent practical experience.
• Significant experience as a software or AI engineer delivering production-grade systems with a focus on execution rather than research prototypes.
• Demonstrated experience building and operating AI- or LLM-enabled tooling automation or agentic workflows in real-world environments.
• Strong proficiency in Python AWS and modern development practices including testing version control and CI/CD.
• Experience translating complex domain intent (e.g. research or investment workflows) into clear specifications and reliable software artifacts.
• Ability to reason clearly about tradeoffs involving quality cost speed and risk and to apply those tradeoffs in day-to-day execution.
• Experience working closely with quantitative researchers portfolio managers or similarly sophisticated domain experts.
• Demonstrated ability to operate effectively in collaborative fast-moving environments where tools patterns and best practices are evolving.
• Baseline understanding of systematic or quantitative investment processes or demonstrated ability to quickly develop intuition for how investment research translates into live portfolio decisions.
• Demonstrated judgment in distinguishing technically impressive solutions from those that are practically useful robust and aligned with the needs of a systematic investment organization.

The base salary range for this role is $225000 $275000 per year. Actual compensation will be determined based on a candidates skills qualifications and relevant addition to base pay this position may be eligible for discretionary incentive compensation and includes participation in Acadians comprehensive benefits program which includes health retirement and wellness offerings.

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Acadian Asset Management LLC is committed to providing equal employment opportunity to all employees and applicants. No employee or applicant shall be discriminated against on the basis of gender race creed color sex age national origin marital status pregnancy or parenthood veteran status citizenship status disability gender identity or sexual orientation.