Staff Software Engineer-AI Products

You will shape the technical direction and architecture for an enterprise-grade AI platform driving scalable secure AI services used by product and engineering stakeholders. Youll report to the Director of Platform Services and work fully Remote as part of a Platform Services sub-team partnering closely with application engineering cloud infrastructure applied AI and product.

• Own the reference architecture for the AI platform including API abstractions prompt and version management RAG infrastructure vector retrieval evaluation harnesses and model serving.
• Lead build-vs-buy evaluations due diligence and integration planning for AI components.
• Design and implement foundational data pipelines and infrastructure to support reliable scalable AI services with security and compliance in mind.
• Contribute hands-on backend development in Python and RESTful API design; participate in full-stack delivery using React/TypeScript when needed.
• Build and maintain tooling SDKs platform APIs and evaluation frameworks to enable reproducible model testing and safe AI adoption by product teams.
• Establish observability and performance tracking for AI services and apply secure-by-default principles (encryption least privilege audit logging).
• Mentor and sponsor other engineers lead architecture reviews and drive engineering best practices and documentation.

• 8 years of professional software engineering experience with demonstrated cross-team architectural influence.
• Proven end-to-end delivery of AI-powered features from concept to production.
• Strong proficiency in Python and RESTful API development (e.g. FastAPI Django).
• Experience with full-stack development (React TypeScript) and integrations with third-party LLM/AI APIs.
• Familiarity with AWS services (IAM networking managed services storage) and cloud-native architecture.
• Solid foundation in distributed systems API design CI/CD Docker version control and observability tools.
• Experience with GenAI patterns (RAG pipelines prompt management LLM evaluation agent frameworks) and vector databases/semantic search.
• Exposure to model serving MLOps/LLMOps practices IaC (Terraform/Pulumi) and Kubernetes.
• Strong communication skills for technical and non-technical stakeholders and experience authoring RFCs/ADRs.
• Bachelors degree in Computer Science Software Engineering or equivalent experience.

• Experience building in financial services fintech or other regulated environments.
• Working familiarity with AI governance and compliance frameworks relevant to finance (model risk fair lending SOC 2).

$236K/year

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