Job Description
Our client, a growing Hedge Fund in Downtown NY with over $10 billion AUM is looking to add an AI Engineer to the team. You will help define the technical vision and roadmap for AI initiatives firmwide, with a focus on applied AI and agentic systems.
Responsibilities:
Skills:
Responsibilities:
- Partner with key stakeholders to identify, prioritize, and accomplish high-impact AI opportunities.
- Design, build and deploy LLM-based products that solve specific business and investment workflows while generalizing into reusable, firm-wide AI capabilities.
- Architect and implement agentic AI systems capable of multi-step reasoning, planning, and tool execution.
- Develop and operate MCP (Model Context Protocol) servers and integrations to securely connect AI agents with enterprise data, APIs, and computational services.
- Own the full LLM and agent lifecycle, including prompt and system design, model selection, evaluation, deployment, monitoring, and continuous iteration in production.
- Lead applied AI R&D and rapid prototyping to move quickly from concept to production.
- Establish best practices for model development, deployment, evaluation, and responsible use of AI in production environments.
- Stay current with AI/ML advancements and apply emerging techniques to solve complex business and investment problems.
- Mentor and develop junior engineers and researchers.
Skills:
- 5+ years of applied industry experience building and deploying production AI systems.
- Advanced degree (Master's or Ph.D.) in Computer Science, Artificial Intelligence, Machine Learning, or a related quantitative field.
- Hands-on experience building and operating production-grade LLM applications, including evaluation, monitoring, and iteration in live environments.
- Experience with agentic and LLM frameworks, and a strong understanding of agentic design patterns.
- Experience designing and operating MCP (Model Context Protocol) servers or equivalent agent integration layers, enabling secure, standardized communication between AI agents and enterprise data, APIs, and services.
- Strong Python engineering expertise, including object-oriented design, microservices architectures, and REST API development.
Numbers & Facts
| Location | New York, NY |
| Industry | Staffing/Employment Agencies |
| Salary | $165,000–$200,000 Per Year |
| Company Size | 50 to 99 employees |
| Year Founded | 2002 |
| Website | https://phaxis.com/ |
About Company
We stand for PERSEVERANCE, as we refuse to quit when the journey gets tough. Your gold is our mission, and we search day and night to find it.
Skills
- Application Programming Interface (API)unmatched
- Artificial Intelligence (AI)unmatched
- Artificial Intelligence (AI) Agentsunmatched
- Best Practicesunmatched
- Computer Scienceunmatched
- Design Patterns Programming Methodologiesunmatched
- Establish Prioritiesunmatched
- Hedge Fundsunmatched
- MCP - Microsoft Certified Professionalunmatched
- Machine Learningunmatched
- Mentoringunmatched
- Microservicesunmatched
- Object Oriented Design (OOD)unmatched
- Production Systemsunmatched
- Python Programming/Scripting Languageunmatched
- REST (Representational State Transfer)unmatched
- Rapid Prototypingunmatched
- Research & Development (R&D)unmatched
- Software Engineeringunmatched
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