AI Software Engineer - NYC AI Labs – Investment Management

AI Software Engineer

NYC AI Labs – Investment Management

J Harlan Group is currently conducting a search for an AI Software Engineer to join the firm's AI Engineering team at a prominent global Investment Manager.

This opportunity offers the opportunity to collaborate with talented engineers, product owners, and business partners building high-impact AI products with leverage across the firm.

As a Software Engineer on T. Rowe Price Labs' AI Engineering team, you will design, develop, test, and deploy AI agents and intelligent systems, helping move innovative ideas from concept toward enterprise scale. Working in a Build-Operate-Transfer model, you will contribute to incubating new AI products, help harden them for production, and partner with business-aligned technology teams to scale responsible AI solutions across the enterprise.

This is a hands-on, end-to-end engineering opportunity with direct responsibility for building modern AI-enabled systems as part of T. Rowe Price Labs' AI Engineering team. You will collaborate in cross-functional squads and contribute throughout the lifecycle—from product incubation and experimentation through production deployment, operation, and eventual transfer to business-aligned technology teams.

What makes this opportunity particularly compelling is the combination of strong software engineering and applied AI. The team is building systems incorporating AI agents, agent orchestration, tool integration, retrieval-based systems, prompt engineering, evaluation frameworks, observability, and guardrails.

The position is not focused on AI research or training foundation models. Instead, it focuses on practically applying modern AI technologies to build reliable, scalable, production-quality enterprise systems.

The firm's AI Labs is focused on building the firm's next generation of data and AI capabilities and developing high-impact technology solutions that can ultimately be scaled across the organization.

Responsibilities

• Design, build, test, and deploy AI agents and intelligent systems for modern cloud-based, n-tier, cloud-native architectures.
• Work closely with engineers, product owners, and business stakeholders to develop agent-driven workflows that automate complex processes and generate actionable insights.
• Contribute to product incubation efforts by helping validate ideas, build robust implementations, and prepare solutions for production adoption.
• Support the transition of proven capabilities through the Build-Operate-Transfer model, partnering with business-aligned technology teams for long-term ownership and scale.
• Contribute to reusable AI capabilities across areas such as agent orchestration, prompt engineering, tool use, retrieval-based systems, evaluation frameworks, observability, and guardrails.
• Champion engineering excellence by applying best practices in AI development, automated testing, code quality, continuous integration, and continuous delivery.
• Manage technical debt and drive ongoing improvements in AI platforms and infrastructure.
• Proactively seek opportunities to apply AI agents for increased business value and operational efficiency.

Business & Collaboration

Collaborate directly with business stakeholders and product owners to understand needs and priorities.

Translate business requirements into effective and scalable technology solutions.

Make technology decisions that support both current requirements and future business objectives while maintaining fiscal responsibility.

Collaborate across engineering, data science, product, and business teams in a highly collaborative enterprise environment.

The Ideal Candidate Would Have a Background:

Required

• BS or MS in Computer Science or a related technical field (or equivalent experience), with
• 2+ years of professional development experience in an object-oriented language (Java, Python, or JavaScript preferred).
• Hands-on experience with cloud-native architectures (AWS, Azure), containerized microservices, and agent frameworks.
• Exposure to or strong interest in AI-enabled systems, intelligent workflows, or agentic applications.
• Familiarity with modern AI engineering patterns such as agent orchestration, tool integration, retrieval-based systems, evaluation approaches, monitoring, or guardrails is a plus.
• Strong analytical and problem-solving abilities.
• Commitment to quality via automated testing, code reviews, and continuous delivery.
• Results-driven with a passion for learning and staying current with emerging technologies.
• A product mindset and comfort operating in a fast-evolving technology landscape.

Preferred

Experience contributing to reusable platform components or shared engineering capabilities.

Solid understanding of financial markets and financial instruments.

Experience working within asset management, financial services, or another complex enterprise

technology environment is beneficial.

An individual who has a passion for AI, loves solving deep and complex technical and business problems and wants to have an outsized impact through the systems and products they build. An individual with a passion for technology and engineering, a high level of intellectual curiosity, a commitment to excellence, and an unparalleled drive to deliver world-class solutions.

Interested Candidates

If you or anyone in your network would be interested in this opportunity, please send your resume to Jerry Goldberg at

jgoldberg@jharlan.com

or contact us directly at (212) 792-0099.

About the Client

The firm is a publicly owned global asset management firm with $1.8 trillion dollars of AUM. The firm offers funds, advisory services, account management, and retirement plans and services for individuals, institutions, and financial intermediaries.

The talent and dedication of their people is critical to their success. They offer an opportunity for developing one's professional career while working with individuals trained in a variety of disciplines in a collegial and dynamic environment. They offer a broad range of competitive benefits on a global basis.

They seek candidates who are high-energy self-starters who want to join an investment management firm on the leading edge of the global markets. The management team needs individuals of the highest professional caliber who are leaders, problem solvers, analytic, detail-oriented, and entrepreneurial. Everyone at the firm works side-by-side with the firm's senior management in a highly collaborative and charged environment.

Successful candidates are:

• Analytic and relentless in pursuit of the right answer

• Strong communicators who excel at rapid synthesis

• Able to demonstrate sound business judgment

• Able to digest complexity while maintaining an understanding of the big picture of business needs

• Team players who are energized by a collaborative enterprise

The firm's employees maintain the highest professional and ethical standards. The firm has earned a reputation for honesty, fair dealing, and transparency in a competitive industry. They believe that these standards are the foundation for superior investment performance and are critical to delivering performance to clients

Compensation

SALARY RANGE: The salary range is $121,000 - $206,000 plus employees may also be eligible for annual discretionary incentive compensation. Actual compensation within that range will be dependent upon the individual's skills, experience, qualifications, location, and applicable laws.

Work Flexibility: This role is eligible for hybrid work, with up to three days per week working from home.

Benefits: The firm invests in its people through a broad range of programs and benefits, including:

• Competitive pay and bonuses as well as a generous retirement plan and employee stock purchase plan with matching contributions

• Flexible and remote work opportunities

• Health care benefits (medical, dental, vision)

• Tuition assistance

• Wellness programs (fitness reimbursement, Employee Assistance Program)

• Paid time off for vacation, illness, medical appointments, and volunteering days

• Family care resources, including fertility and adoption benefit

Work Authorization

Applicants for employment in the US must have work authorization that does not now or in the future require sponsorship of a visa for employment authorization in the United States (e.g., H1-B visa, F-1 visa (OPT), TN visa or any other non-immigrant work status).

FINRA licenses are not required and will not be supported for this role.

'J Harlan Group, LLC' is an executive search and advisory firm specializing in recruiting for Financial Services, Management Consulting and Public Accounting companies. The organization is a global leader in professional staffing and consulting services working with major companies in the US and Global investment capitals around the world. Built by industry leaders to meet the talent demand needs for highly professional and specialized roles, J Harlan Group, LLC operates under the highest level of professional and quality standards providing a customized project approach for each client and search assignment.