A leading financial services organization is seeking a Principal AI Software Engineer to help define and build the next generation of AI-powered products, intelligent workflows, and internal AI platforms. This is a high impact individual contributor role focused on taking AI initiatives from concept to production while partnering closely with stakeholders internally as well as external clients.
What You'll Be Doing:
Build and deploy production-grade AI applications and agentic workflows.
Design scalable backend services and AI platform capabilities that can be leveraged across multiple teams.
Develop systems utilizing LLMs, RAG, embeddings, vector search, agent frameworks, and workflow orchestration.
Establish best practices for AI evaluation, observability, testing, reliability, and governance.
Drive technical architecture decisions and mentor engineers across the organization.
Partner with stakeholders to identify high-impact opportunities for AI-driven automation and decision support.
What We're Looking For:
12+ years of software engineering experience.
Deep expertise in Python and backend application development.
Proven track record building and scaling production AI/ML systems.
Hands-on production experience with LLMs, agentic AI, RAG, embeddings, model evaluation, and modern AI frameworks.
Strong system design and architecture experience.
Excellent communication and stakeholder management skills. This role requires frequent collaboration with technical and non-technical teams and the ability to translate complex concepts into business value.
Prior experience in financial services, fintech, capital markets, real estate technology, or other highly regulated industries is a plus.
Additional Information
Base salary targeted at $250,000 - $300,000 plus discretionary bonus.
Applicants must be authorized to work in the United States. Visa sponsorship is not available for this position.
If you're interested in building production AI systems with significant ownership and business impact, apply now!
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Numbers & Facts
Location
NY
Salary
$250,000–$300,000 Per Year
Skills
Artificial Intelligence (AI)unmatched
Automationunmatched
Best Practicesunmatched
Capital Marketsunmatched
Communication Skillsunmatched
Decision Supportunmatched
Financial Servicesunmatched
Mentoringunmatched
Production Systemsunmatched
Python Programming/Scripting Languageunmatched
Real Estateunmatched
Reliability Testingunmatched
Search Agentunmatched
Software Developmentunmatched
Software Engineeringunmatched
System Architectureunmatched
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