Senior AI Engineer (New York)

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We are a specialized technology staffing agency supporting professional and financial services companies. Why do we stand out in technology staffing? We listen and act as advisors for our candidates on how they can best add value, find interesting projects, and pave a path for career advancement. We advocate for the best pay, diversity in tech, and the best job fit for every candidate we place.

Our client, an investment firm, is seeking a Senior AI Engineer to join their team in New York, NY!

This role is ideal for an experienced software engineer who understands how to design and build enterprise-scale systems while thoughtfully incorporating modern AI technologies into production environments.

Responsibilities

• Lead AI engineering initiatives from concept through production deployment.
• Design and build scalable enterprise applications using Python and modern software engineering best practices.
• Partner with business stakeholders to identify high-value AI opportunities and translate them into technical solutions.
• Make architectural decisions around AI model selection, orchestration, retrieval strategies, and system design.
• Build AI-powered applications leveraging enterprise data while ensuring scalability, maintainability, and cost efficiency.
• Evaluate tradeoffs between different LLMs, AI frameworks, and implementation approaches.
• Establish engineering standards and best practices for AI development, code quality, testing, and deployment.
• Mentor engineers through technical guidance and thoughtful collaboration.
• Collaborate across engineering teams to integrate AI capabilities into existing enterprise platforms.

Qualifications

• 8+ years of software engineering experience building enterprise applications.
• Strong Python development experience.
• Experience designing distributed, scalable systems and enterprise architecture.
• Experience building and deploying production software at scale.
• Working knowledge of modern AI technologies including LLMs, prompt engineering, RAG, agentic workflows, or AI APIs.
• Experience evaluating technical tradeoffs between AI models and implementation approaches.
• Familiarity with modern frontend frameworks such as React or JavaScript.
• Strong system design skills.
• Excellent communication and stakeholder management abilities.

Preferred Experience

• Experience building AI-enabled enterprise applications.
• Experience operating within large enterprise technology environments.
• Exposure to cloud-native architectures and modern engineering practices.
• Financial services experience is helpful but not required.

What Makes Someone Successful

• Strong engineering fundamentals first, AI expertise second.
• Comfortable solving ambiguous, open-ended technical problems.
• Intellectually curious and continuously learning.
• Emotionally resilient when working with demanding stakeholders.
• Collaborative and humble, with an eagerness to challenge ideas rather than people.

Pay Rate: $110 - $150/hr

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