Senior AI Platform Engineer

Senior AI Platform Engineer

Locations: San Francisco, CA / Jacksonville, FL / Boston, MA / New York, NY (Hybrid)

SS&C Advent's financial solutions are going Agentic! And we're growing the team to get us there. Our best-of-breed products that span the investment firm's front-to-back office will be part of the journey to digital transformation, which started with our cloud-native, award-winning Genesis Platform used by clients around the globe.

We are building a next-generation Agentic AI Framework that integrates Model Context Protocol (MCP), Agent-to-Agent (A2A) communication, Machine Learning, and advanced orchestration on top of our enterprise big data platform.

We are looking for Senior AI Platform Engineers to join our R&D team. These engineers will design and implement the core AI framework, ensuring it seamlessly integrates with our big data infrastructure, and enabling scalable, intelligent, and autonomous data-driven systems.

Why You Will Love It Here!

• Flexibility: Hybrid Work Model & a Business Casual Dress Code, including jeans
• Your Future: 401 (k) Matching Program, Professional Development Reimbursement
• Work/Life Balance: Flexible Personal/Vacation Time Off, Sick Leave, Paid Holidays
• Your Wellbeing: Medical, Dental, Vision, Employee Assistance Program, Parental Leave
• Wide Ranging Perspectives: Committed to Celebrating the Variety of Backgrounds, Talents, and Experiences of Our Employees
• Training: Hands-On, Team-Customized, including SS&C University
• Extra Perks: Discounts on fitness clubs, travel, and more!

What You Will Get to Do

• Design and build a scalable Agentic AI framework on top of our data platform.
• Implement MCP- and A2A-based architectures for agent collaboration and orchestration.
• Integrate AI services with data pipelines (Airflow, Spark, Trino, StarRocks, DBT).
• Build APIs, SDKs, and tooling to enable other teams to use the framework.
• Work with platform and application teams to ensure secure, reliable, and multi-tenant deployment of AI agents.
• Evaluate new agentic AI, LLM, and orchestration technologies and recommend adoption.
• Mentor other engineers and contribute to AI engineering best practices.

What You Will Bring

Core Skills (Must-Have)

• Strong programming skills in Python with 5+ years of experience
• Proven experience with data engineering or distributed systems (Spark, Hive, Trino, StarRocks, DBT, Airflow, Kubernetes).
• Deep understanding of LLM-based systems and agent frameworks (LangChain, LlamaIndex, DSPy, OpenAI MCP, A2A).
• Hands-on experience with API design & integration (REST, GraphQL, gRPC).
• Knowledge of cloud infrastructure & container orchestration (Kubernetes, Docker).
• Strong understanding of IAM, security, and multi-tenancy in enterprise systems.
• Track record of building production-grade AI/data platforms.

Desired Skills (Nice-to-Have)

• Experience in Information Security.
• Experience with vector databases (pgvector, Pinecone, Weaviate, Milvus, Vespa).
• Familiarity with event-driven architectures (Kafka, Pulsar).
• Understanding of retrieval-augmented generation (RAG) patterns.
• Background in authorization/identity systems (ReBAC, RBAC, Zanzibar-style).
• Familiarity with observability (OpenTelemetry, DataHub, MLflow, Prometheus).
• Experience in enterprise AI governance (audit, lineage, compliance).
• Contributions to open-source AI frameworks (LangChain, OpenAI MCP, Hugging Face, etc.).

SS&C Technologies offers a comprehensive total rewards package designed to support your wellbeing, growth, and future. Our benefits include medical, dental, and vision coverage; a 401(k) plan with company match; paid time off, holidays, and parental leave; and professional development reimbursement opportunity. Actual base salary will vary based on several factors, including but not limited to relevant skills, prior experience, education, demonstrated performance, and geographic location. California: The expected base salary for the position is between 140,000 USD to 180,000 USD. Other States expected base salary for the position is between 140,000 USD to 180,000 USD. Massachusetts: The expected base salary for the position is between 140,000 USD to 180,000 USD. In addition, employees in this role may be eligible for consideration on an annual basis for a discretionary bonus and/or equity awards, such as restricted stock units or stock options, based upon individual and business performance at the company's discretion.

Applications will be accepted on an ongoing basis until the position is filled.

SS&C Technologies is an Equal Employment Opportunity employer and does not discriminate against any applicant for employment or employee on the basis of race, color, religious creed, gender, age, marital status, sexual orientation, national origin, disability, veteran status or any other classification protected by applicable discrimination laws.