About this role
Accountabilities
- Lead, coach, and develop the AI Transformation engineering team, including hiring, performance management, career development, and team growth.
- Build a high-performing and accountable engineering culture that encourages technical excellence, innovation, collaboration, and continuous learning.
- Own the architecture, engineering delivery, quality, reliability, and operational health of AI solutions, including agents, plugins, skills, evaluation harnesses, integrations, and usage analytics.
- Guide technical decisions involving agentic workflows, LLM integrations, MCP-based orchestration, and related AI development patterns.
- Establish and enforce engineering standards covering security, compliance, auditability, reliability, and maintainability within a regulated financial services environment.
- Champion modern software engineering practices, including AI-assisted development and agentic workflows that improve engineering productivity and delivery velocity.
- Partner with Product, business units, Security, Compliance, and enterprise AI governance stakeholders to align technical execution with business priorities.
- Lead delivery across initiatives involving multiple teams and engagement models, from consulting and co-development through ongoing ownership and maintenance.
- Define and track KPIs related to AI adoption, solution quality, engineering velocity, reliability, and business impact.
- Strengthen CI/CD, observability, production support, and operational processes across the AI solution portfolio.
- Proactively manage technical debt, scalability, and platform maturity as AI adoption and the number of solutions increase.
- Identify opportunities to expand the use of AI and agentic tooling throughout the software development lifecycle.
Requirements
- 7+ years of professional software engineering experience, including at least 2 years in technical leadership or engineering management.
- Hands-on experience designing, building, and shipping LLM-powered or agentic AI products.
- Strong practical knowledge of prompting, evaluation frameworks, agent frameworks, MCP, or comparable AI orchestration technologies.
- Strong understanding of cloud-native architecture, preferably AWS or an equivalent cloud platform.
- Experience with API design, distributed systems, modern CI/CD practices, and production-grade software engineering.
- Proficiency in TypeScript and/or Python .
- Demonstrated success hiring, coaching, mentoring, and developing engineers while managing evolving technical scope.
- Strong stakeholder management and communication skills, with the ability to collaborate effectively across Product, business units, Security, Compliance, and technical teams.
- Experience operating in regulated environments such as fintech, lending, payments, or other highly controlled industries is a plus.
- Experience integrating AI or agentic development tools into the software development lifecycle to improve engineering productivity is advantageous.
- Strong architectural judgment and the ability to balance innovation with security, reliability, compliance, and operational excellence.
- Comfortable working in an ambiguous, rapidly evolving environment where priorities and technologies can change quickly.
Benefits
- Competitive annual base salary depending on location:
$185,200–$210,600 in CA, WA, NJ, MA, DC, and NYC.
- $207,900–$235,700 in the San Francisco market.
- $169,100–$191,800 in other U.S. locations.
- Potential eligibility for performance-based bonus compensation.
- Potential eligibility for equity awards.
- Fully remote work opportunity within the United States.
- Opportunity to lead an engineering team at the forefront of enterprise AI transformation.
- Hands-on exposure to LLMs, agentic AI, MCP orchestration, AI evaluation, and modern cloud-native technologies.
- Significant influence over AI architecture, engineering standards, governance, and operational practices.
- Opportunity to collaborate with cross-functional leaders across Product, business, Security, Compliance, and AI governance.
- Career growth and team-building opportunities within a rapidly evolving AI-focused function.
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