Note: The job is a remote job and is open to candidates in USA. Pear Talent - Finance Recruitment is partnering with a highly successful global multi-strategy hedge fund investing in Artificial Intelligence. They are seeking a Senior AI Engineer to design and build production-grade AI applications and platforms, working closely with senior leadership to shape the firm's AI strategy and architecture.
Responsibilities
- Design, build and deploy production-grade AI applications, platforms and agentic workflows
- Develop AI-powered copilots, knowledge assistants, automation tools and decision-support systems
- Build and maintain enterprise AI platforms supporting multiple teams and business functions
- Design multi-agent architectures incorporating planning, memory, tool use and workflow orchestration
- Develop Retrieval-Augmented Generation (RAG) solutions, semantic search capabilities and knowledge retrieval systems
- Build scalable APIs, services and infrastructure supporting AI workloads in production
- Implement AI evaluation frameworks, observability, monitoring, guardrails and quality controls
- Partner with stakeholders across technology, operations, finance, compliance and other business functions to identify and deliver high-impact AI use cases
- Evaluate emerging AI technologies and contribute to long-term platform strategy and architecture
- Drive projects from concept and experimentation through to production deployment and adoption
Skills
- 5+ years of software engineering / machine learning / AI engineering experience
- Strong hands-on experience building production AI systems using modern LLM technologies
- Experience with agentic AI frameworks such as LangGraph, LangChain, OpenAI Agents SDK, CrewAI or similar
- Experience designing and deploying RAG architectures, vector search and semantic retrieval systems
- Strong Python engineering skills and experience building APIs and microservices
- Experience with cloud platforms such as AWS, Azure or GCP
- Experience with Docker, Kubernetes and modern deployment practices
- Experience implementing evaluation, monitoring, observability and reliability controls for AI systems
- Strong system design and architecture skills
- Ability to work independently in a fast-paced, highly technical environment
- MUST be a US citizen/Green Card OR U.S. H-1B visa holder
- Financial services experience is beneficial but not required
Benefits
- Highly competitive compensation
- Direct exposure to the firm's Chief AI Officer and senior leadership
- Greenfield opportunity to help shape enterprise AI strategy and architecture
- Small, elite engineering teams with significant ownership and influence
- Opportunity to build AI systems that will have firm-wide impact
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