Senior Associate, AI Engineering
Ares Management Corporation22 hours ago
Base Salary
$150k - $175k/yr
Responsibilities
- Design, develop, test, deploy, and operate production-grade AI services and applications.
- Write maintainable Python code and develop APIs, services, SDKs, libraries, and reusable AI components.
- Build RAG capabilities using embeddings, semantic and hybrid search, vector databases, document processing, and structured data retrieval.
- Develop agentic and multi-step workflows with model reasoning, tools, enterprise data, application services, prompt templates, and structured outputs.
- Contribute to AI gateway, model access, routing, resiliency, usage tracking, cost management, prompt management, and model deployment capabilities.
- Integrate AI services with enterprise data products, applications, APIs, governed data sources, and internal systems.
- Build CI/CD pipelines, automated tests, monitoring, telemetry, logging, tracing, rollback mechanisms, and production-support processes.
- Implement secure access, authentication, authorization, secrets management, encryption, entitlement-aware data access, and AI governance controls.
- Partner with AI product, data engineering, application, cybersecurity, and business teams to deliver AI use cases into production.
- Create documentation, examples, reference implementations, and reusable engineering patterns.
Requirements
- Bachelor’s degree in Computer Science, Engineering, Mathematics, Data Science, or a related technical discipline.
- At least 4 years of professional software engineering, data engineering, machine learning engineering, or related experience.
- Hands-on experience developing machine learning, Generative AI, LLM, or data-intensive applications.
- Strong Python development skills and experience writing production-quality software.
- Experience designing or consuming APIs, services, and cloud-based applications, preferably on Azure.
- Practical experience with Generative AI techniques such as RAG, embeddings, vector search, prompt engineering, structured generation, tool use, or agentic workflows.
- Familiarity with Git, automated testing, CI/CD, containers, and production monitoring.
- Strong problem-solving, debugging, ownership, communication, and collaborative engineering skills.
- Preferred experience includes Databricks, Delta Lake, Unity Catalog, MLflow, Vector Search, Azure OpenAI, Azure AI services, OpenAI, Anthropic, LangGraph, LangChain, LlamaIndex, Semantic Kernel, AutoGen, Model Context Protocol, LLM evaluation, observability, governed enterprise data, and regulated or financial-services environments.
Benefits
- Benefits include medical, prescription, dental, and vision plans; 401(k) matching; FSA and HSA programs; life and disability insurance; employee assistance; commuter benefits; medical advisory, mental health, mindfulness, wellbeing, and financial wellness programs; new parent leave; reproductive and adoption assistance; emergency backup care; matching gifts; and education sponsorship.
- Applications are accepted on an ongoing basis until the search is no longer active.
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About Ares Management Corporation
Ares Management Corporation is a global alternative investment manager that raises and manages funds across credit, private equity, real estate, and infrastructure for institutional and individual investors. It earns management and performance fees by investing and providing direct lending and other financing solutions to businesses and assets worldwide. Founded in 1997 and headquartered in Los Angeles, Ares is a publicly traded company on the NYSE (ticker: ARES) with operations across multiple continents.