Lead AI Engineer – Generative AI & Agentic Systems (Assistant Vice President)
State StreetBase Salary
$90k - $158k/yr
Responsibilities
- Lead end-to-end delivery of enterprise generative AI and agentic AI solutions from ideation and proof of concept through production support.
- Design AI applications using large language models, retrieval-augmented generation, vector databases, semantic search, tool calling, memory, and agent orchestration.
- Build data ingestion, transformation, and retrieval pipelines in Databricks for structured and unstructured enterprise data.
- Develop secure APIs, microservices, distributed systems, and cloud-native services on AWS.
- Establish reusable frameworks, engineering standards, evaluation methods, observability, monitoring, tracing, and guardrails.
- Partner with business, product, compliance, security, cloud, data, and platform teams to deliver high-value use cases.
- Optimize solutions for performance, reliability, scalability, security, and cost efficiency.
- Provide technical leadership, mentor engineers, help build the AI engineering capability, and potentially manage direct reports.
Requirements
- Bachelor’s degree in computer science, engineering, information systems, data science, or a related field, or equivalent practical experience.
- Five or more years of technology experience, including at least two years focused on generative AI, agentic AI, machine learning, or AI platform engineering.
- Proven experience delivering enterprise applications from concept through production.
- Strong Python programming skills and experience building APIs, microservices, and distributed systems.
- Hands-on experience developing cloud-native solutions on AWS.
- Experience with Databricks, Delta Lake, data pipelines, and lakehouse architecture.
- Experience with CI/CD, GitHub, containers, infrastructure as code, application security, monitoring, and production support.
- Experience with generative and agentic AI architectures, LLMs, RAG, embeddings, vector databases, semantic search, prompt engineering, tool calling, memory, and orchestration.
- Hands-on experience with LangChain, LangGraph, CrewAI, Strands, Pydantic AI, AutoGen, or similar frameworks.
- Experience with foundation models and services such as Amazon Bedrock, OpenAI, Anthropic Claude, Llama, or comparable platforms.
- Knowledge of AI evaluation, observability, guardrails, responsible AI, and human-in-the-loop controls.
- Strong analytical, problem-solving, decision-making, communication, collaboration, and stakeholder management skills.
Benefits
- Comprehensive benefits include a 401(k) retirement savings plan with company match, life, medical, dental, vision, and long-term disability insurance, and optional additional coverage.
- Paid time off includes vacation, sick leave, short-term disability, and family care responsibilities.
- Access to an Employee Assistance Program, incentive compensation eligibility including annual performance-based awards, and certain tax-advantaged savings plans.
- Inclusive development opportunities, flexible work-life support, paid volunteer days, and employee networks are available.
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About State Street
At State Street, we deliver leading investment platforms, data, expertise, and solutions that accelerate performance and better decision making. With over 200 years of global financial leadership, we equip institutional investors through a comprehensive suite of capabilities: Investment Services: Integrated front-to-back solutions across custody, accounting, and operations. Investment Management: Index and active strategies from one of the world’s largest asset managers. Markets: Multi-asset trading, FX solutions, and data-driven research to enhance portfolio value. Who We Are • 50,000+ employees worldwide • Active in 100+ markets • #1 in ETF servicing What You’ll Find Here • Executive perspectives and thought leadership • Timely market commentary and macro insights • Our views on investment operations, ETFs, private markets, and digital finance • Stories reflecting our culture, values and commitment to diversity and inclusion