AI Engineer III
American Express12 hours ago
Sunrise, FL, USASenior
Base Salary
$104k - $175k/yr
Responsibilities
- Design and implement LLM-powered and agentic product features.
- Build and extend agentic workflows that reason over context, call tools, and perform actions.
- Implement and maintain retrieval-augmented generation pipelines over financial data.
- Contribute to shared AI infrastructure, including LLM services, orchestration components, and evaluation or monitoring tooling.
- Monitor, debug, and improve the reliability and performance of AI systems in production.
- Collaborate with product and design partners to translate customer needs into technical solutions.
Requirements
- Require 4+ years of professional software engineering experience.
- Require some hands-on experience with AI-powered features, LLM-based applications, or applied ML systems through professional or project-based work.
- Require solid engineering fundamentals in at least one backend language: Python, Go, or TypeScript.
- Require familiarity with APIs, basic cloud concepts, and modern development practices.
- Require interest in agentic AI systems, autonomy, and AI-assisted development workflows.
- Require a bachelor’s degree.
- Preferred qualifications include exposure to LLM tooling, prompt engineering, RAG, or agent frameworks through work, coursework, or personal projects.
- Preferred qualifications include internship or early-career experience in fintech or other regulated environments.
- Preferred qualifications include contributions to open-source projects, hackathons, or AI- or developer-tooling-related side projects.
- Require collaborative cross-functional working ability, willingness to learn and take feedback, and a customer mindset.
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About American Express
American Express builds a global payments network and issues consumer, small-business, and corporate cards, plus merchant acquiring and travel services. Revenue comes from card fees, interest and lending, discount/merchant fees, and network services. Founded in 1850 and headquartered in New York City, it operates the Amex acceptance network worldwide and offers co-branded cards and membership rewards across millions of cardmembers and merchants; ticker NYSE: AXP.