AI Engineer III
American Express2 days ago
Base Salary
$104k - $175k/yr
Responsibilities
- Design and implement LLM-powered and agentic product features.
- Build and extend agentic AI workflows that reason over context, call tools, and perform actions.
- Implement and maintain retrieval-augmented generation pipelines over financial data with emphasis on correctness and safety.
- 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
- At least 4 years of professional software engineering experience.
- Hands-on experience building or contributing to AI-powered features, LLM-based applications, or applied ML systems through professional or project-based work.
- Strong engineering fundamentals in at least one backend language: Python, Go, or TypeScript.
- Familiarity with APIs, basic cloud concepts, and modern development practices.
- Interest in agentic AI systems, autonomy, and AI-assisted development workflows.
- Bachelor’s degree required.
- Preferred: exposure to LLM tooling, prompt engineering, RAG, or agent frameworks.
- Preferred: internship or early-career experience in fintech or other regulated environments.
- Preferred: open-source, hackathon, or side-project contributions related to AI or developer tooling.
Benefits
- Mentorship and opportunities to grow technical depth in LLMs, agentic systems, and production AI engineering.
- Opportunity to work on enterprise-scale AI platforms and customer-facing systems in a regulated financial-services environment.
- American Express may provide visa sponsorship for certain positions depending on business unit requirements, the nature of the position, cost, and applicable laws.
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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.