Citi

AI Engineer – Startups & Partnerships

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1 day ago
Jersey City, NJ, USAMid Level
H1B sponsor

Base Salary

$142k - $213k/yr

Responsibilities

  • Build and deploy production-grade AI applications, tools, pipelines, and workflows across Citi’s lines of business.
  • Evaluate emerging LLMs, agentic frameworks, orchestration layers, platforms, and startup tools through structured proofs of concept.
  • Rapidly prototype business solutions and iterate based on stakeholder feedback.
  • Integrate LLMs and agentic systems with enterprise APIs, data pipelines, and lightweight front-end or internal tooling layers.
  • Collaborate with governance, risk, and platform teams to move validated prototypes toward scaled deployment.
  • Communicate technical work and business impact to senior business and technology stakeholders.

Requirements

  • Bachelor’s or university degree, or equivalent experience; a master’s degree is preferred.
  • Proven experience building and shipping AI applications, pipelines, and workflows in live production environments.
  • Hands-on proficiency with LLMs, prompt engineering, and agentic frameworks or orchestration tools such as LangChain, LlamaIndex, or AutoGen.
  • Strong full-stack software engineering fundamentals, including backend services, API integrations, and lightweight front-end or internal tooling.
  • Strong communication and stakeholder management skills, including working with business leaders and clients.
  • Experience learning and adopting new tools and platforms quickly in an evolving AI environment.
  • Preferred experience includes working with startups, venture teams, or technology scouting functions; vector databases, RAG, or knowledge graph-based retrieval; Docker and Kubernetes; regulated industries; and presenting technical concepts to senior non-technical audiences.

Benefits

  • Full-time position based in Jersey City, New Jersey.
  • Benefits may include medical, dental, and vision coverage; 401(k); life, accident, and disability insurance; and wellness programs.
  • Paid time off may include vacation, sick leave, and paid holidays.
  • Additional discretionary and formulaic incentive and retention awards may be available to eligible employees.
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About Citi

10,000+ employees

Citi is a public financial-services company offering consumer and institutional banking, credit cards, wealth management, treasury and trade solutions, and capital-markets services. It serves individuals, corporations, financial institutions, and governments in more than 160 countries and jurisdictions, earning interest and fee income from lending, payments, trading, and advisory. Founded in 1812 and headquartered in New York, it trades on the NYSE under the ticker C.

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