Associate Principal, Artificial Intelligence Engineering
Office of the Comptroller of the Currency21 days ago
Base Salary
$128k - $177k/yr
Responsibilities
- Own the architecture, implementation, and production delivery of agentic AI systems end to end.
- Design agent orchestration patterns, tool and context integrations, and reliability-focused evaluation pipelines.
- Own AWS-based AI infrastructure and help develop the team’s infrastructure self-sufficiency.
- Implement safeguards for hallucinations, prompt injection, output validation, and other AI-specific risks.
- Build audit logging and human-in-the-loop checkpoints for traceable and reviewable agent workflows.
- Mentor Associate and Senior Associate engineers through code and architecture reviews.
- Contribute technical standards and engineering practices in partnership with the Executive Director.
Requirements
- Bachelor’s degree in Computer Science, Engineering, or a related technical field; a master’s degree is preferred.
- 4–7 years of software engineering experience, with production AI or LLM systems experience preferred.
- Strong Python, proficient SQL, and solid distributed systems and API design fundamentals.
- Hands-on experience building LLM-powered applications or agentic systems.
- Working knowledge of prompt injection, output validation, hallucination mitigation, data privacy, or the ability to build this expertise quickly.
- Cloud infrastructure experience, preferably AWS, with comfort using Docker and containerization fundamentals.
- Experience mentoring or elevating junior engineers and owning production systems from design through deployment.
- Preferred qualifications include Claude, Anthropic API, Claude.ai or Console, agent orchestration, MCP integrations, Kubernetes, Terraform, regulated-industry experience, AI red-teaming or adversarial testing, and data engineering.
Benefits
- Hybrid work environment with up to 2 days per week of remote work.
- Tuition reimbursement and student loan repayment assistance.
- Technology stipend for remote network access using a device of choice.
- Generous paid time off and parental leave.
- 401(k) employer match.
- Competitive medical, dental, and vision benefits.