American Express

Sr AI Engineer II - Enterprise Architecture

American Express
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12 hours ago
Phoenix, AZ, USASenior

Base Salary

$123k - $215k/yr

Responsibilities

  • Design, build, and ship LLM-powered and agentic product features for customer financial experiences.
  • Build agentic systems that reason over context, invoke tools, take real actions, and recover from failures.
  • Architect and implement production-grade RAG pipelines over sensitive financial data with correctness, auditability, and safety requirements.
  • Contribute to shared LLM services, agent orchestration frameworks, and evaluation and monitoring tooling.
  • Own production systems, including reliability, latency, cost, and failure modes.
  • Partner with product and design teams while focusing on customer outcomes and reliable delivery.

Requirements

  • 5+ years of software engineering experience, including meaningful production experience with LLMs or applied ML systems.
  • A track record of shipping AI-powered or agentic systems used by real users.
  • Strong fundamentals in backend systems, APIs, data pipelines, and cloud infrastructure.
  • Hands-on experience with modern LLM tooling and agentic patterns and architectures.
  • Fluency with AI-assisted and agentic development workflows.
  • Strong ownership, technical judgment, product mindset, and customer orientation.
  • Preferred: experience building agentic systems in fintech or regulated industries.
  • Preferred: founding-engineer or early technical contributor experience in high-growth environments.
  • Preferred: experience shipping complex systems in regulated contexts and meaningful open-source contributions in AI or developer tooling.
American Express

About American Express

10,000+ employees

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.

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