AI Agent & Infrastructure - Lead Engineer
Financial Industry Regulatory Authority, Inc. (FINRA)1 day ago
Rockville, MD, USAStaff+
Base Salary
$114k - $249k/yr
Responsibilities
- Develop production-grade AI agents that automate software development lifecycle handoffs and workflows.
- Build custom integrations, CLI tools, scaffolding, agent frameworks, templates, SDKs, and developer productivity tooling.
- Architect and maintain infrastructure for agent deployment, lifecycle management, governance, permissions, communication, and scaling.
- Create and govern a Model Context Protocol catalog for agent-to-agent and agent-to-MCP communication.
- Design testing strategies, metrics, monitoring, logging, dashboards, alerting, anomaly detection, and observability systems for agents and development workflows.
- Establish KPIs and analyze telemetry to measure automation impact, identify optimization opportunities, and guide investment decisions.
- Identify AI-first SDLC opportunities, rapidly prototype solutions, validate use cases, and communicate data-driven findings.
- Partner across teams to drive adoption of AI-powered tooling, coach colleagues, and mentor Software Engineers.
Requirements
- Bachelor’s degree in Computer Science, Information Systems, or a related discipline, with at least seven years of related experience, or equivalent training and/or work experience.
- Strong experience in system design, object-oriented development, cloud technologies, data storage technologies, performance tuning and optimization, DevOps and CI/CD technologies, test automation and unit testing, and software security.
- Full-stack technical proficiency with Java, Python, JavaScript/TypeScript, Angular, Spring Boot, AWS, and monitoring or observability tools such as Prometheus, Grafana, and CloudWatch.
- Ability to make architectural trade-offs, identify high-impact automation opportunities, work through ambiguity and experimentation, and communicate clearly with stakeholders.
- Experience developing production-grade AI agents, orchestration frameworks, automation solutions, or related infrastructure is relevant to the role.
Benefits
- Hybrid work environment with defined in-person presence requirements; occasional travel and extended hours may be required.
- Comprehensive health, dental, and vision insurance, plus life, disability, long-term care, legal, and business travel accident coverage.
- 401(k) plan with immediate participation and vesting, company match, and eligibility for an additional FINRA-funded retirement contribution.
- Tuition reimbursement, commuter benefits, adoption assistance, backup family care, surrogacy benefits, employee assistance, and wellness programs.
- Paid time off starting at 15 days and increasing with tenure, five personal days, nine sick days, two volunteer service days, paid holidays, and other paid leave.
- Employees may be eligible for a discretionary bonus and non-exempt employees may be eligible for overtime pay.
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About Financial Industry Regulatory Authority, Inc. (FINRA)
FINRA is the U.S. self-regulatory organization for broker-dealers, writing and enforcing rules, examining firms, surveilling markets, and running investor tools like BrokerCheck. A nonprofit formed in 2007 and headquartered in Washington, DC, it oversees compliance for over 3,300 firms and 610,000 registered brokers. FINRA is funded by member assessments and regulatory fees rather than taxpayer dollars, and builds large-scale data and surveillance systems used across U.S. securities markets.