Senior AI Software Engineer — T. Rowe Price Lab (NY or MD)
T. Rowe Price21 hours ago
Base Salary
$121k - $258k/yr
Responsibilities
- Own the architecture, implementation, testing, evaluation, deployment, observability, and production support of AI agents and intelligent systems.
- Design agentic workflows using orchestration, tool and function calling, retrieval-based systems, structured outputs, context management, and human-in-the-loop patterns.
- Partner with product owners, business stakeholders, and technology teams to translate complex problems into scalable AI solutions.
- Lead technical workstreams from experimentation and validation through production adoption and business-aligned technology-team transfer.
- Establish evaluation, regression testing, failure analysis, quality metrics, and production monitoring for non-deterministic AI systems.
- Make engineering trade-offs involving models, prompts, context, tools, latency, cost, reliability, security, and maintainability.
- Develop reusable AI capabilities and shared engineering patterns, lead code and design reviews, and mentor less-experienced engineers.
- Evaluate emerging AI technologies and improve the quality, reliability, and maintainability of production systems.
Requirements
- BS or MS in Computer Science or a related technical field, or equivalent practical experience.
- 5+ years of professional software engineering experience.
- Strong hands-on development experience in Python, Java, or JavaScript/TypeScript.
- Experience building AI-enabled applications, intelligent workflows, or agentic systems with modern LLMs and AI development frameworks.
- Experience with agent orchestration, tool or function calling, retrieval-based systems, prompt and context engineering, structured outputs, evaluation, observability, or guardrails.
- Experience taking AI-enabled systems from prototypes into production, including testing, monitoring, reliability, security, and operational considerations.
- Strong experience with cloud-native architectures, containerized microservices, APIs, and modern software delivery practices.
- Strong analytical, problem-solving, software design, debugging, communication, and independent technical ownership skills.
- Experience with automated testing, code reviews, observability, and continuous delivery.
- Preferred: experience mentoring engineers or leading technical workstreams, and understanding of financial markets, asset management, or financial instruments.
Benefits
- Hybrid work schedule with up to three days per week from home.
- Competitive compensation and annual bonus eligibility.
- Generous retirement plan.
- Health and wellness benefits, including online therapy.
- Paid time off for vacation, illness, medical appointments, and volunteering days.
- Family care resources, including fertility and adoption benefits.
- Positions are available in New York City or Baltimore, Maryland.
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About T. Rowe Price
T. Rowe Price is a global asset manager that designs and distributes mutual funds, ETFs, separate accounts, and retirement solutions for individuals, financial advisors, institutions, and plan sponsors. It earns management and advisory fees for actively managed equity, fixed income, and multi-asset strategies, and also provides subadvisory services and brokerage. Founded in 1937 and headquartered in Baltimore, it is a public company listed on Nasdaq under the ticker TROW.