AI Engineer III
American Express15 hours ago
Sunrise, FL, USAMid Level / Senior
Base Salary
$104k - $175k/yr
Responsibilities
- Build and extend production LLM-powered and agentic AI features and workflows.
- Implement retrieval-augmented generation pipelines over financial data with emphasis on correctness and safety.
- Contribute to shared AI infrastructure, including LLM services, orchestration components, and evaluation or monitoring tooling.
- Write production code, participate in system design, and help operate systems after launch.
- Monitor, debug, and improve the reliability and performance of AI systems in production.
- Collaborate with product and design partners to translate customer needs into technical solutions.
- Use Claude and Codex responsibly for code generation, review, testing, and documentation while validating outputs.
Requirements
- 3 to 5+ years of software development experience with a proven track record of building data-driven products.
- Proficiency in Python for ML/AI and/or Java.
- Hands-on experience with Airflow, MLflow, and LLM engineering, including RAG, fine-tuning, and AI agents.
- Experience with REST and gRPC APIs and event-driven distributed architectures including Kafka.
- BS or MS degree in Computer Science, Computer Engineering, or a similar discipline.
- Ability to operate with high autonomy and contribute to scalable architectural design.
Benefits
- Competitive base salaries and bonus incentives.
- 6% company match on the retirement savings plan and financial coaching support.
- Comprehensive medical, dental, vision, life insurance, and disability benefits.
- Flexible working model with hybrid, onsite, or virtual arrangements depending on role and business need.
- 20+ weeks of paid parental leave for all parents.
- Access to onsite wellness centers, counseling support through the Healthy Minds program, and career development and training opportunities.
Tech Stack
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About American Express
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.