Citi

Principal AI Engineer - Vice President

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3 months ago
Tampa, FL, USAStaff+
H1B sponsor

Base Salary

$126k - $188k/yr

Responsibilities

  • Design and build scalable agentic AI systems with autonomous agents, multi-agent orchestration, tool use, and adaptive decision-making workflows.
  • Define end-to-end AI system architectures covering knowledge integration, orchestration, pipelines, observability, governance, and failover.
  • Integrate and harmonize data from APIs, databases, internal platforms, and unstructured sources, including pipelines optimized for LLM workloads.
  • Build and optimize RAG architectures, including hybrid retrieval, query planning, semantic indexing, and vector search.
  • Develop, tune, and deploy applications using major LLMs and engineer prompts, system instructions, guardrails, and evaluation pipelines.
  • Deploy and support production GenAI applications using containerized infrastructure, CI/CD, monitoring, model versioning, and rollback strategies.
  • Serve as an AI engineering subject-matter expert, mentor mid-level engineers, and influence product and platform strategy.

Requirements

  • 10+ years of experience in software engineering, AI/ML engineering, systems architecture, or related fields.
  • Proven experience designing and deploying enterprise-grade AI systems in production.
  • Strong foundations in machine learning, NLP, embeddings, statistics, neural networks, and LLMs.
  • Hands-on experience with LLMs including Gemini, OpenAI, Claude, Mistral, Llama, and open-source models.
  • Deep expertise in RAG architectures, retrieval optimization, vector search, and semantic data modeling.
  • Experience building agentic AI with Google ADK or LangGraph.
  • Strong proficiency in Python and relevant AI, data, and application libraries.
  • Experience with vector databases and large-scale unstructured data processing pipelines.
  • Strong CI/CD experience and expertise deploying GenAI solutions with Kubernetes, Docker, Helm, serverless runtimes, or cloud-native LLM services.
  • Experience with AI workload monitoring, observability, logging, MLOps, or AIOps.
  • Bachelor’s degree or equivalent experience required; a master’s degree is preferred.
  • Preferred experience includes regulated or enterprise AI environments, knowledge graphs, graph databases, enterprise metadata systems, agent monitoring, and AI governance frameworks.
  • Exceptional problem-solving, analytical, collaboration, independent execution, and responsible-AI skills.

Benefits

  • Medical, dental, and vision coverage.
  • 401(k), life, accident, and disability insurance.
  • Wellness programs.
  • Paid vacation, sick leave, and holidays.
  • Full-time role based in Tampa, Florida.
  • Base salary range of $125,600.00 to $188,400.00, with potentially additional discretionary and formulaic incentive and retention awards.

Tech Stack

Argo CDDockerFastAPIGitHub ActionsGitLab CI/CDHelmJenkinsKubernetesNeo4jNumPyOpenShiftPandasPyTorchscikit-learnTensorFlow

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About Citi

10,000+ employees

Citi is a public financial-services company offering consumer and institutional banking, credit cards, wealth management, treasury and trade solutions, and capital-markets services. It serves individuals, corporations, financial institutions, and governments in more than 160 countries and jurisdictions, earning interest and fee income from lending, payments, trading, and advisory. Founded in 1812 and headquartered in New York, it trades on the NYSE under the ticker C.

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