2 months ago
Base Salary
$142k - $213k/yr
Responsibilities
- Lead AI agent development, architecture, deployment, and integration with enterprise systems.
- Architect autonomous AI systems, virtual assistants, chatbots, and conversational AI platforms.
- Build Python backend services using FastAPI and asyncio, secure REST APIs, and robust data pipelines.
- Optimize agent performance, latency, and cost using profiling, caching, knowledge graphs, and distributed-system techniques.
- Establish CI/CD practices for automated testing, agent evaluation, API and ML-model deployment, and code quality.
- Analyze vulnerabilities, conduct testing and debugging, troubleshoot software issues, and ensure resilient error handling and fault tolerance.
- Collaborate with cross-functional stakeholders to gather requirements, design solutions, deliver software, and provide technical consultation.
- Mentor and coach engineering teams, serve as a subject matter expert, and provide GenAI thought leadership.
- Assess business and technology risks, support regulatory compliance, and escalate control issues transparently.
Requirements
- 6+ years of software development experience with strong Python experience.
- Bachelor’s or university degree, or equivalent experience; a master’s degree is preferred.
- Extensive hands-on experience with GenAI, LLMs, transformer architecture, RAG, and agentic frameworks such as Google ADK, LangChain, and LangGraph.
- Expert Python proficiency for AI/ML development, data engineering, and backend services, with strong knowledge of software design patterns, data structures, and algorithms.
- Experience with LLM fine-tuning, hybrid search, multivector retrieval, and production RAG systems.
- Experience with AI development tools such as Claude Code, Devin AI, Cursor, and Copilot.
- Experience with Docker, Kubernetes or equivalent cloud orchestration, CI/CD pipelines, distributed systems, event-driven architectures, container-based microservices, and distributed logs.
- Ability to architect and deploy high-performance, large-scale AI/ML systems in production.
- Expert understanding of machine learning and generative AI techniques, complex API integrations, and enterprise system connectivity.
- Java, Spring Boot, SQL, React, or Angular experience is a plus.
- Strong problem-solving, analytical, communication, leadership, and mentoring abilities.
Benefits
- Full-time position based in Jersey City, New Jersey.
- Medical, dental, and vision coverage for eligible employees.
- 401(k), life, accident, and disability insurance.
- Wellness programs.
- Paid vacation, sick leave, and holidays.
- Eligible employees may receive discretionary and formulaic incentive and retention awards.
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About Citi
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.