AI Engineer III - Global Dining Technology
American Express22 hours ago
Base Salary
$104k - $175k/yr
Responsibilities
- Contribute to the design and implementation of LLM-powered and agentic product features.
- Build and extend agentic AI workflows that reason over context, call tools, and perform actions under senior-engineer guidance.
- Implement and maintain 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.
- 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.
Requirements
- At least 4 years of professional software engineering experience.
- Hands-on experience building or contributing to AI-powered features, LLM-based applications, or applied ML systems through professional or project-based work.
- Solid engineering fundamentals in at least one backend language: Python, Go, or TypeScript.
- Familiarity with APIs, basic cloud concepts, and modern development practices.
- Interest in agentic AI systems, autonomy, and AI-assisted development workflows.
- Willingness to learn, take feedback, and grow technical ownership over time.
- Comfort working in collaborative, cross-functional teams with a strong customer mindset.
- Preferred qualifications include exposure to LLM tooling, prompt engineering, RAG, or agent frameworks; internship or early-career experience in fintech or regulated environments; and contributions to open-source projects, hackathons, or AI or developer-tooling projects.
Benefits
- Competitive base salaries and bonus incentives.
- 6% company match on the retirement savings plan.
- Free financial coaching and financial well-being 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 for pregnancy, adoption, or surrogacy.
- Access to global onsite wellness centers, depending on location.
- Free confidential counseling through the Healthy Minds program.
- Career development and training opportunities.
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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.