Senior AI Software Engineer — T. Rowe Price Labs
T. Rowe Price1 day 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 involving orchestration, tool integration, retrieval-based systems, structured outputs, context management, and human-in-the-loop patterns.
- Partner with product owners and business stakeholders to translate complex or ambiguous needs into scalable AI solutions.
- Lead technical workstreams from experimentation and validation through production adoption.
- Establish quality metrics, regression testing, failure analysis, and production monitoring for non-deterministic AI systems.
- Make engineering trade-offs across models, prompts, context, tools, latency, cost, reliability, security, and maintainability.
- Develop reusable AI capabilities and shared engineering patterns across teams.
- Lead code and design reviews, mentor less-experienced engineers, and resolve complex technical problems.
- Evaluate emerging AI technologies and determine how they can deliver business value.
- Prepare successful AI solutions for long-term ownership and scale by business-aligned technology teams.
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 with object-oriented languages such as Python, Java, or JavaScript/TypeScript.
- Experience building AI-enabled applications, intelligent workflows, or agentic systems using 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 to 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, and debugging skills.
- Commitment to engineering quality through automated testing, code reviews, observability, and continuous delivery.
- Ability to independently own complex technical problems and communicate designs, decisions, and trade-offs clearly.
- Product mindset, learning agility, and interest in current AI engineering developments.
- Preferred experience mentoring engineers or leading technical workstreams.
- Preferred understanding of financial markets, asset management, or financial instruments.
Benefits
- Base compensation is supplemented by potential discretionary bonus eligibility.
- Generous retirement plan.
- Hybrid work schedule with up to three days per week from home.
- 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.
- Openings are available in New York City or Harbor Point, 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.