Senior Associate, AI Engineering
Ares Management Corporation23 hours ago
Base Salary
$150k - $170k/yr
Responsibilities
- Design, develop, test, deploy, and operate production-grade AI services and applications.
- Build RAG capabilities using embeddings, semantic and hybrid search, vector databases, document processing, and structured data retrieval.
- Develop agentic and multi-step workflows, prompt templates, structured outputs, tool-use patterns, and reusable orchestration components.
- Create enterprise AI gateway capabilities, APIs, SDKs, shared services, model-access integrations, and developer tooling.
- Integrate AI applications with enterprise data products, governed data sources, internal systems, and business workflows.
- Build CI/CD pipelines, automated tests, monitoring, telemetry, logging, tracing, rollback processes, and reliability capabilities.
- Apply secure engineering, access control, secrets management, encryption, governance, cybersecurity, and data-protection requirements.
- Troubleshoot production issues, support root-cause analysis, document reusable patterns, and collaborate with engineers, product managers, cybersecurity teams, and business stakeholders.
Requirements
- Bachelor's degree in Computer Science, Engineering, Mathematics, Data Science, or a related technical discipline.
- At least 4 years of professional experience in software engineering, data engineering, machine learning engineering, or a related field.
- Hands-on experience developing machine learning, Generative AI, LLM, or data-intensive applications.
- Strong Python development skills and experience writing production-quality software.
- Experience designing or consuming APIs, services, and cloud-based applications, preferably on Azure.
- Practical experience with RAG, embeddings, vector search, prompt engineering, structured generation, tool use, or agentic workflows.
- Familiarity with Git, automated testing, CI/CD, containers, and production monitoring.
- Preferred experience includes Databricks, Delta Lake, Unity Catalog, Model Serving, MLflow, Vector Search, Azure OpenAI, Azure AI services, OpenAI, Anthropic, LangGraph, LangChain, LlamaIndex, Semantic Kernel, AutoGen, model evaluation, LLM observability, governed enterprise data, and regulated or financial-services environments.
- Strong problem-solving, debugging, communication, collaboration, and ownership skills.
Benefits
- The anticipated base salary is $150,000-$170,000 per year, with potential discretionary performance-based bonus.
- Benefits include medical/Rx, dental and vision plans, 401(k) company match, FSA, HSA contribution, life insurance, disability insurance, employee assistance, and commuter benefits.
- Additional benefits include medical advisory services, mental health and wellbeing apps, financial wellness support, new parent leave, reproductive and adoption assistance, backup care, matching gifts, and education sponsorship.
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About Ares Management Corporation
Ares Management Corporation is a global alternative investment manager that raises and manages funds across credit, private equity, real estate, and infrastructure for institutional and individual investors. It earns management and performance fees by investing and providing direct lending and other financing solutions to businesses and assets worldwide. Founded in 1997 and headquartered in Los Angeles, Ares is a publicly traded company on the NYSE (ticker: ARES) with operations across multiple continents.