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Applied AI/ML Sr. Associate - Small Business

New York, NY, USFull-time2026-11-05 → 2026-11-09

Core

Develop and operate agentic AI products supporting Small Business Lending by building prompts, tool usage, memory, and routing to shape agent behavior.

Role type

Senior IC applied AI/ML scientist (agentic AI)

Builds

Agentic AI systems with LLM orchestration for small business lending

Domain

Financial services / Generative AI

Deliverable

production ML models

Required skills

Python (async, API), LLM orchestration (LangChain, LangGraph), model fine-tuning (SLMs, open-weight), evaluation frameworks (deepeval), vector databases, MLOps, PyTorch/scikit-learn

Preferred skills

Tracing observability (Arize Phoenix), RAG implementation

Technologies

LangChain, LangGraph, FastAPI, Flask, deepeval, Arize Phoenix, PyTorch, scikit-learn, vector databases

Responsibilities

Design, build, and deploy ML and generative AI solutions; Build agentic AI systems with LLM orchestration frameworks; Evaluate agent performance with golden/adversarial test sets and LLM-judge rubrics; Fine-tune SLMs and open-weight models; Implement and tune safety guardrails (prompt-injection defenses, PII handling); Partner with data scientists and product teams to turn requirements into scalable solutions; Apply MLOps practices (CI/CD, versioning, observability)

Seniority

Senior, hands-on IC