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AI Engineer 3 (AI Foundations)

McLean, VA, US💼 Full-time💰 $161,800–$161,800🗓 2026-09-18 → 2026-09-26

Core

Design, develop, test, deploy, and support AI software components including foundation model training, LLM inference, agents, and multi-agent workflows to build scalable, high-performance AI infrastructure.

Role type

Senior IC AI Engineer (AI Foundations)

Builds

Proprietary AI platforms and foundation model systems that empower teams across the company to enhance products with AI.

Domain

Banking / Applied AI & Machine Learning

Deliverable

production ML models

Required skills

Foundation model training, large language model inference, agent and multi-agent workflow development, model optimization (scalability, cost, latency), model evaluation and governance, scalable pipeline implementation, dataset curation, prompt engineering, safety guardrails, RAG, vector database integrations

Preferred skills

Tradeoff decisions around cost/latency/throughput/accuracy, deploying scalable AI on cloud platforms, agentic AI systems development, LLM performance optimization, red-teaming methodologies

Technologies

AWS Ultraclusters, Huggingface, VectorDBs, PyTorch, CUDA, Python, Go, Scala, Java, C++, C#

Responsibilities

Partner with cross-functional teams to deliver AI-powered products; Invent and introduce state-of-the-art foundation model optimization techniques; Lead development and benchmarking of multi-turn conversational and tool-using agent workflows; Collaborate with research teams to curate high-quality datasets; Contribute to governance and security efforts for model traceability; Mentor junior AI engineers

Seniority

Senior, hands-on IC

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