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Senior Lead AI Engineer (FM Hosting, LLM Inference)

McLean, VA, US💼 Full-time💰 $229,900–$229,900🗓 2026-01-26 → 2026-09-26

Core

Design, develop, test, deploy, and support AI software components including foundation model training, large language model inference, similarity search, guardrails, and observability to build scalable, high-performance AI infrastructure.

Role type

Senior Lead AI Engineer (LLM Inference & Hosting)

Builds

Proprietary AI systems and platforms that empower teams across the bank to enhance products with transformative AI capabilities.

Domain

Banking / Applied AI / Large Language Models

Deliverable

production ML models

Required skills

LLM inference optimization, foundation model training, similarity search, vector databases, model evaluation, system observability, hardware/software optimization, Python, Go, Scala, Java

Preferred skills

Cloud platform deployment (AWS/GCP/Azure), leading and mentoring engineering teams, cross-functional stakeholder influence, C++/C#/Golang development, state-of-the-art training/inference optimization techniques

Technologies

AWS Ultraclusters, Huggingface, VectorDBs, Nemo Guardrails, PyTorch

Responsibilities

Partner with cross-functional teams to deliver AI-powered products; Invent and introduce state-of-the-art LLM optimization techniques to improve scalability, cost, latency, and throughput; Contribute to the technical vision and long-term roadmap of foundational AI systems.

Seniority

Senior Lead, hands-on IC with mentorship responsibilities

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