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Sr AI Engineer II - Enterprise Architecture
NEW YORK · US
$123K–$215K
Full-time
SENIOR
About the Role
American Express is seeking a Senior AI Engineer to build production-grade agentic AI systems that operate on real financial data. The role involves designing LLM-powered features, RAG pipelines, and shared AI infrastructure while ensuring security, reliability, and compliance in a regulated environment. You will work end-to-end with product and design partners to deliver customer-facing and internal AI capabilities.
Responsibilities
- Design, build, and ship LLM-powered and agentic product features.
- Build agentic AI systems that reason over context, invoke tools, and recover gracefully from failure.
- Architect and implement production-grade RAG pipelines over sensitive financial data.
- Contribute to shared AI infrastructure including LLM services, agent orchestration frameworks, and evaluation tooling.
- Own systems in production, including reliability, latency, cost, and failure modes.
- Work closely with product and design partners to drive customer outcomes.
Requirements
- 5+ years of software engineering experience, including production experience with LLMs or applied ML systems.
- Track record of shipping AI-powered or agentic systems that real users depend on.
- Strong engineering fundamentals across backend systems, APIs, data pipelines, and cloud infrastructure.
- Hands-on experience with modern LLM tooling and agentic patterns.
American Express
New York · US · 75100+ employees
American Express is a globally integrated payments company that offers credit cards, charge cards, and payment services to consumers, small businesses, and corporations worldwide. It also provides travel and lifestyle services.
