AI Engineer III
American Express · Palo Alto, CA · Yesterday
HybridEngineeringFull-time
Responsibilities
- Contribute to the design and implementation of LLM-powered and agentic product features.
- Build and extend agentic AI workflows that reason over context, call tools, and perform actions under guidance from senior engineers.
- Help implement and maintain retrieval-augmented generation (RAG) pipelines over financial data, with an emphasis on correctness and safety.
- Contribute to shared AI infrastructure such as LLM services, orchestration components, and evaluation or monitoring tooling.
- Participate in operating AI systems in production, including monitoring, debugging, and improving reliability and performance.
- Collaborate closely with product and design partners, learning to translate customer needs into technical solutions.
Qualifications
- 4+ years of professional software engineering experience.
- Some hands-on experience building or contributing to AI-powered features, LLM-based applications, or applied ML systems (professional or project-based).
- Solid engineering fundamentals in at least one backend language (Python, Go, or TypeScript).
- Familiarity with APIs, basic cloud concepts, and modern development practices.
- Interest in agentic AI systems, autonomy, and AI-assisted development workflows.
- Willingness to learn, take feedback, and grow technical ownership over time.
- Comfort working in collaborative, cross-functional teams.
- A strong customer mindset and curiosity about real-world problem solving.