Senior AI Platform Engineer

About the role

SS&C Advent is a leading financial services and healthcare technology company headquartered in Windsor, Connecticut, with 27,000+ employees globally. The company provides expertise, scale, and technology to over 20,000 financial services and healthcare organizations worldwide.

Responsibilities

• Design and build a scalable Agentic AI framework on top of our data platform.
• Implement MCP- and A2A-based architectures for agent collaboration and orchestration.
• Integrate AI services with data pipelines (Airflow, Spark, Trino, StarRocks, DBT).
• Build APIs, SDKs, and tooling to enable other teams to use the framework.
• Work with platform and application teams to ensure secure, reliable, and multi-tenant deployment of AI agents.
• Evaluate new agentic AI, LLM, and orchestration technologies and recommend adoption.
• Mentor other engineers and contribute to AI engineering best practices.

Requirements

• Strong programming skills in Python with 5+ years of experience.
• Proven experience with data engineering or distributed systems (Spark, Hive, Trino, StarRocks, DBT, Airflow, Kubernetes).
• Deep understanding of LLM-based systems and agent frameworks (LangChain, LlamaIndex, DSPy, OpenAI MCP, A2A).
• Hands-on experience with API design & integration (REST, GraphQL, gRPC).
• Knowledge of cloud infrastructure & container orchestration (Kubernetes, Docker).
• Strong understanding of IAM, security, and multi-tenancy in enterprise systems.
• Track record of building production-grade AI/data platforms.

Qualifications

• Core Skills (Must-Have): See above.
• Desired Skills (Nice-to-Have): See above.

Skills

• Experience in Information Security.
• Familiarity with vector databases (pgvector, Pinecone, Weaviate, Milvus, Vespa).
• Familiarity with event-driven architectures (Kafka, Pulsar).
• Understanding of retrieval-augmented generation (RAG) patterns.
• Background in authorization/identity systems (ReBAC, RBAC, Zanzibar-style).
• Familiarity with observability (OpenTelemetry, DataHub, MLflow, Prometheus).
• Experience in enterprise AI governance (audit, lineage, compliance).
• Contributions to open-source AI frameworks (LangChain, OpenAI MCP, Hugging Face, etc.).

Benefits

Our benefits include:

• Medical, dental, and vision coverage.
• A 401(k) plan with company match.
• Paid time off, holidays, and parental leave.
• Professional development reimbursement opportunity.
• Discounts on fitness clubs, travel, and more!

Pay

The expected base salary for the position is between $140,000 to $180,000 USD.

Schedule

This role offers a hybrid work model and a business casual dress code, including jeans.