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Artificial Intelligence Engineer

Post Id Number: 408093 Quick Apply
Employment Type: Permanent
Location: New York
Contact: Tmcdonough@connectionsny.com
Salary Range: $160,000 - $220,000
Skills: agentic, AI, Artificial Intelligence, LLM, Machine Learning, Python, Pytorch, RAG
Description:
Job Description
As a AI / ML Engineer play an important role in advancing our primary AI platform.
Expectations:
  • Lead projects focused on integrating and optimizing large language models (LLMs), embedding models, and semantic retrieval systems within our products.
  • Design, build, and deploy sophisticated multimodal retrieval and agentic systems that deliver powerful insights from unstructured and structured financial data sources.
  • Drive the next generation of agentic capabilities within our platform, with a focus on composability, advanced function calling, and modular AI orchestration techniques.
  • Continuously refine our retrieval methodologies and AI outputs by actively leveraging customer feedback, ensuring high accuracy and relevance.
  • Explore innovative approaches and rapidly prototype new AI-driven features, directly impacting our client’s workflows.
  • Collaborate closely with engineering, product, and customer-facing teams, communicating ideas clearly and effectively to achieve business outcomes.
Desired Qualifications
  • 2+ years of experience deploying machine learning models in production.
  • Demonstrated experience integrating closed-source LLM APIs and fine-tuning open-source models
  • Proven expertise with embedding models and semantic retrieval systems such as Pinecone, Weaviate, FAISS, Chroma, PGVector, etc.
  • Experience developing multimodal retrieval solutions that integrate diverse data types, including textual, numerical, and structured data.
  • Strong Python proficiency, including practical knowledge of frameworks like Hugging Face, PyTorch, TensorFlow, or LangChain.
  • Passion for staying current with cutting-edge AI research, tools, and industry trends.
  • Ability to thrive in ambiguous environments, independently scoping and executing projects end-to-end.
  • Excellent communication skills, fostering effective collaboration across technical and business teams.
Additional Qualifications
  • Prior experience building or optimizing AI agentic systems leveraging function-calling, orchestration frameworks, and modular architectures.
  • Deep familiarity with financial data retrieval challenges and techniques
  • Demonstrated experience in performance tuning, scalability improvements, and reliability engineering for AI-driven retrieval systems.
  • Entrepreneurial mindset or previous experience working in a high-growth startup environment.
  • Knowledge of or interest in free-form generative AI capabilities and their application within complex business scenarios.