Senior Lead AI Engineer (SDK's: Gen AI Evaluation and MCP)

Discover Financial
Cambridge, New York, San Francisco, San Jose
Workplace: OnsiteFull timeUSD 229,900 - 262,400 annuallyFunction: Data Science & Machine LearningExperience: 4+ yearsEducation: bachelorsSkills: ["Communication","Presentation","Problem-solving","Adaptability","Leadership"]

Build and deliver AI-powered products with the Intelligent Foundations and Experiences team, designing, developing, testing, deploying, and supporting AI software components for foundation model training, LLM inference, similarity search, guardrails, evaluation, governance, and observability. Work with a cross-functional group to leverage open source and SaaS AI technologies (AWS Ultraclusters, Hugging Face, VectorDBs, Nemo Guardrails, PyTorch) and introduce state-of-the-art LLM optimization techniques to improve scalability, cost, latency, and throughput.

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Senior Lead AI Engineer (SDK's: Gen AI Evaluation and MCP)

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Job Summary

Build and deliver AI-powered products with the Intelligent Foundations and Experiences team, designing, developing, testing, deploying, and supporting AI software components for foundation model training, LLM inference, similarity search, guardrails, evaluation, governance, and observability. Work with a cross-functional group to leverage open source and SaaS AI technologies (AWS Ultraclusters, Hugging Face, VectorDBs, Nemo Guardrails, PyTorch) and introduce state-of-the-art LLM optimization techniques to improve scalability, cost, latency, and throughput.
Location: Cambridge, New York, San Francisco, San Jose
Workplace: Onsite
Employment Type: Full time
Job Function: Data Science & Machine Learning
Seniority: Sr. Manager level

Key Responsibilities

  • •Partner with cross-functional teams to deliver AI-powered products that change how associates work and how customers interact with the company.
  • •Design, develop, test, deploy, and support AI software components across training, LLM inference, similarity search, guardrails, evaluation, experimentation, governance, and observability.
  • •Leverage a stack of open source and SaaS AI technologies such as AWS Ultraclusters, Hugging Face, VectorDBs, Nemo Guardrails, and PyTorch.
  • •Invent and introduce state-of-the-art LLM optimization techniques to improve scalability, cost, latency, and throughput in production systems.
  • •Contribute to the technical vision and long-term roadmap for foundational AI systems.

Pay and Benefits

Salary: USD 229,900 - 262,400 annually

Key Requirements

  • •Bachelor's degree in Computer Science, AI, Electrical Engineering, Computer Engineering, or related fields plus 6+ years developing AI/ML algorithms or technologies, or a Master's degree plus 4+ years.
  • •6+ years of programming experience with Python, Go, Scala, or Java.
  • •7+ years deploying scalable, responsible AI solutions on cloud platforms such as AWS, Google Cloud, Azure, or equivalent private cloud.
  • •Experience designing, developing, integrating, delivering, and supporting complex AI systems.
  • •Experience developing and applying state-of-the-art optimization techniques for training and inference to improve hardware utilization, latency, throughput, and cost.
Experience:4+ yearsMachine learningAI systemsCloud platformsLLMAI engineering
Education:Bachelor's
Skills:CommunicationPresentationProblem-solvingAdaptabilityLeadership
Tech Stack:PythonGoScalaJavaC++C#GolangAWSAWS UltraclustersHuggingfaceVectorDBsNemo GuardrailsPyTorchLLM inferenceSimilarity searchGuardrailsExperimentationGovernanceObservability

Eligibility

Work Authorization:Sponsorship available.

Company Brief

Discover Financial
Provides consumer banking products, credit cards, personal loans, and payment services through the Discover brand. It operates a major U.S. financial network and serves individuals and merchants with lending and digital payment solutions.
Industry: Retail Banking
Company Size: Enterprise (1,001+ employees)
Revenue: USD 10M to 25M
Growth: Public Company
Valuation: Public Company (Market Cap in USD)
Funding: IPO / Publicly Listed
Headquarters: Riverwoods, United States
Founded: 1985
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