Lead AI Engineer (AI Foundations)

Discover Financial
Cambridge, San Jose, New York
Workplace: OnsiteFull timeUSD 197,300 - 225,100 annuallyFunction: Data Science & Machine LearningExperience: 4+ yearsEducation: bachelorsSkills: ["Problem-solving","Communication","Adaptability"]

Build and ship responsible, high-performance AI systems for banking at scale within the Intelligent Foundations and Experiences (IFX) team. Partner cross-functionally to design, develop, test, deploy, and support AI software components spanning foundation model training, LLM inference, similarity search, guardrails, evaluation, experimentation, governance, and observability. Leverage AWS and open-source AI tools (e.g., Hugging Face, VectorDBs, Nemo Guardrails, PyTorch) and invent LLM optimization techniques to improve cost, latency, and throughput.

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Lead AI Engineer (AI Foundations)

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Job Summary

Build and ship responsible, high-performance AI systems for banking at scale within the Intelligent Foundations and Experiences (IFX) team. Partner cross-functionally to design, develop, test, deploy, and support AI software components spanning foundation model training, LLM inference, similarity search, guardrails, evaluation, experimentation, governance, and observability. Leverage AWS and open-source AI tools (e.g., Hugging Face, VectorDBs, Nemo Guardrails, PyTorch) and invent LLM optimization techniques to improve cost, latency, and throughput.
Location: Cambridge, San Jose, New York
Workplace: Onsite
Employment Type: Full time
Job Function: Data Science & Machine Learning

Key Responsibilities

  • •Partner with cross-functional teams to deliver AI-powered products for associates and customers.
  • •Design, develop, test, deploy, and support AI software components including foundation model training, LLM inference, similarity search, guardrails, and evaluation.
  • •Leverage 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 197,300 - 225,100 annually
Perks:Health Insurance

Key Requirements

  • •Bachelor's degree in Computer Science, AI, Electrical Engineering, Computer Engineering, or related fields plus at least 4 years developing AI/ML algorithms or technologies, or a Master's degree plus at least 2 years.
  • •At least 4 years of experience programming with Python, Go, Scala, or Java.
  • •Experience deploying scalable and responsible AI solutions on cloud platforms (e.g., AWS, Google Cloud, Azure) (preferred).
  • •Experience developing AI and ML algorithms or technologies (e.g., LLM inference, similarity search/vector databases, guardrails, memory) using Python, C++, C#, Java, or Golang (preferred).
  • •Experience optimizing training and inference software to improve hardware utilization, latency, throughput, and cost (preferred).
Experience:4+ yearsBankingAI and ML
Education:Bachelor's
Skills:Problem-solvingCommunicationAdaptability
Tech Stack:AWS UltraclustersHuggingfaceVectorDBsNemo GuardrailsPyTorchPythonGoScalaJavaC++C#GolangLLM inferenceSimilarity searchGuardrailsModel evaluationExperimentationObservabilityGovernance

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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