AI Engineer 2

Discover Financial
San Jose, Virginia, Cambridge, New York
Workplace: OnsiteFull timeUSD 148,000 - 168,900 annuallyFunction: Data Science & Machine LearningExperience: 2+ yearsEducation: bachelorsSkills: ["Cross-functional collaboration","Technical ownership","Adaptability","Communication","Attention to quality"]

Build and deploy reliable AI systems for banking experiences, working with engineers, research scientists, technical program managers, and product managers. You’ll design and support AI software components across foundation model training and LLM inference, including agents, similarity search, guardrails, evaluation, experimentation, governance, and observability. Leverage AWS-based and open-source AI tooling, optimize training/inference for cost/latency/throughput, and improve readiness through deployment pipelines, testing environments, and performance telemetry.

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AI Engineer 2

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Job Summary

Build and deploy reliable AI systems for banking experiences, working with engineers, research scientists, technical program managers, and product managers. You’ll design and support AI software components across foundation model training and LLM inference, including agents, similarity search, guardrails, evaluation, experimentation, governance, and observability. Leverage AWS-based and open-source AI tooling, optimize training/inference for cost/latency/throughput, and improve readiness through deployment pipelines, testing environments, and performance telemetry.
Location: San Jose, Virginia, Cambridge, New York
Workplace: Onsite
Employment Type: Full time
Job Function: Data Science & Machine Learning
Seniority: Mid level

Key Responsibilities

  • •Partner with cross-functional teams to deliver AI-powered products that improve associate and customer experiences
  • •Design, develop, test, deploy, and support AI software components for foundation model training, LLM inference, agents, similarity search, guardrails, and evaluation
  • •Apply state-of-the-art foundation model optimization techniques to improve scalability, cost, latency, and throughput in production AI systems
  • •Collaborate on safe prompt development, evaluation datasets, and automated regression tests for foundation model products
  • •Support operational readiness by building deployment pipelines, testing environments, and telemetry for model performance

Pay and Benefits

Salary: USD 148,000 - 168,900 annually

Key Requirements

  • •Bachelor’s degree in Computer Science, AI, Electrical Engineering, Computer Engineering, or related fields plus at least 2 years developing AI and ML algorithms/technologies, or a Master’s degree in a related field
  • •At least 2 years programming with Python, Go, Scala, CUDA, or Java
  • •Experience contributing to AI system components with tradeoff decisions around cost, latency, throughput, and accuracy
  • •2+ years deploying scalable and responsible AI solutions on cloud platforms such as AWS, Google Cloud, Azure or equivalent private cloud
  • •Knowledge of retrieval-augmented generation (RAG) and embedding-based search systems for grounding model outputs in factual context
Experience:2+ yearsMachine learningAICloudLLMs
Education:Bachelor's in Computer Science, AI, Electrical Engineering, Computer Engineering, or related fields
Skills:Cross-functional collaborationTechnical ownershipAdaptabilityCommunicationAttention to quality
Tech Stack:PythonGoScalaCUDAJavaC++C#GolangAWSGoogle CloudAzureHuggingfaceVectorDBsPyTorchAWS UltraclustersLLM inferenceRAGEmbeddingsRetrieval-augmented generationGuardrails

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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