AI Engineer 5

Discover Financial
San Jose, Virginia, Cambridge, New York
Full timeUSD 250,800 - 286,200 annuallyFunction: Data Science & Machine LearningExperience: 6+ yearsSkills: ["Communication","Presentation","Mentorship","Problem-solving","Collaboration","Technical rigor"]

Build responsible, high-performance AI systems for banking—designing and deploying AI software components for foundation model training and LLM inference. Work with the IFX team to create multi-model orchestration pipelines, similarity search, guardrails, evaluation, experimentation, governance, and observability. Optimize foundation model performance (cost, latency, throughput) using cloud and open-source AI technologies, and lead cost-performance governance and technical design reviews while mentoring senior engineers.

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AI Engineer 5

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Job Summary

Build responsible, high-performance AI systems for banking—designing and deploying AI software components for foundation model training and LLM inference. Work with the IFX team to create multi-model orchestration pipelines, similarity search, guardrails, evaluation, experimentation, governance, and observability. Optimize foundation model performance (cost, latency, throughput) using cloud and open-source AI technologies, and lead cost-performance governance and technical design reviews while mentoring senior engineers.
Location: San Jose, Virginia, Cambridge, New York
Employment Type: Full time
Job Function: Data Science & Machine Learning
Seniority: Mid level

Key Responsibilities

  • •Partner with cross-functional engineers, research scientists, technical program managers, and product managers to deliver AI-powered products.
  • •Design, develop, test, deploy, and support AI software components including foundation model training, LLM inference, agents/multi-agent workflows, similarity search, guardrails, evaluation, experimentation, governance, and observability.
  • •Leverage Open Source and SaaS AI technologies (e.g., AWS Ultraclusters, Huggingface, VectorDBs, PyTorch) and introduce foundation model optimization techniques to improve scalability, cost, latency, and throughput.
  • •Design and optimize multi-model orchestration pipelines integrating LLMs, vector search, and domain-specific models into unified systems.
  • •Establish and lead cost-performance governance reviews and mentor Principal/Manager-level AI engineers to elevate technical maturity.

Pay and Benefits

Salary: USD 250,800 - 286,200 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 plus 4+ years.
  • •6+ years programming with Python, Go, Scala, CUDA, or Java.
  • •Experience deploying scalable and responsible AI solutions on cloud platforms (e.g., AWS, Google Cloud, Azure).
  • •Experience designing, developing, delivering, and supporting complex AI systems (e.g., LLM inference, similarity search, vector databases, guardrails, memory).
  • •Experience optimizing training and inference software for hardware utilization, latency, throughput, and cost.
Experience:6+ yearsAIMachine learningLLMFoundation modelsCloudResponsible AI
Education:
Skills:CommunicationPresentationMentorshipProblem-solvingCollaborationTechnical rigor
Tech Stack:AWS UltraclustersHuggingfaceVectorDBsPyTorchPythonGoScalaCUDAJavaC++C#GolangGoogle CloudAzureLLM inferenceSimilarity searchGuardrailsObservabilityExperimentationGovernance

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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