Senior Gen AI Platform Engineer - Artificial Intelligence

Avature; London; On-site; GBP 70,000 - 110,000; Full time

Job summary

A leading company in financial technology is seeking a Senior GenAI Platform Engineer in London. The role involves architecting and building GenAI systems, collaborating with application teams, and enhancing the development lifecycle of ML systems. Candidates should have strong programming skills and experience with GenAI technologies.

Qualifications

• Proven experience with object-oriented programming languages like Python or Go.
• Experience with GenAI technologies such as MCP, A2A, Langgraph.
• Understanding of Computer Science fundamentals like data structures and algorithms.

Responsibilities

• Architect, build, and diagnose multi-tenant GenAI platform systems.
• Collaborate with GenAI application teams to design workflows for model training.
• Troubleshoot and debug user issues.

Skills

Object-oriented programming

Problem-solving

Collaboration

Education

Degree in Computer Science, Engineering, Mathematics

Tools

Python

Go

GenAI technologies

Job description

Location

London

Business Area

Engineering and CTO

Ref #

10043928

Description & Requirements

Bloomberg’s Engineering AI department has 350+ AI practitioners building highly sought after products and features that often require novel innovations. We are investing in AI to build better search, discovery, and workflow solutions using technologies such as transformers, gradient boosted decision trees, large language models, and dense vector databases. We are expanding our group and seeking highly skilled individuals who will be responsible for contributing to the team (or teams) of Artificial Intelligence (AI) and Software Engineers that are bringing innovative solutions to AI-driven customer-facing products.

At Bloomberg, we believe in fostering a transparent and efficient financial marketplace. Our business is built on technology that makes news, research, financial data, and analytics on over 35 million financial instruments searchable, discoverable, and actionable across the global capital markets.

Bloomberg has been building Artificial Intelligence applications that offer solutions to these problems with high accuracy and low latency since 2009. We build AI systems to help process and organize the ever-increasing volume of structured and unstructured information needed to make informed decisions. Our use of AI uncovers signals, helps us produce analytics about financial instruments in all asset classes, and delivers clarity when our clients need it most.

We are looking for Senior GenAI Platform Engineers with strong expertise and passion for building platforms, especially for GenAI systems.

As a Senior GenAI Platform Engineer, you will have the opportunity to create a more cohesive, integrated, and managed GenAI development life cycle to enable the building and maintenance of our ML systems. Our teams make extensive use of open source technologies such as Kubernetes, KServe, MCP, Envoy AI Gateway, Buildpacks and other cloud-native and GenAI technologies. From technical governance to upstream collaboration, we are committed to enhancing the impact and sustainability of open source.

Join the AI Group as a Senior GenAI Platform Engineer and you will have the opportunity to:

• Architect, build, and diagnose multi-tenant GenAI platform systems
• Work closely with GenAI application teams to design seamless workflows for continuous model training, inference, and monitoring
• Interface with both GenAI experts to understand workflows, pinpoint and resolve inefficiencies, and inform the next set of features for the platforms
• Collaborate with open-source communities and GenAI application teams to build a cohesive development experience
• Troubleshoot and debug user issues
• Provide operational and user-facing documentation

We are looking for a Senior GenAI Platform Engineer with:

• Proven years of experience working with an object-oriented programming language (Python, Go, etc.)
• Experience with GenAI technologies like MCP, A2A, Langgraph, LlamaIndex, Pydantic AI, OpenAI APIs and SDKs
• A Degree in Computer Science, Engineering, Mathematics, similar field of study or equivalent work experience
• An understanding of Computer Science fundamentals such as data structures and algorithms
• An honest approach to problem-solving, and ability to collaborate with peers, stakeholders and management