AI Engineer (Financial Services - Software)

Oliver James Associates Limited; Hong Kong; On-site; HKD 600,000 - 1,000,000; Full time

Job summary

Oliver James Associates Limited is seeking an AI Engineer (Financial Services - Software) in Hong Kong to build and maintain AI-driven applications, including chatbots, leveraging LLMs and AI frameworks. You will deploy, monitor, and iterate on production systems while supporting internal and customer-facing solutions.

The role requires 7+ years in IT/ software engineering, strong Python with FastAPI/Flask, and solid AWS and container experience.

Qualifications

• 7+ years IT/ software engineering experience.
• Experience building or supporting chatbot applications.
• Experience with monitoring, patching, dependency upgrades, and writing runbooks.
• Strong knowledge of RAG, embeddings, vector search, LLMs, evaluation and AI guardrails.
• Strong Python skills with FastAPI or Flask.
• Experience developing REST APIs and system integrations.
• Solid AWS experience, including deploying apps to production.
• Hands-on Docker, Kubernetes, EKS/ECS, IAM, CloudWatch, S3, RDS, and CI/CD pipelines.
• Ability to troubleshoot production issues across apps, APIs, Kubernetes, networks, and integrations.
• Effective communication in Cantonese and English.
• Insurance/FSI experience preferred.
• Experience with AWS Bedrock or other LLM platforms preferred.
• Candidates with lesser experience may be considered for a more junior position.

Responsibilities

• Build and improve AI applications from a technical standpoint.
• Handle deployment, maintenance, troubleshooting, and improvements of AI applications.
• Support chatbot and AI-driven solutions for customers and internal agents.
• Apply LLM technologies and AI frameworks to develop and enhance applications.
• Deploy, maintain, troubleshoot, and enhance AI applications.
• Support daily operations and address production issues.
• Contribute to development of new AI features and functionalities.
• Progressively take ownership of applications development.

Skills

AI/ML engineering

Python

LLM APIs

Prompt engineering

REST APIs

Troubleshooting

Tools

Docker

Kubernetes

AWS

CI/CD pipelines

CloudWatch/S3/RDS

Job description

AI Engineer (Financial Services - Software)

Build and improve AI applications from a technical standpoint

Handle deployment, ongoing maintenance, troubleshooting, and improvements of AI applications

Support chatbot and AI-driven solutions for customers and internal agents

Apply LLM technologies and AI frameworks to develop and enhance applications

Deploy, maintain, troubleshoot, and enhance AI applications

Support daily operations and address production issues

Contribute to the development of new AI features and functionalities

Progressively take ownership of applications development

Key Requirements

• 7+ years of IT industry experience/software engineering background
• Experience building or supporting chatbot applications
• Experience with application monitoring, patching, dependency upgrades, and writing technical documentation/runbooks
• Strong knowledge of RAG, prompt engineering, embeddings, vector search, LLM APIs, evaluation, and AI guardrails
• Strong Python skills with experience using FastAPI or Flask
• Experience developing REST APIs and integrating systems
• Solid AWS experience, including deploying applications from source code to production
• Hands-on knowledge of Docker, Kubernetes, Amazon EKS/ECS, ECR, IAM, CloudWatch, S3, RDS, and CI/CD pipelines
• Ability to troubleshoot application, API, Kubernetes, network, and integration issues in production
• Effective communication in Cantonese and English
• Insurance or Financial Services Industry (FSI) experience is preferred
• Experience with AWS Bedrock or other LLM platforms is preferred
• Candidates with lesser experience may be considered for a more junior position