AVP, FC Detection and DE

HSBC Holdings plc; Kraków; On-site; PLN 176,000 - 257,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Private medical care

Life insurance

Multisport card

One‑time reimbursement of home office

Employee assistance program

Corporate parties & events

CSR initiatives

Free parking

Pension and other benefits

Job summary

HSBC Holdings plc in Kraków seeks an AVP, FC Detection and DE Forward Deployment Engineer to support safe, production-ready AI capabilities with business users and Technology teams.

You will shape priority use cases, build practical solutions, and ensure delivery with established engineering practices, user adoption, documentation and risk controls.

Qualifications

• Hands-on Python engineering experience with ML frameworks.
• Knowledge of LLMs, prompt engineering and retrieval augmented generation.
• Experience delivering software or AI across discovery to production.
• Ability to apply secure engineering practices and data pipelines.
• Interest in financial crime investigations and collaboration with stakeholders.

Responsibilities

• Support AI use cases from discovery to controlled production.
• Translate user needs into practical technical solutions with quality and safety metrics.
• Build reusable templates, libraries and reference implementations.
• Collaborate with Product Owners, investigators, and Technology to test workflows.
• Deliver work under guidance, documenting assumptions and risks.
• Apply standards for monitoring, incident response, and controlled change.
• Identify and elevate operational and financial crime risks and obtain approvals.

Skills

Hands-on Python engineering

LLMs knowledge

Software/AI delivery experience

Secure engineering practices

Stakeholder collaboration

Tools

PyTorch

Job description

Some careers shine brighter than others.
If you’re looking for a career that will help you stand out, join HSBC, and fulfil your potential. Whether you want a career that could take you to the top, or simply take you in an exciting new direction, HSBC offers opportunities, support and rewards that will take you further.

Your career opportunity

Financial Crime Investigations focuses on the financial crime threats facing the firm now and in the future. It combines intelligence, analytics, technology, investigation, information sharing and public-private partnerships to protect HSBC, its customers and the communities in which it operates from the harms associated with financial crime.
Investigative Tooling provides global products for Financial Crime Investigations, including HSBC Investigations Assistant, its flagship agentic AI platform. The team is developing a new capability that will enable effective quality assurance reviews of Financial Crime Investigation cases through agentic AI.
As AVP, FC Detection and DE Forward Deployment Engineer you’ll support the delivery of safe, production-ready AI capabilities by working with business users, the Senior Forward Deployment Engineer and Technology teams. You’ll help identify and shape priority use cases, build and test practical solutions and move approved capabilities into controlled production. Working under the direction of the Senior Forward Deployment Engineer you’ll follow established engineering, evaluation and control practices, collaborate with Technology and relevant control functions, support user adoption and contribute reusable components and clear delivery documentation.

What you’ll do

• Support assigned AI use cases from discovery and prototyping through testing and controlled production release
• Translate user needs into practical technical solutions and provide evidence against agreed quality, risk, safety and performance measures
• Build reusable templates, libraries, evaluation tools and reference implementations in line with established standards
• Collaborate with Product Owners, investigators, subject-matter experts, Technology and control teams to test workflows, support adoption and prepare user guidance
• Deliver work under the Senior Forward Deployment Engineer’s direction, documenting assumptions, decisions, dependencies, risks and lessons learned
• Apply engineering, evaluation and control standards, supporting monitoring, incident response, rollback, change and decommissioning arrangements
• Identify and elevate operational, conduct, data, model, cybersecurity and financial crime risks, supporting required approvals and remediation

What you need to have to succeed in this role

• Hands‑on Python engineering experience with exposure to PyTorch or an equivalent machine‑learning framework through professional, academic or substantial personal projects
• Working knowledge of LLMs, prompt engineering, Retrieval‑Augmented Generation, API integration, evaluation, cloud technologies, automated testing, deployment and observability
• Experience contributing to software or AI delivery across stages such as discovery, prototyping, testing, release or operational support
• Ability to apply secure engineering practices, work with enterprise integrations and data pipelines and support monitoring, incident management, resilience and controlled change
• Interest in financial crime investigations, with the ability to learn relevant workflows, evidence standards and case‑management practices and collaborate effectively with business and technical stakeholders

What we offer

The pay range for this role is 15775 PLN - 23000 PLN (monthly, gross).

Variable pay is discretionary, but influenced by Group performance, business/function performance and individual performance.

We offer a comprehensive and competitive package of benefits covering healthcare, family friendly leaves, pension and life assurance, as well as many other benefits to support your wellbeing.

• Additional bonuses for recognition awards
• Multisport card
• Private medical care
• Life insurance
• One‑time reimbursement of home office set‑up (up to 800 PLN).
• Employee assistance program
• Additional contributions to PPK scheme
• Corporate parties & events
• CSR initiatives
• Nursery discounts
• Financial support with trainings and education
• Social fund
• Free parking

If your CV meets our criteria, you should expect the following steps in the recruitment process:

• Online behavioural test (for external candidates only)
• Telephone screen (for external candidates only)
• Interview with the hiring manager
  

Being open to different points of view is important for our business and the communities we serve. At HSBC, we’re dedicated to creating diverse and inclusive workplaces. We are committed to removing barriers and ensuring careers at HSBC are inclusive and accessible for everyone to be at their best.
If you have a need that requires accommodations or changes during the recruitment process, please let us know.