AI Enabled Modernization - Agentic Software Engineer - Vice President (Seattle, WA)

Goldman Sachs; Seattle (WA); On-site; USD 150,000 - 250,000; Full time

Job summary

Goldman Sachs is seeking entrepreneurial Software Engineers to join a newly formed AI Agentic Systems team. You will help build autonomous, agentic workflows that transform application modernization across a vast technology estate.

As a founding member, you will move beyond static automation to dynamic, goal-oriented agentic systems spanning the firm’s diverse business units, shaping the future of enterprise software at scale.

Qualifications

• Proficient in Python, Go, Java or similar languages.
• Strong understanding of distributed systems and cloud-native architecture.
• Experience deploying and operating LLM-based agents in production.
• Familiarity with agentic patterns and AI evaluation benchmarks.

Responsibilities

• Agentic Orchestration: design and deploy multi-agent systems across distributed cloud environments.
• Learning and Feedback: build human-in-the-loop evaluation and observability frameworks.
• Tool Integration: integrate APIs, CI/CD, data platforms and operational systems.
• Cross-Functional Collaboration: partner with business units to identify high-impact agent use cases.

Skills

Python

Go

Java

Distributed systems

Cloud-native

LLM agents

Tools

LangGraph

AutoGPT

Job description

What We Do

At Goldman Sachs, our Engineers don’t just make things – we make things possible. Change the world by connecting people and capital with ideas. Solve the most challenging and pressing engineering problems for our clients. Join our engineering teams that build massively scalable software and systems, architect low latency infrastructure solutions, proactively guard against cyber threats, and leverage machine learning alongside financial engineering to continuously turn data into action. Create new businesses, transform finance, and explore a world of opportunity at the speed of markets. Goldman Sachs Engineers are innovators and problem-solvers, building solutions in Artificial Intelligence, risk management, big data, mobile and more.

Job Description

What We Do

At Goldman Sachs, our Engineers don’t just make things – we make things possible. Change the world by connecting people and capital with ideas. Solve the most challenging and pressing engineering problems for our clients. Join our engineering teams that build massively scalable software and systems, architect low latency infrastructure solutions, proactively guard against cyber threats, and leverage machine learning alongside financial engineering to continuously turn data into action. Create new businesses, transform finance, and explore a world of opportunity at the speed of markets. Goldman Sachs Engineers are innovators and problem-solvers, building solutions in Artificial Intelligence, risk management, big data, mobile and more.

Your Impact

We are seeking entrepreneurial Agentic Software Engineers to join a newly formed AI Agentic Systems team. This team is tasked with solving firmwide, large-scale application and infrastructure challenges by building and deploying swarms of agents. You will build systems that understand, plan, transform, and validate application modernization workflows across one of the largest and most complex technology estates in the industry.

As a founding member of this team, you will help incubate a new paradigm of software engineering—moving beyond static automation to dynamic, goal-oriented agentic systems that operate across all the firm’s business units.

Key Responsibilities

• Agentic Orchestration: Design and deploy multi-agent systems (swarms) capable of autonomous planning, reasoning, and execution across distributed cloud environments.
• Learning and Feedback: Build human-in-the-loop systems, evaluation frameworks, and observability mechanisms that enable continuous agent improvement.
• Tool Integration: Design and build integrations with APIs, developer tooling, CI/CD pipelines, data platforms, or operational systems.
• Cross-Functional Collaboration: Partner with diverse business units to identify high-impact use cases for agents, translating ambiguous business needs into technical agentic workflows.

Basic Qualifications

• Software Engineering Excellence: Strong proficiency in Python, Go, Java, Javascript or similar languages with a deep understanding of distributed systems and cloud-native architecture (AWS, Azure, or internal private clouds).
• Agentic Experience: Direct experience deploying and operating LLM-based agents in production environments. Familiarity with frameworks such as LangGraph, AutoGPT, or custom-built orchestration layers.
• AI Evals: Experience designing benchmarks, evaluations, and quality metrics for AI systems.
• Problem-Solving Domains: Proven track record of applying agentic patterns to at least two of the following:
• Data Analysis: Autonomous synthesis of large-scale datasets.
• Observability: Self-healing infrastructure and automated root-cause analysis.
• Optimization: Dynamic resource allocation and cost management.
• Planning: Multi-step task decomposition and execution in non-deterministic environments.
• Entrepreneurial Mindset: Ability to thrive in a 0-to-1 environment, comfortable with ambiguity, and driven to build systems that have never existed before.

Preferred Qualifications

• Demonstrated interest in emerging agentic technologies such as Multi-Agent Reinforcement Learning (MARL), and swarm intelligence, with a willingness to experiment, learn, and apply new approaches where they create practical business value.
• Familiarity with Model Context Protocol (MCP), A2A and other emerging standards for agent-to-tool communication.
• Strong communication skills to bridge the gap between technical agentic logic and human-centric business processes.

About Goldman Sachs

At Goldman Sachs, we commit our people, capital and ideas to help our clients, shareholders and the communities we serve to grow. Founded in 1869, we are a leading global investment banking, securities and investment management firm. Headquartered in New York, we maintain offices around the world.

We believe who you are makes you better at what you do. We're committed to fostering and advancing diversity and inclusion in our own workplace and beyond by ensuring every individual within our firm has several opportunities to grow professionally and personally, from our training and development opportunities and firmwide networks to benefits, wellness and personal finance offerings and mindfulness programs. Learn more about our culture, benefits, and people at GS.com/careers .

We’re committed to finding reasonable accommodation for candidates with special needs or disabilities during our recruiting process. Learn more: https://www.goldmansachs.com/careers/footer/disability-statement.html

Salary Range

The expected base salary for this Seattle, WA, United States-based position is $150000-$250000. In addition, you may be eligible for a discretionary bonus if you are an active employee as of fiscal year-end.

Benefits

Goldman Sachs is committed to providing our people with valuable and competitive benefits and wellness offerings, as it is a core part of providing a strong overall employee experience. A summary of these offerings, which are generally available to active, non-temporary, full-time and part-time US employees who work at least 20 hours per week, can be found here .