AI Engineer, Agentic Applications

Arrowstreet Capital, Limited Partnership; Boston (MA); On-site; USD 200,000 - 325,000; Full time

Job summary

Arrowstreet Capital, a Boston-based investment firm, seeks an AI Engineer focused on agentic applications to design and implement foundational patterns for safe, auditable adoption of agentic AI in business systems.

You will work with AWS Bedrock AgentCore, Strands, MCP gateways/servers, and related services to build production-grade, secure workflows with observability and compliance at the core.

Qualifications

• 5+ years of software engineering, application engineering, or cloud engineering experience.

Responsibilities

• Design, build, and productionize reusable agentic workflow patterns for business applications.
• Implement application-side agent orchestration using AWS Bedrock AgentCore and related frameworks.
• Define standards for agent-to-tool communication, authorization, and service discovery.
• Build agentic workflows including planning, tool execution, memory, and human approval patterns.
• Ensure agentic workflows are observable, secure, and compliant in production environments.

Skills

AWS Bedrock

AgentCore

Strands

Cloud engineering

Security engineering

Observability

IAM / security services

Tools

AWS Bedrock AgentCore

Strands

MCP gateways

MCP servers

CloudWatch

Lambda / ECS/EKS

Job description

Job Overview

As an AI Engineer focused on agentic applications, you will design and implement the foundational application-side patterns that allow business applications to safely adopt agentic AI capabilities. You will work hands-on with AWS Bedrock AgentCore, MCP gateways and MCP servers, related agent frameworks such as Strands, and supporting services for observability, identity, memory, knowledge bases, registries, and evaluation harnesses. This is a financial services environment where data protection, auditability, and regulatory compliance are foundational requirements. You will help ensure agentic workflows are secure by design, observable in production, reliable under operational constraints, and easy for application engineering teams to adopt. You will report into the AI Engineering function and partner closely with AI Platform Engineering, Security Engineering, application teams, and core infrastructure groups.

Responsibilities

• Agentic Application Patterns Design, build, and productionize reusable agentic workflow patterns for business applications
• Implement application-side agent orchestration using AWS Bedrock AgentCore and related frameworks such as Strands
• Design and integrate MCP gateways, MCP servers, and tool-access frameworks for enterprise systems
• Define standards for agent-to-tool communication, authorization, and service discovery
• Build agentic workflows that include planning, tool execution, retrieval, memory, and human approval patterns
• AWS Bedrock AgentCore and Related Frameworks Build production-grade solutions using AWS Bedrock AgentCore
• Apply related agent frameworks such as Strands to accelerate development and standardize patterns
• Design agent workflows that are reusable, reliable, maintainable, and aligned with enterprise security standards
• Evaluate tradeoffs between native AWS capabilities, open-source frameworks, and internal platform services
• Observability, Evaluation, and Operational Readiness Define observability standards for agentic workflows, including traces, tool calls, model interactions, decisions, failures, and latency
• Build or integrate evaluation harnesses to test agent behavior, workflow quality, reliability, and regression risk
• Establish production readiness patterns for discovery/inventory of the agents, monitoring, alerting, troubleshooting, and operational support
• Ensure agentic workflows provide sufficient auditability for regulated environments
• Contribute to dashboards and metrics that help measure adoption, quality, reliability, and cost
• Identity, Authorization, and Guardrails Work with Security Engineering and platform teams to implement secure identity and authorization patterns for agents
• Define how agents authenticate, access tools, and interact with business systems
• Implement least-privilege patterns for agent permissions and tool execution
• Support human approval patterns for sensitive or high-impact actions
• Ensure agents operate within approved enterprise boundaries and follow firm security standards
• Memory, Knowledge Bases, and Retrieval Design patterns for agent memory, contextual retrieval, and knowledge base integration
• Implement workflows that use structured and unstructured enterprise knowledge safely and effectively
• Partner with data and application teams to define appropriate grounding sources
• Establish reusable retrieval and context management patterns for application teams
• Engineering Enablement and Adoption Level up application engineers on agentic AI patterns, AWS Bedrock AgentCore, MCP, and related frameworks
• Create practical documentation, examples, and onboarding material
• Help teams move from experimentation to production-grade implementation
• Act as an advocate for secure, observable, and standardized agentic application development

Qualifications

• 5+ years of software engineering, application engineering, or cloud engineering experience
• 3+ years of hands-on AWS experience in the financial services industry or another highly regulated environment
• Demonstrated production experience with AWS Bedrock AgentCore, including deployment of agentic workflows into production
• Hands-on experience with Strands or similar agent orchestration frameworks
• Experience building agent tool registries, integration frameworks, or service discovery patterns
• Experience designing agent identity, authentication, authorization, and least-privilege access models
• Experience with agent observability, tracing, logging, cedar policies, evaluation frameworks, and operational monitoring
• Experience with memory management, knowledge bases, retrieval systems, and RAG architectures
• AWS engineering skills including IAM, networking, Lambda, ECS/EKS, CloudWatch, and security services
• Ability to communicate effectively with the ability to share knowledge with other engineering teams
• Experience developing and operating applications in production environments, ideally with high availability, security, and compliance

The base salary range for this position is $200,000 - $325,000 per year.

Arrowstreet Capital operates a robust talent acquisition program, and we also seek to compensate and reward our employees competitively within our industry and in line with our merit-based culture. Our approach to total compensation includes base salaries and annual discretionary bonuses, as well as a robust benefits package. The determination of a successful candidate's base salary placement within the listed range will vary based on the candidate's relevant experience and qualifications (which may also include relevant certifications, credentials and other education), the job responsibilities and scope, the commensurate resulting level of the position and other relevant factors. The listed range is also an estimate, and additional information regarding base salary and other elements of total compensation offered by Arrowstreet Capital to successful applicants will be communicated during the recruitment process.

Arrowstreet Capital is a Boston-based systematic investment firm that manages global equity portfolios for institutional investors around the world.

Arrowstreet Capital is a Boston-based systematic investment firm that manages global equity portfolios for institutional investors around the world.

All qualified applicants will receive consideration for employment without regard to sex, race, color, religion, national origin, ancestry, genetic information, age, pregnancy, medical condition, disability, veteran or military status, marital status or any other characteristic protected by federal, state, or local law.

All qualified applicants will receive consideration for employment without regard to sex, race, color, religion, national origin, ancestry, genetic information, age, pregnancy, medical condition, disability, veteran or military status, marital status or any other characteristic protected by federal, state, or local law.

Arrowstreet is an equal opportunity employer.

Arrowstreet Capital is committed to working with and providing reasonable accommodations for qualified individuals with disabilities and disabled veterans. If you need a reasonable accommodation for any part of the employment process due to a disability, contact us to discuss the nature of your request and contact information.

Arrowstreet Capital is committed to working with and providing reasonable accommodations for qualified individuals with disabilities and disabled veterans. If you need a reasonable accommodation for any part of the employment process due to a disability, contact us to discuss the nature of your request and contact information.