AI Engineer - Vice President

iCapital; New York (NY); On-site; USD 170,000 - 210,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Salary range $170,000–$210,000

Equity and annual bonus

401(k) with match

Excellent health benefits

Parental leave

Unlimited PTO

Hybrid schedule: in-office Mon-Thu, 1/

Job summary

iCapital seeks a Vice President Artificial Intelligence Engineer to lead the design, development, and delivery of production-grade AI systems that drive measurable business outcomes across the firm. You will own key workstreams, mentor engineers, and partner with stakeholders to translate business needs into scalable AI solutions.

The role requires 7+ years shipping complex AI/ML systems, deep Python and cloud experience, and a track record of architectural leadership in FinTech environments.

Qualifications

• 7+ years delivering production AI/ML systems on AWS or similar platforms.
• Strong Python and software engineering practices.
• Experience building production AI solutions: LLMs, agents, RAG, document intelligence.
• End-to-end ML pipelines: training, deployment, monitoring, evaluation.
• Statistical rigor and measurable AI system performance.
• Leadership in design reviews and driving engineering excellence.
• Excellent written and verbal communication across stakeholders.
• Experience across AI domains incl. LLMs and ML platforms.
• FinTech familiarity preferred.

Responsibilities

• Lead the architecture and delivery of production AI systems at scale.
• Own AI projects end-to-end from scoping to deployment and improvement.
• Drive technical design and architectural decisions for the team.
• Architect evaluation frameworks and data benchmarks, ensure reproducibility.
• Partner with Product, Operations, Legal, and Business teams to identify AI opportunities.
• Mentor engineers and raise team capability.
• Identify systemic problems and improve processes to reduce debt.

Skills

Leadership

Cross-functional collaboration

Technical architecture

Communication

Mentoring

Problem solving

Tools

Python

AWS

LLM frameworks

RAG

MCP

A2A

Job description

Artificial Intelligence Engineer - Vice President

Department: Software Engineering

About the Role

iCapital is seeking a Vice President Artificial Intelligence Engineer to lead the design, development, and delivery of production-grade AI systems that drive measurable business outcomes across the firm. This individual will own key workstreams and serve as a technical leader, driving system design, mentoring engineers, partnering directly with business stakeholders, and ensuring that AI capabilities are built to production-grade standards of reliability, scalability, and measurability. The ideal candidate is a seasoned engineer with a track record of shipping complex AI systems end-to-end and someone who combines deep technical expertise with strong cross‑functional partnership, architectural judgment, and able to operate as a force multiplier for the team. This role is expected to bring independent judgment on a technical approach, a bias toward delivery, and able to translate ambiguous business needs into well‑scoped, well‑executed solutions.

Responsibilities

• Lead the architecture and delivery of production AI systems, including document intelligence (IDP), intelligent knowledge systems, agentic orchestration, conversational AI, and generative AI applications, to power internal and external business processes, digital experiences, and workflow automation at scale.
• Own AI projects end-to-end, from problem scoping and stakeholder alignment through solution design, implementation, deployment, monitoring, and continuous improvement, delivering tangible business outcomes with a track record of consistent, high‑quality delivery.
• Drive technical design and architectural decisions for the team, including API design, system decomposition, evaluation strategy, and infrastructure patterns, establishing standards that raise the quality bar across the AI/ML platform.
• Architect and champion robust evaluation frameworks for AI systems, defining statistically sound, problem‑specific metrics, curating benchmark datasets, and enforcing strict versioning to ensure reproducibility and continuous improvement.
• Partner directly with cross‑functional stakeholders, including the Product, Operations, Legal, and Business teams, to identify AI opportunities, translate requirements into technical plans, and communicate tradeoffs, risks, and recommendations clearly.
• Mentor and develop engineers on the team through code review, design review, pair problem‑solving, and knowledge sharing, acting as a technical role model and raising the overall capability of the group.
• Identify systemic problems and propose solutions, proactively improving team processes, tooling, and infrastructure to reduce technical debt and increase development velocity.

Qualifications

• 7+ years of experience developing and deploying production AI/ML systems, including cloud‑native solutions on AWS or similar platforms, with a proven track record of delivering complex applications from design through production.
• Strong proficiency in Python and software engineering best practices, including source control, CI/CD, testing, documentation, and the development of scalable, maintainable software.
• Deep expertise building production AI solutions, including LLM applications, AI agents, retrieval‑augmented generation (RAG), conversational AI, document intelligence, and agentic workflows, with hands‑on experience using modern AI frameworks, tooling, and protocols such as MCP and A2A.
• Experience designing, deploying, and operating end‑to‑end machine learning pipelines, including model training, deployment, monitoring, evaluation, and continuous improvement in production environments.
• Strong foundation in statistics, experimentation, data quality, and AI system evaluation, with experience developing benchmarks, defining performance metrics, analyzing errors, and optimizing systems for accuracy, reliability, scalability, cost, and latency.
• Experience leading technical design and architectural decisions, conducting code and design reviews, mentoring engineers, and driving engineering excellence across teams.
• Excellent written and verbal communication skills, with the ability to document technical solutions, collaborate with cross‑functional stakeholders, and communicate complex concepts to both technical and non‑technical audiences.
• Experience spanning multiple AI domains, including LLM systems, document intelligence, and ML platforms or infrastructure.
• Experience in financial services or FinTech, particularly within document‑heavy, regulated, or compliance‑sensitive environments is preferred.
• Contributions to open‑source projects, technical publications, conference presentations, patents, or other demonstrated thought leadership in applied AI and machine learning is preferred.

Benefits

• The base salary range for this role is $170,000 to $210,000.
• Salary, equity for all full‑time employees, and an annual performance bonus.
• An employer matched retirement plan.
• Generously subsidized healthcare with 100% employer paid dental, vision, telemedicine, and virtual mental health counseling.
• Parental leave.
• Unlimited paid time off (PTO).
• Employees in this role will work in the office Monday-Thursday, with the flexibility to work remotely on Friday.

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