AI Platform Leader: Scalable, Secure, & Impactful

Tradermath; New York (NY); On-site; USD 275,000 - 300,000; Full time

Job summary

Schonfeld seeks a Head of AI Platforms to lead the strategy, architecture, engineering, and operation of the firm’s shared AI technology platform. You will own the roadmap for model serving, agent frameworks, and enterprise data integration, while guiding a hands-on engineering team.

You will partner with AI research, portfolio management, infrastructure, and cybersecurity to translate business priorities into reusable platform capabilities that scale securely and reliably.

Qualifications

• 10+ years in software/ platform engineering or distributed systems with senior leadership.
• Experience leading engineering teams and shared platforms used by multiple teams.
• Track record delivering complex capabilities from design to production.
• Strong understanding of LLMs, agentic systems, retrieval-augmented generation, model serving, and AI architectures.
• Hands-on development in Python and ability to contribute to critical implementations.
• Deep experience with APIs, Kubernetes, cloud or hybrid infrastructure, and automation.
• Strong reliability, observability, security, identity and access management knowledge.
• Excellent technical judgment, prioritization, and communication skills.
• Bachelor's degree in CS/Engineering/Math or equivalent practical experience.

Responsibilities

• Define and execute the firm's AI platform strategy and roadmap.
• Own the platform lifecycle, from technology evaluation and architecture through implementation, adoption, and ongoing operation.
• Lead build-versus-buy decisions across a rapidly evolving vendor landscape, balancing capability, integration requirements, cost, and operational risk.
• Establish clear platform priorities, service ownership, and measures of success across adoption, reliability, developer productivity, and cost.

Skills

Platform leadership

LLM architectures

Python development

Kubernetes

Cloud/hybrid infra

Security and IAM

Stakeholder communication

Architecture design

Team mentoring

Vendor management

Education

Bachelor's degree in Computer Science, Engineering, Mathematics, or related technical discipline

Tools

Kubernetes

Python

Job description

Schonfeld seeks a Head of AI Platforms to lead the strategy, architecture, engineering, and operation of the firm’s shared AI technology platform. You will own the roadmap for model serving, agent frameworks, and enterprise data integration, while guiding a hands-on engineering team.

You will partner with AI research, portfolio management, infrastructure, and cybersecurity to translate business priorities into reusable platform capabilities that scale securely and reliably.