AI Solutions Engineer: End-to-End AI for Finance

Chatham Financial; Kennett Square (Chester County); Hybrid; USD 200,000 - 275,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Health insurance

Life and disability insurance

401k

EAP

Paid holidays and paid time off

Job summary

Chatham Financial is seeking an AI Solutions Engineer to design, build, and deploy AI-powered solutions that improve high-value business workflows. You will partner with stakeholders, own problems end-to-end, and deliver tangible value from discovery through production.

This hybrid role blends deep technical work with client-facing advisory responsibilities. You’ll work with private equity, real estate, and capital markets clients, leveraging LLMs, data pipelines, and modern web tech to create

Qualifications

• 7+ years of software engineering experience, ideally with client-facing or consulting exposure.
• Strong programming skills in Python; experience with TypeScript/JavaScript a plus.
• Hands-on experience building with LLMs (GPT, Claude, etc.) - RAG, prompt engineering, fine-tuning, or agentic systems.
• Experience taking AI/ML projects from prototype to production.
• Excellent communication skills - can explain technical concepts to executives and collaborate with non-technical stakeholders.
• Bachelor's degree in Computer Science, Engineering, Mathematics, or equivalent experience.
• Experience in financial services, private equity, or real estate.
• Background at a startup (especially as early engineer) or consulting firm.
• Experience with data pipelines, ETL, and working with messy enterprise data.
• Familiarity with cloud platforms (AWS, Azure, GCP).
• Experience with vector databases, embeddings, and semantic search.

Responsibilities

• Engage with private equity firms, real estate investors, and capital markets clients to identify AI opportunities.
• Lead discovery conversations to scope solutions and present recommendations to technical and executive stakeholders.
• Architect custom AI solutions: workflow automation, data extraction, reporting, and AI agents.
• Write production code in Python and modern web frameworks; integrate LLMs.
• Build RAG systems, agentic workflows, and AI applications; own full stack from data ingestion to UI.
• Create rapid prototypes and validate value with real users and data; iterate based on feedback.
• Take solutions from prototype to production; ensure reliability, security, and maintainability.

Skills

Python

TypeScript/JavaScript

LLMs

Prompt engineering

Communication

Education

Bachelor's degree in Computer Science, Engineering, Mathematics, or equivalent

Tools

Data pipelines

ETL

Cloud platforms (AWS, Azure, GCP)

Vector databases

Job description

Chatham Financial is seeking an AI Solutions Engineer to design, build, and deploy AI-powered solutions that improve high-value business workflows. You will partner with stakeholders, own problems end-to-end, and deliver tangible value from discovery through production.

This hybrid role blends deep technical work with client-facing advisory responsibilities. You’ll work with private equity, real estate, and capital markets clients, leveraging LLMs, data pipelines, and modern web tech to create