Corporate Technology - AI ML Lead
Chicago, IL, United States
Full time - Day shift
Base Pay/Salary: Chicago,IL $137,750.00-$235,000.00
Location: 10 S Dearborn St, Chicago, IL, 60603, US
Job Description
Join a team that owns end-to-end delivery of priority IPB AI/ML use cases, from problem framing and business case through to deployed, monitored production services with measurable advisor and client impact.
Job Responsibilities
- Owns end-to-end delivery of priority IPB AI/ML use cases, from problem framing and business case through to deployed, monitored production services with measurable advisor and client impact
- Leads the engineering build of agentic AI and LLM-powered products serving IPB advisors and clients across international markets
- Sets the engineering quality bar for the team's AI products through code reviews, technical design, and pairing with peers and junior engineers
- Establishes and operates Responsible AI controls in production (guardrails, evaluation frameworks, observability, and model risk controls) to firm-wide standards
- Acts as a primary technical partner to IPB business stakeholders, surfacing new AI/ML opportunities and shaping them into funded workstreams
- Represents the AIML team in firm-wide AI/ML governance and engineering forums; ensures cross-border, regulatory, and data-privacy considerations are reflected in solution design
Required qualifications, capabilities, and skills
- Master's degree in Computer Science, Data Science, Engineering, or a related quantitative field (or equivalent applied experience); Formal training or certification on AI/ML engineering concepts and 5+ years applied experience
- Advanced proficiency in Python and modern software engineering practices (testing, design patterns, code review, version control)
- Fluent with AI coding tools (e.g., Claude Code, GitHub Copilot) as a core part of day-to-day software development, with the judgement to know when to lean on them and when not to
- Hands-on experience building, evaluating, and deploying machine learning models into production and practical experience with Large Language Models, including prompt engineering, RAG, fine-tuning, and agentic frameworks
- Practical experience with CI/CD, containerization, and cloud-native deployment patterns
- Demonstrated experience delivering system design, application development, testing, and operational stability for ML or data-intensive systems
- Experience applying new methods to determine solutions for complex technology problems across multiple technical discipline
Preferred qualifications, capabilities, and skills
- Industry-recognised cloud / GenAI certification (e.g., AWS Certified Generative AI Developer - Professional, or similar)
- Experience within financial services technology, particularly wealth, private banking, or asset management
- Experience with Databricks, Kubernetes, or comparable ML / cloud platforms
- Experience designing or contributing to AI governance, model validation, or guardrail frameworks