Enterprise AI Platform Architect – Senior Staff

Aimlroles; New York (NY); On-site; USD 180,000 - 240,000; Full time

Job summary

American Express is seeking a Senior Staff AI Engineer to lead enterprise-scale AI architecture and implementations across infrastructure and agentic AI systems in New York. You will set technical direction, ensure scalable, secure AI platforms, and mentor senior engineers to elevate engineering practices.

The role partners with diverse teams to align AI solutions with enterprise priorities, oversee complex challenges, and drive continuous improvements in AI systems while maintaining regulatory

Qualifications

• 12+ years of experience in AI/ML engineering, AI infrastructure, platform engineering, data engineering, or related fields.
• Proven experience architecting end-to-end AI/ML platforms across data pipelines, training, deployment, serving, monitoring, and inference optimization.
• Experience with GPU-based AI infrastructure, including accelerated compute platforms and workload scheduling.

Responsibilities

• Defines architecture and engineering patterns for agentic AI, retrieval/grounding, model integration, inference platforms, observability, evaluation, and safety.
• Leads resolution of complex and ambiguous technical challenges, balancing performance, cost, scalability, security, safety, and regulatory constraints.
• Shapes long-term AI engineering strategy across platforms, tools, and system design approaches.
• Guides multiple cross-team AI initiatives to ensure coherent architecture, integration, and alignment across domains.
• Leads technical and architectural reviews, setting standards for engineering excellence and consistent implementation.
• Partners with Product, Data Engineering, Cloud Infrastructure, Architecture, Risk, and Cybersecurity leaders to align AI solutions with enterprise priorities and governance requirements.
• Evaluates emerging AI technologies and translates them into scalable, enterprise-ready capabilities.
• Mentors Staff and Senior Engineers, raising organizational technical capability and developing future technical leaders.

Skills

AI architecture

Python

GPU computing

Cloud-native

Cross-team collaboration

Education

MS/PhD in Artificial Intelligence, ML, CS

Tools

Harness

Hugging Face

PyTorch

TensorFlow

Kubernetes

Job description

American Express is seeking a Senior Staff AI Engineer to lead enterprise-scale AI architecture and implementations across infrastructure and agentic AI systems in New York. You will set technical direction, ensure scalable, secure AI platforms, and mentor senior engineers to elevate engineering practices.

The role partners with diverse teams to align AI solutions with enterprise priorities, oversee complex challenges, and drive continuous improvements in AI systems while maintaining regulatory