Applied AI Engineer

Millennium; New York (NY); On-site; USD 175,000 - 250,000; Full time

Job summary

Millennium seeks an innovative AI Engineer to advance agentic automation and predictive models within its Central AI team in New York. You will build scalable agent systems, integrate tools, and ensure reliable performance across business functions, from alpha capture to compliance.

The role emphasizes hands-on ML/LLM work, end-to-end project ownership, and collaboration with traders, CFOs, and other teams to turn research into production-ready capabilities.

Qualifications

• 3+ years shipping production software, ML, or AI systems; proven delivered work.
• Strong Python and engineering fundamentals; prototypes become products.
• Hands-on LLM and agent experience: tool use, orchestration, retrieval, evals.
• Supervised ML depth: training, validation, feature engineering, drift awareness.
• Comfort with messy/unknown data and quick functional fluency.
• Autonomy to embed with trader or CFO teams and own end-to-end problems.

Responsibilities

• Own agentic process automation: build agents with integrations and audits.
• Develop prediction/decision-support models using firm data.
• Create document intelligence pipelines for contracts, emails, transcripts.
• Build entity intelligence and self-improving systems with knowledge graphs.
• Collaborate with business teams from initial convo to deployment.
• Turn proven solutions into reusable capabilities for the firm.

Skills

Python

LLM & Agent Experience

ML systems

Structured outputs

Validation & Evaluation

Data wrangling

Education

Bachelor’s degree in Computer Science, Engineering, Mathematics, Physics, or related quantitative discipline

Job description

About Millennium

Millennium is a global, diversified alternative investment firm, founded in 1989. Defined by evolution, innovation and focus, Millennium’s mission is to deliver results for our investors.

Our people are empowered with both independence and support: the autonomy to pursue ideas with conviction and the backing of a global network committed to collaboration, disciplined risk management and continuous learning. With opportunities to deepen expertise and accelerate development, talent at Millennium is equipped to adapt, evolve and build lasting impact over time. Discover how transformative growth accelerates impact.

Meet the Team

Central AI sits within Millennium’s Information Technology organization, where flexible, scalable technology and advanced proprietary systems are core to the health and growth of the business, including the development of the next generation of analytical and trading capabilities. The Central AI team carries a broad mandate: bring AI to every function that runs the firm, spanning business development, alpha capture, execution services, risk management, finance, operations and middle office, legal, compliance, and recruiting. When a business team has a problem AI can solve, Central AI determines the right approach and ships the solution. You own everything from that conversation through architecture, deployment, evaluation, and iteration, then turn what works into reusable capabilities for the whole firm. Finance experience is not required, and in this seat you’ll rapidly deploy agents and provide analysis on edge cases as opposed to solely focusing on cherry‑picked projects.

What You’ll Do

• Own agentic process automation: reverse‑engineer manual, undocumented workflows and build agents that execute them reliably, including tool integrations, orchestration, human‑in‑the‑loop checkpoints, state management, and auditability.
• Build prediction and decision‑support models: forecasting, anomaly detection, ranking, matching, and classification over years of accumulated firm data, with proper validation and monitoring.
• Develop document intelligence pipelines for extraction, classification, and review across contracts, filings, emails, and transcripts.
• Build entity intelligence and self‑improving systems, including knowledge graphs, entity resolution, enrichment pipelines, and eval/feedback loops that improve deployed systems over time.
• Embed directly with business teams to scope problems end‑to‑end, owning everything from the initial conversation through architecture, deployment, evaluation, and iteration.
• Turn proven solutions into reusable capabilities for the broader firm.

What You Bring

• 3+ years shipping production software, ML, or AI systems (flexible for exceptional builders; what you’ve shipped matters more than years served).
• Bachelor’s degree in Computer Science, Engineering, Mathematics, Physics, or a related quantitative discipline.
• Strong Python and engineering fundamentals; your prototypes become products others build on.
• Substantial hands‑on LLM and agentic experience: tool use, orchestration, structured outputs, retrieval, evals, and calibrated judgment about what agents can reliably do.
• Supervised ML depth: training, validation, feature engineering, and awareness of pitfalls like leakage, overfitting, and drift.
• Comfort with messy, heterogeneous data and unfamiliar domains, with the ability to become functionally fluent within days and earn credibility with subject‑matter experts.
• The autonomy to embed with a trader’s team or a CFO’s team, understand their world, and build without waiting for a spec.

Salary Range

Millennium offers a total compensation package which includes a base salary, discretionary performance bonus, and comprehensive benefits. The estimated base salary range for this position is $175,000 to $250,000, which is specific to New York and may change in the future. When finalizing an offer, we take into consideration an individual’s experience level and the qualifications they bring to the role to formulate a competitive total compensation package.