Hybrid AI Platform Engineer – Associate

New York Life; New York (NY); Hybrid; USD 81,000 - 116,000; Full time

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Job summary

New York Life, within the TDAV organization, is building a small, highly technical AI engineering team to create the enterprise AI platform and the first generation of agentic AI solutions.

As an Associate AI Engineer, you will contribute to both platform and product development, work with senior engineers, and gain hands‑on experience across cloud infrastructure, retrieval systems, multi‑agent workflows, and governance features to deliver scalable, measurable business value.

Qualifications

• 1–3 years of software engineering experience.
• Experience with Python and modern application development.
• Exposure to cloud technologies, APIs, CI/CD, testing, and distributed systems concepts.
• Familiarity with AI/ML concepts, LLMs, RAG, embeddings, or agent frameworks through coursework, projects, internships, or professional experience.
• Strong problem‑solving and communication skills.

Responsibilities

• Contribute to enterprise AI platform capabilities, including agent lifecycle services, developer tooling, runtime orchestration, workflow management, and governance features.
• Build and support production‑ready AI applications and agentic workflows that leverage retrieval, tool integration, memory, and human‑in‑the‑loop processes.
• Implement and maintain enterprise knowledge systems using semantic search, vector databases, embeddings, and retrieval‑augmented generation (RAG).
• Develop cloud‑native services and infrastructure using Google Cloud Platform, Kubernetes, CI/CD pipelines, and Infrastructure as Code.
• Support deployment, monitoring, testing, and operational management of AI models and agent‑based systems.
• Collaborate with senior engineers to incorporate responsible AI, security, governance, and compliance controls into solutions.
• Leverage AI‑assisted engineering tools such as GitHub Copilot, Cursor, Claude Code, or similar technologies as part of daily development work.

Skills

Python

Cloud technologies

APIs

CI/CD

Testing

Distributed systems

AI/ML concepts

LLMs

RAG

Embeddings

Agent frameworks

Communication

Tools

GitHub Copilot

Cursor

Claude Code

Job description

New York Life, within the TDAV organization, is building a small, highly technical AI engineering team to create the enterprise AI platform and the first generation of agentic AI solutions.

As an Associate AI Engineer, you will contribute to both platform and product development, work with senior engineers, and gain hands‑on experience across cloud infrastructure, retrieval systems, multi‑agent workflows, and governance features to deliver scalable, measurable business value.