Lead AI Engineer for Production GenAI & Scalable Systems

Capital Group; Irvine (CA); On-site; USD 179,273 - 286,837; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Time off and health benefits

Charitable giving 2-for-1 matches

Professional development resources

Job summary

Capital Group in Irvine seeks an AI Engineer Lead to partner with investment professionals and build production AI solutions that improve investment processes. This hands-on role bridges business needs and the AI platform, from discovery to deployment.

You will design retrieval augmented generation pipelines, build agents, and ensure responsible AI with security and compliance. Strong experience with LLMs, systems, and cost-aware operations is essential to scale across the firm.

Qualifications

• 10+ years of professional software engineering experience with Python.
• Hands-on production experience building and shipping LLM-powered apps.
• Experience designing end-to-end RAG pipelines and integrating with real systems.
• Strong understanding of distributed systems and cloud-native development.

Responsibilities

• Partner with business teams to scope opportunities and translate needs into specs.
• Design, build, and deploy production generative AI applications and agents.
• Architect retrieval-augmented generation pipelines with embeddings, storage, and prompts.
• Develop agentic workflows with auditable boundaries and guardrails.
• Define evaluation criteria and measure correctness and latency.
• Own end-to-end rollout, observability, and cost tracking.
• Ensure security, privacy, and compliance controls in systems.

Skills

Python

LLM applications

RAG pipelines

System design

Eval guardrails

Communication skills

Regulatory navigation

Education

Bachelor's degree in Computer Science or related field

Equivalent practical experience

Job description

Capital Group in Irvine seeks an AI Engineer Lead to partner with investment professionals and build production AI solutions that improve investment processes. This hands-on role bridges business needs and the AI platform, from discovery to deployment.

You will design retrieval augmented generation pipelines, build agents, and ensure responsible AI with security and compliance. Strong experience with LLMs, systems, and cost-aware operations is essential to scale across the firm.