Lead AI Platform Engineer: Scale & Innovate

100 Raymond James & Associates, Inc.; Saint Petersburg (FL); Hybrid; USD 150,000 - 210,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Hybrid work schedule

Benefits package included

Career growth opportunities

Job summary

Raymond James is seeking a hands-on Lead Engineer to guide the internal AI platform. You will define architecture, lead major platform initiatives, and mentor engineers across distributed teams, ensuring scalable, secure, and extensible solutions.

You will collaborate with product leadership, drive adoption, and sustain high engineering standards in a regulated financial-services environment.

Qualifications

• 8+ years of senior engineering experience building enterprise-grade software.
• At least 2 years of hands-on experience with large language models (LLMs) or AI agents.
• Experience with agentic coding tools like Claude Code or OpenAI Codex and IDEs like VSCode.
• Strong proficiency in Python and working knowledge of Node.js and TypeScript.
• Design or extend integrations between AI coding tools and external systems (Model Context Protocol, LangChain tools, Copilot extensions, JetBrains AI plugins).
• Able to reason about prompts, tool-use loops, and context window economics.
• Cross‑platform engineering across Windows, macOS, and Linux; installers and credential storage.
• Background in stacks like Python, Java/Spring, Angular/React, .NET, Oracle/Redshift/SQLServer.

Responsibilities

• Define and evolve the platform architecture for scalability and maintainability.
• Design cross-provider solutions compatible across AI providers and OSes.
• Establish engineering patterns and best practices for the broader team.
• Lead platform initiatives: installation, telemetry, secure sandboxing, and AI agent expansion.
• Maintain platform agility by evaluating new AI models and tools.
• Lead code and architectural reviews; support incident response and platform improvements.
• Provide technical leadership across distributed teams and mentor engineers.
• Engage with platform users to gather feedback and drive improvements.

Skills

Senior engineering

LLMs experience

AI agents

Python

Node.js

TypeScript

Cross-platform

CI/CD

Observability

Agile

Architecture

Education

Bachelor's degree in Computer Science

Tools

Azure DevOps

Jenkins

SonarQube

Datadog

VSCode

LangChain

LangGraph

Job description

Raymond James is seeking a hands-on Lead Engineer to guide the internal AI platform. You will define architecture, lead major platform initiatives, and mentor engineers across distributed teams, ensuring scalable, secure, and extensible solutions.

You will collaborate with product leadership, drive adoption, and sustain high engineering standards in a regulated financial-services environment.