Principal Architect: AI-Driven High-Performance Systems

KX; New York (NY); Ibrido; USD 150.000 - 350.000; Tempo pieno

Vantaggi offerti da questo lavoro

Private healthcare package

Employee assistance programme

Enhanced maternity and paternity

Wellness Days

Volunteer Days

Tailored training and development

Descrizione del lavoro

KX is seeking a principal-level Forward Deployed Engineer to architect AI-enabled, high-performance data systems. You will work with investment banks, hedge funds, and exchanges to design, benchmark and deploy scalable solutions, operating inside customer environments and driving real production outcomes.

Hybrid role based out of New York or Toronto, with occasional client-site visits. You will lead architecture discussions, quantify improvements, and build reusable assets while influencing

Competenze

• Assess the customer environment and translate diagnostics into a defensible design.
• Identify GPU/accelerated-compute opportunities and quantify gains.
• Evaluate AI/agent use cases: feasibility, architecture, cost and operation requirements.
• Design a single coherent estate spanning KX technology and the customer data.
• Map the data estate with domain experts to understand ontology and opportunities.
• Quantify latency, throughput, scalability and cost gains credibly.
• Define engagement hypotheses and evaluation frameworks for AI deployments.
• Lead through to production with senior technical leadership and reusable assets.

Mansioni

• Assess the environment and diagnostics to inform architecture decisions.
• Lead GPU/accelerated-compute opportunities with data-backed case studies.
• Define and validate AI/agent architectures and operational requirements.
• Create a unified system design across KX tech and client data estates.
• Collaborate with quants, data owners and domain experts to map data.
• Measure and prove gains in latency, throughput and cost to stakeholders.
• Define evaluation frameworks and acceptance criteria for AI deployments.
• Drive production outcomes and build reusable diagnostics and accelerators.

Conoscenze

Cloud architecture

Python

AI/agent-system architecture

Executive credibility with CTOs

Capital-markets experience

Production AI systems

GPU acceleration

Q/KDB+ knowledge

Low-level programming (C/C++/Rust)

Time-series data stores

Descrizione del lavoro

KX is seeking a principal-level Forward Deployed Engineer to architect AI-enabled, high-performance data systems. You will work with investment banks, hedge funds, and exchanges to design, benchmark and deploy scalable solutions, operating inside customer environments and driving real production outcomes.

Hybrid role based out of New York or Toronto, with occasional client-site visits. You will lead architecture discussions, quantify improvements, and build reusable assets while influencing