Senior AI Engineer – Fintech Agentic Systems (Onsite)

American Express; Phoenix (AZ); On-site; USD 123,000 - 215,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Visa sponsorship

Job summary

American Express Technology seeks a Senior AI Engineer II to build production-grade agentic AI systems that work with real financial data and serve real customers within a regulated environment.

Responsibilities include end-to-end ownership, partnering with product and design to shape solutions, and shipping production code while maintaining accountability for releases. The role emphasizes customer-facing features and safe AI adoption for engineers.

Qualifications

• 5+ years of software engineering experience, including meaningful production experience with LLMs or applied ML systems.
• Shipping AI-powered or agentic systems that real users rely on.
• Strong engineering fundamentals across backend systems, APIs, data pipelines, and cloud infrastructure.
• Hands-on experience with modern LLM tooling and agentic patterns and architectures.
• Fluency with AI-assisted and agentic development workflows.
• Strong sense of ownership and sound technical judgment.
• Comfort operating with ambiguity and turning it into shipped, reliable product outcomes.
• Product mindset with a customer orientation.

Responsibilities

• Convert complex problems into production-grade agentic systems that operate on real financial data and serve real customers within regulatory constraints.
• Own delivery end-to-end, partnering with product and design to shape solutions, shipping production code and ensuring released quality.
• Build customer-facing LLM-powered features and internal AI capabilities to help engineers adopt AI safely and efficiently.
• Work autonomously with sound judgment, pushing technical boundaries while adhering to regulated financial environment.

Skills

5+ years experience

LLMs

Backend systems

APIs

Data pipelines

Cloud infrastructure

Modern LLM tooling

Agentic patterns

AI workflows

Ownership mindset

Job description

American Express Technology seeks a Senior AI Engineer II to build production-grade agentic AI systems that work with real financial data and serve real customers within a regulated environment.

Responsibilities include end-to-end ownership, partnering with product and design to shape solutions, and shipping production code while maintaining accountability for releases. The role emphasizes customer-facing features and safe AI adoption for engineers.