Senior AI Engineer II: Agentic AI Architect

American Express; New York (NY); On-site; USD 180,000 - 240,000; Full time

Job summary

American Express is hiring a Senior AI Engineer II – Agentic AI to turn complex problems into production-grade agentic systems using real financial data and regulatory standards. You will shape solutions with product and design, ship production code, and own delivered features post-launch.

The role covers customer-facing LLM-powered features, agentic workflows for financial processes, and internal AI capabilities enabling other engineers to build safely with AI.

Qualifications

• 8+ years of software engineering experience with LLMs or applied ML systems.
• Shipping AI-powered or agentic systems that real users depend on.
• Strong fundamentals across backend systems, APIs, data pipelines, and cloud infrastructure.

Responsibilities

• Design, build, and ship LLM-powered agentic features for customer finance management.
• Build agentic AI systems that reason over context and recover from failures.
• Architect and implement production-grade RAG pipelines over financial data with auditability.

Skills

LLMs/Applied ML

Agentic AI

Backend systems

APIs

Cloud infrastructure

Kubernetes

Kafka

REST/gRPC

Tools

Python

Go

TypeScript

AWS

GCP

Job description

American Express is hiring a Senior AI Engineer II – Agentic AI to turn complex problems into production-grade agentic systems using real financial data and regulatory standards. You will shape solutions with product and design, ship production code, and own delivered features post-launch.

The role covers customer-facing LLM-powered features, agentic workflows for financial processes, and internal AI capabilities enabling other engineers to build safely with AI.