Senior AI Engineer: LLM & Agentic Systems

Versant; Englewood Cliffs (NJ); Hybrid; USD 140,000 - 175,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Free onsite fitness center

Gourmet cafeteria

Dry cleaning

Free shuttle to Manhattan

Job summary

VERSANT, now part of CNBC, is seeking a Senior AI Engineer to build next‑gen AI-powered equity research. The role is hybrid, three days in the Englewood Cliffs office, with access to senior market professionals and cutting‑edge data systems.

You will design, build, and operate core AI platform components, including distributed workflows, retrieval and reranking, and model integrations, ensuring reliability and scalability in production.

Qualifications

• Bachelor’s degree in Computer Science or equivalent practical experience.
• Minimum of 5 years of experience designing, building, and maintaining software systems.
• Strong backend expertise in at least one strongly typed language, preferably TypeScript.
• Experience shipping and operating multiple GenAI or LLM-powered systems in production.
• Hands-on experience debugging scaled LLM systems and participating in incident response.

Responsibilities

• Build end-to-end distributed agentic AI solutions that are reliable and scalable.
• Own complex features or subsystems from design through deployment and operation.
• Collaborate cross-functionally to integrate AI capabilities into products and data pipelines.
• Contribute to architectural decisions and technical standards for AI systems.
• Maintain observability and operational health, including cost metrics, quality monitoring, drift detection, alignment, alerting, and incident response.
• Support the team’s overall technical growth.
• Identify and mitigate risks in AI systems, including performance regressions, bias, and operational issues.

Skills

Python

Distributed systems

LLM workflows

Terraform / cloud basics

Data pipelines

Observability

Problem solving

Communication

Education

Bachelor's degree in Computer Science

Tools

LangChain

LangGraph

AWS

Mastra

Job description

VERSANT, now part of CNBC, is seeking a Senior AI Engineer to build next‑gen AI-powered equity research. The role is hybrid, three days in the Englewood Cliffs office, with access to senior market professionals and cutting‑edge data systems.

You will design, build, and operate core AI platform components, including distributed workflows, retrieval and reranking, and model integrations, ensuring reliability and scalability in production.