Senior AI Engineer: Production-Grade AI & Automation

State Street; Burlington (MA); On-site; USD 130,000 - 190,000; Full time

Job summary

State Street seeks an AI Developer to advance AI-enabled capabilities across the Charles River Investment Management Solution and Alpha Platform. You will design, build, and scale production-grade AI systems embedded in investment workflows.

You will work hands-on with LLMs, AI orchestration, and distributed systems, translating patterns into secure, scalable enterprise solutions while collaborating with product owners, architects, and domain teams to operationalize AI across client-facing and

Qualifications

• Hands-on engineer with experience in LLMs, AI orchestration, and distributed systems.
• Experience building AI copilots, conversational interfaces, or agent-based systems.
• Experience with RAG architectures, embeddings, and vector databases.
• Familiarity with MCP frameworks, tool-calling patterns, and agent orchestration.
• Proficiency in Python and at least one other language (Java, C#, or TypeScript).

Responsibilities

• Design, develop, and deploy AI-powered services including copilots and automation tools.
• Build and integrate LLM-based solutions using orchestration frameworks and tool-calling patterns.
• Implement RAG pipelines using enterprise data sources and vector databases.
• Develop and integrate multi-agent systems using MCP servers, APIs, and A2A based tooling.
• Embed AI capabilities into core CRD and Alpha workflows across front, middle, and back-office processes.
• Build reusable AI enablement platforms, SDKs, and shared services for product teams.
• Integrate AI services with cloud platforms and enterprise systems.
• Expose AI capabilities through API Management layers and event-driven architectures.
• Ensure performance, scalability, and reliability of AI systems in production environments.
• Implement monitoring, evaluation, and observability for AI models and pipelines.
• Apply responsible AI practices (security, explainability, compliance, governance).
• Collaborate with product, architecture, data science, and UX teams to deliver end-to-end solutions.
• Participate in agile development processes including sprint planning, code reviews, and retrospectives.

Skills

LLMs

Prompt engineering

AI system design

Multi-agent systems

Python

Java

C#

TypeScript

API-driven architectures

Distributed systems

Cloud-native AI services

Kafka

Event streaming

CI/CD

Testing

Distributed caching

Education

B.S./M.S. in Computer Science/Engineering/Mathematics

Tools

Redis

Hazelcast

Job description

State Street seeks an AI Developer to advance AI-enabled capabilities across the Charles River Investment Management Solution and Alpha Platform. You will design, build, and scale production-grade AI systems embedded in investment workflows.

You will work hands-on with LLMs, AI orchestration, and distributed systems, translating patterns into secure, scalable enterprise solutions while collaborating with product owners, architects, and domain teams to operationalize AI across client-facing and