Senior AI Platform Engineer: Agentic AI & LLM Systems

Versant Media; Englewood Cliffs (NJ); Hybrid; USD 180,000 - 240,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Onsite fitness center

Gourmet cafeteria

Dry cleaning

Shuttle to Manhattan/Hoboken/Jersey

Job summary

Versant Media, the CNBC-backed entity at CNBC Headquarters in Englewood Cliffs, NJ, is seeking a Senior AI Engineer to build the next generation of AI-powered equity research products. You will work on distributed agentic AI systems, model integrations, and production-grade data pipelines.

You will collaborate with engineers, analysts, and leadership to shape product design, architecture, and deployment practices while staying hands-on across implementation and operations in a hybrid work

Qualifications

• Bachelor’s degree in Computer Science or equivalent practical experience.
• 5+ years designing, building, and maintaining software systems.
• Strong backend expertise in a typed language, preferably TypeScript.
• Experience shipping GenAI or LLM-powered systems in production.
• Experience building RAG pipelines using embeddings and vector databases.
• Experience contributing to system design and technical decision-making.

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.
• Use and improve model lifecycle management, monitoring, and evaluation frameworks.

Skills

Backend expertise in TypeScript

AWS cloud computing

Agentic AI concepts

GenAI / LLM production

LLM workflows

Observability & monitoring

Collaboration across teams

Incident response

Data pipelines

Evaluation & bias mitigation

Education

Bachelor’s degree in Computer Science or equivalent practical experience

Tools

LangChain

Mastra

LangGraph

Job description

Versant Media, the CNBC-backed entity at CNBC Headquarters in Englewood Cliffs, NJ, is seeking a Senior AI Engineer to build the next generation of AI-powered equity research products. You will work on distributed agentic AI systems, model integrations, and production-grade data pipelines.

You will collaborate with engineers, analysts, and leadership to shape product design, architecture, and deployment practices while staying hands-on across implementation and operations in a hybrid work