Senior AI Platform Engineer — Agentic AI Systems

Versant Media; Englewood Cliffs (NJ); Hybrid; USD 150,000 - 230,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Fitness center and wellness facilities

Gourmet cafeteria

Dry cleaning services

Shuttle transportation to NYC area

Job summary

Versant Media, with CNBC backing, seeks a Senior AI Engineer to build the next generation of AI-powered equity research. You will design, implement, and operate distributed agentic AI systems integrated into real‑world investor workflows.

The role emphasizes hands‑on architecture, implementation, and operations across LLM technologies, retrieval systems, and production‑grade pipelines, collaborating with market professionals and senior leadership in a fast‑paced, highly collaborative setting.

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.
• Solid understanding of cloud computing primitives, especially AWS.
• Strong understanding of agentic AI concepts such as tool use, function calling, state machines or graphs, retrieval and reranking, structured outputs, memory, guardrails, and evaluation.
• Experience developing and deploying agentic workflows using frameworks such as LangChain, Mastra, or LangGraph.
• Experience contributing to system design and technical decision-making.
• Experience shipping and operating multiple GenAI or LLM-powered systems in production.
• Hands‑on experience debugging scaled LLM systems and participating in incident response.
• Experience building RAG pipelines using embeddings and vector databases.
• Familiarity with fine‑tuning or adapting models for specific tasks.
• Experience implementing evaluation pipelines, including human‑in‑the‑loop workflows.
• Experience building or maintaining evaluation suites for agentic systems in production.

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

TypeScript

AWS

Agentic AI concepts

LangChain

System design

GenAI production

LLM debugging

RAG pipelines

Model evaluation

Education

Bachelor’s degree in Computer Science or equivalent practical experience

Tools

LangChain

Mastra

LangGraph

Python

Job description

Versant Media, with CNBC backing, seeks a Senior AI Engineer to build the next generation of AI-powered equity research. You will design, implement, and operate distributed agentic AI systems integrated into real‑world investor workflows.

The role emphasizes hands‑on architecture, implementation, and operations across LLM technologies, retrieval systems, and production‑grade pipelines, collaborating with market professionals and senior leadership in a fast‑paced, highly collaborative setting.