Senior AI Systems Architect — Agentic AI & Infra

The Options Clearing Corporation; Chicago (IL); On-site; USD 128,000 - 177,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Hybrid work up to 2 days remote

Tuition Reimbursement

Student Loan Repayment Assistance

Technology Stipend

Generous PTO and Parental leave

401k Employer Match

Medical, dental and vision benefits

Job summary

The Options Clearing Corporation (OCC) is seeking an Associate Principal, AI Engineering to lead end-to-end design and delivery of agentic AI systems on Anthropic's Claude models and AWS infrastructure. You will mentor junior engineers and shape AI application and infrastructure strategies in a greenfield environment.

Responsibilities include architecting orchestration patterns, building evaluation pipelines, and implementing safeguards for AI risks, while ensuring traceability with audit logs

Qualifications

• Bachelor's degree in Computer Science, Engineering, or a related technical field; Master's preferred.
• 4-7 years of software engineering experience, with production AI/LLM systems experience preferred.
• Experience mentoring or elevating the work of junior engineers.

Responsibilities

• Own the design and delivery of agentic AI systems end-to-end, from architecture through production deployment.
• Architect agent orchestration patterns, tool and context integration, and evaluation pipelines for reliability in a regulated environment.
• Own AI infrastructure supporting AIRE's agents and applications on AWS, and contribute to the team's growing infrastructure self-sufficiency.
• Implement technical safeguards against AI-specific risks, including hallucination detection, prompt injection defense, and output validation, in collaboration with OCC's AI Governance function.
• Build audit logging and human-in-the-loop checkpoints into agentic workflows so agent actions remain traceable and reviewable in a regulated environment.
• Mentor Associate and Senior Associate engineers through code and architecture review.
• Contribute technical point of view to the team's evolving engineering standards and practices, in partnership with the Executive Director.

Skills

Python

SQL

Distributed systems

API design

LLM-powered apps

AI security

AWS

Docker

CI/CD

Claude API

MCP

Kubernetes

Terraform

Data engineering

Education

Bachelor's degree in Computer Science or related field

Master's degree preferred

Tools

Claude API

Anthropic Claude

Terraform

Docker

Kubernetes

CI/CD

AWS

Job description

The Options Clearing Corporation (OCC) is seeking an Associate Principal, AI Engineering to lead end-to-end design and delivery of agentic AI systems on Anthropic's Claude models and AWS infrastructure. You will mentor junior engineers and shape AI application and infrastructure strategies in a greenfield environment.

Responsibilities include architecting orchestration patterns, building evaluation pipelines, and implementing safeguards for AI risks, while ensuring traceability with audit logs