Senior Forward Deployed AI Engineer

fde; New Jersey; Híbrido; USD 150.000 - 200.000; Jornada completa

Descripción de la vacante

Barclays is seeking a Senior Forward Deployed AI Engineer for the Markets Post Trade / Risk & Quantitative Analytics group at the Whippany, NJ campus. You will build production AI applications, including FastAPI/Flask services, RAG with vector databases, semantic search and reranking, and MCP/tool-calling orchestration, deployed cloud-native on AWS.

The role is VP-tier, hybrid onsite, and involves collaborating with senior stakeholders to reinvent investment banking research through AI,

Formación

• Senior Forward Deployed AI Engineer with leadership at VP level.

Responsabilidades

• Build production AI applications for Investment Banking Research.
• Develop FastAPI/Flask services and RAG with vector databases.
• Implement semantic search, reranking, and MCP/tool-calling orchestration.
• Deploy cloud-native solutions on AWS (ECS/EKS, Lambda, Bedrock).
• Collaborate with senior stakeholders to drive AI initiatives in finance.

Conocimientos

AI engineering

Stakeholder management

Cloud AWS

LangChain

RAG

Vector databases

Semantic search

Tool orchestration

Docker

APIs (FastAPI/Flask)

Herramientas

AWS ECS/EKS

AWS Lambda

Bedrock

Docker

FastAPI/Flask

Descripción del empleo

Senior Forward Deployed AI Engineer in Barclays' Markets Post Trade / Risk & Quantitative Analytics org, based at the Whippany, NJ tech campus. Build production agentic AI applications for Investment Banking Research: FastAPI/Flask services, RAG with vector databases, semantic search and reranking, MCP/tool-calling orchestration, deployed cloud-native on AWS (ECS/EKS, Lambda, Bedrock, Docker). VP-tier, hybrid onsite, 'not a traditional engineering role.' Parallel Forward Deployed AI Engineer reqs are live in London and Glasgow. $150,000–$200,000 base plus incentive award. Verified on Barclays' own careers site (req JR-0000123153).

A 300-year-old bank just posted an FDE role at VP level to 'reinvent Investment Banking Research through AI' — LangChain/CrewAI, RAG, MCP tool-calling, AWS Bedrock, embedded with senior stakeholders. When Barclays borrows Palantir's job title for its Markets division — and runs parallel reqs in London and Glasgow — the FDE motion has officially crossed into finance. $150–200K base before bonus.

Senior Forward Deployed AI Engineer at Barclays. Location: Whippany, NJ. Compensation: $150K–$200K base. Posted July 17, 2026.