VP-Level Forward Deployed AI Engineer – Finance Research

fde; New Jersey; Hybrid; USD 150,000 - 200,000; Full time

Job summary

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,

Qualifications

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

Responsibilities

• 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.

Skills

AI engineering

Stakeholder management

Cloud AWS

LangChain

RAG

Vector databases

Semantic search

Tool orchestration

Docker

APIs (FastAPI/Flask)

Tools

AWS ECS/EKS

AWS Lambda

Bedrock

Docker

FastAPI/Flask

Job description

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,