Senior AI Engineer I - CETS Data Engineering

At American Express, our culture is built on a 175-year history of innovation, shared values and Leadership Behaviors, and an unwavering commitment to back our customers, communities, and colleagues. As part of Team Amex, you'll experience this powerful backing with comprehensive support for your holistic well-being and many opportunities to learn new skills, develop as a leader, and grow your career.

Here, your voice and ideas matter, your work makes an impact, and together, you will help us define the future of American Express.

How will you make an impact in this role?

• Mentors junior AI Engineers and cross-functional team of colleagues, fostering a culture of excellence and innovation
• Integrates AI models into production systems in collaboration with cross-functional teams, ensuring effective integration into existing production systems
• Maintains strict adherence to model governance, security, and compliance standards
• Provides guidance and support to junior engineers, fostering professional growth and development within the team
• Designs and implements AI/machine learning frameworks for data processing, focusing on prompt engineering and generative AI technologies
• Collaborates with engineers to deliver scalable AI solutions by integrating models that meet both technical and business requirements
• Translates business requirements into AI-driven technical solutions, ensuring that business needs are converted into actionable models and algorithms
• Develops reusable Big Data pipelines and AI-based systems, ensuring efficiency and consistency in data processing and model deployment
• Experiments with and deploys new natural language processing models to classify and analyze business-related text data, conducting research to improve text classification and analysis
• Creates end-to-end machine learning operations pipelines for scalable model deployment, facilitating seamless deployment, monitoring, and maintenance of AI models
• Collaborates and co-creates effectively with teams in product and the business to align technology initiatives with business objectives

`Minimum Qualifications

• Bachelor's degree in Computer Science, Machine Learning, Data Science, and/or comparable experience; advanced degree preferred
• Knowledge of Python and data processing technologies such as Big Data (Hadoop, Spark)
• Knowledge of natural language processing techniques like fuzzy wuzzy and models such as BERT, Transformer models, and their real-world applications
• 3-5 years experience in software development with a focus on machine learning, generative AI, Big Data, and prompt engineering
• Experience in working with large language models (LLMs), especially GPT-3.5/4 or similar AI models
• Experience in languages such as Python, R, Java, or C++
• Experience in building and deploying AI models and pipelines using machine learning operations tools including Classical ML, Generative AI, Prompt Engineering, LangChain and NLU/NLP
• Experience in machine learning algorithms and experience applying them to real-world problems
• Experience in continuous integration/continuous deployment pipelines and containerized deployments
• Experience in building and maintaining data pipelines and extract, transform, and load processes

Preferred Qualifications

• Experience taking models through AI/ML governance, in a highly regulated industry, a plus
  

Salary Range: $123,000.00 to $215,250.00 annually + bonus + benefits

The above represents the expected salary range for this job requisition. Ultimately, in determining your pay, we’ll consider your location, experience, and other job-related factors.

We back you with benefits that support your holistic well-being so you can be and deliver your best. This means caring for you and your loved ones' physical, financial, and mental health, as well as providing the flexibility you need to thrive personally and professionally:

• Competitive base salaries
• Bonus incentives
• 6% Company Match on retirement savings plan
• Free financial coaching and financial well-being support
• Comprehensive medical, dental, vision, life insurance, and disability benefits
• Flexible working model with hybrid, onsite or virtual arrangements depending on role and business need
• 20+ weeks paid parental leave for all parents, regardless of gender, offered for pregnancy, adoption or surrogacy
• Free access to global on-site wellness centers staffed with nurses and doctors (depending on location)
• Free and confidential counseling support through our Healthy Minds program
• Career development and training opportunities

For a full list of Team Amex benefits, visit our Colleague Benefits Site.

American Express is an equal opportunity employer and makes employment decisions without regard to race, color, religion, sex, sexual orientation, gender identity, national origin, veteran status, disability status, age, or any other status protected by law. American Express will consider for employment all qualified applicants, including those with arrest or conviction records, in accordance with the requirements of applicable state and local laws, including, but not limited to, the California Fair Chance Act, the Los Angeles County Fair Chance Ordinance for Employers, and the City of Los Angeles’ Fair Chance Initiative for Hiring Ordinance. For positions covered by federal and/or state banking regulations, American Express will comply with such regulations as it relates to the consideration of applicants with criminal convictions.

We back our colleagues with the support they need to thrive, professionally and personally. That's why we have Amex Flex, our enterprise working model that provides greater flexibility to colleagues while ensuring we preserve the important aspects of our unique in-person culture. Depending on role and business needs, colleagues will either work onsite, in a hybrid model (combination of in-office and virtual days) or fully virtually.

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