VP, AI Engineer

A financial firm is looking for a VP, AI Engineer to join their team in New York, NY

Compensation: $200-250K

US Citizens/GC Holders Only; No Visa Sponsorship

Must be local; This is a hybrid role

Within this role, you will lead the design, development, and delivery of production-grade AI systems that drive measurable business outcomes across the firm.

Responsibilities:

• Lead production AI systems (IDP, knowledge systems, agentic orchestration) for enterprise-scale workflow automation.
• Scope, design, deploy, and monitor AI projects from initial alignment to continuous production improvement.
• Drive API design, system architecture, evaluation strategies, and infrastructure standards across the AI/ML platform.
• Build robust, statistically sound evaluation metrics, benchmark datasets, and versioning systems for reproducible AI.
• Partner with Product, Operations, and Legal to translate business needs into technical plans and communicate risks/trade-offs.
• Coach engineers via code/design reviews and pair programming to elevate team capabilities and reduce technical debt.

Qualifications:

• At least a Bachelor's Degree in Computer Science, Engineering, or related technical field.
• 7+ years developing production AI/ML systems using AWS or cloud-native patterns.
• Strong Python skills with mastery of best practices (CI/CD, testing, source control, documentation).
• Experience designing and operating end-to-end ML pipelines (training, serving, monitoring).
• Track record of driving architectural decisions and mentoring engineering teams.
• Ability to distill complex technical concepts for both technical and non-technical stakeholders.