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SMBC Group · 3 days ago

AI/GenAI Staff Engineer - Vice President

Charlotte, NC

Full-time

Hybrid

Mid, Senior Level

5+ years exp

SMBC Group is a top-tier global financial group with a diverse range of financial services. As a Staff AI/GenAI Engineer in the Platform Engineering team, you will design, develop, and deploy AI platforms that drive business value, working closely with various stakeholders to ensure robust and scalable architecture.

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H1B Sponsor Likely

Responsibilities

Define AI Platform architecture: Design and architect a scalable, secure, and compliant AI platform utilizing Databricks and Azure Cloud Services as the foundational backbone

Develop platform infra and services: Develop infrastructure and REST/Websocket-based AI/LLM platform services for consumption by different downstream applications

Own ML/LLM ops: Apply standardized architecture patterns and MLOps/LLMOps practices for model lifecycle management, observability, and security

Data Engineering: Develop efficient and scalable data pipelines to support AI/ML data requirements

GenAI Solution Development: Build and maintain robust RAG (Retrieval-Augmented Generation) and Agentic orchestration layers using tools like LangGraph and others to enable complex, multi-step GenAI workflows

Evaluate Emerging Technology: Proactively identify and evaluate emerging Generative AI technologies and integrate those that drive demonstrable business value

Technical Mentorship: Mentor and educate broader engineering teams on state-of-the-art Generative AI techniques and platform capabilities

Qualification

GenAI model developmentMLOps/LLMOps toolsPython programmingDatabricksAzure Cloud ServicesRESTful servicesTechnical mentorshipCollaboration skillsCommunication skills

Required

Bachelor's degree in Computer Science, Machine Learning, Data Science, or related field

5+ years of hands-on experience in developing, deploying, and maintaining GenAI or advanced ML models in production environments

3+ years of experience in Python and GenAI frameworks/tools e.g. Databricks Vector Search, Azure AI Search, Azure AI document intelligence, LangGraph, haystack, Llama Index etc

Advanced knowledge of prompt engineering, model fine-tuning, embedding models, and effective RAG implementation methodologies, including vector databases, chunking strategies, GraphRAG etc

Deep familiarity with MLOps/LLMOps tools (e.g. MLflow), data platforms (e.g. Databricks) and cloud platforms

Demonstrated experience developing and deploying RESTful services, containerization, and automated CI/CD systems

Working knowledge of ML libraries e.g. PyTorch, TensorFlow, Hugging Face Transformers

Excellent communication and collaboration skills; proven ability to influence and partner with technical and non-technical stakeholders

Company

SMBC Group

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SMBC Group is a top-tier global financial group.

Founded in 1590

New York, New York, USA

10001+ employees

https://www.smbcgroup.com/americas

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