Brown Brothers Harriman

Senior AI Engineer

Brown Brothers Harriman$175K — $215K *
Finance & Insurance
5 - 7 years of experience
Job Overview by Ladders

Qualifications

  • 5+ years in software engineering; at least 1 year focused on GenAI/LLM applications in production
  • Hands-on experience with LLM APIs like Anthropic Claude or OpenAI
  • Experience shipping AI features to real users, not just prototypes
  • Proficient in Python and familiar with LLM-related technologies
  • Cloud experience with Azure or AWS

Responsibilities

  • Develop and enhance AI-powered product features for financial services
  • Build production-ready LLM pipelines with high observability
  • Continuously assess and improve AI output quality through automated frameworks
  • Create complex agentic workflows that ensure proper error handling
  • Collaborate with Backend Engineers to integrate AI capabilities into APIs

Benefits

  • Healthcare and income protection plans
  • Professional development opportunities
  • Paid time off and work-life balance initiatives
  • Profit-sharing and discretionary bonuses
  • Supportive programs for overall well-being
Full Job Description
About the Role

As an AI Engineer, you'll build the intelligence layer of the platform - the AI-powered features that allow financial services users to generate data transformations from natural language, get intelligent integration suggestions, detect data quality issues, and refine outputs based on feedback. This is where the product stops feeling like a tool and starts feeling genuinely new.

This is a hands-on production role. You'll build and iterate on LLM pipelines, RAG systems, and agentic workflows using Agno; optimize AI systems for accuracy, latency, and cost in a context where correctness matters; and collaborate closely with Backend Engineers to ensure AI capabilities are reliably surfaced through the platform. You'll work under the direction of the Head of AI Engineering and have real ownership over the features you build.

Responsibilities

AI Feature Development

  • Build and iterate on AI-powered product features - transformation generation from natural language, integration configuration suggestions, data quality detection, and automated validation
  • Implement LLM pipelines that are robust, observable, and production-ready - not proof-of-concepts

LLM Pipeline Engineering

  • Build and optimize LLM pipelines including prompt engineering, context management, and RAG systems tailored to financial services data schemas
  • Evaluate and improve AI output quality continuously - build evaluation datasets and automated scoring frameworks
  • Optimize for accuracy, latency, and cost across different usage patterns

Agentic Workflows

  • Implement multi-step agentic workflows using Agno,
  • Build workflows that handle complex, multi-turn AI interactions cleanly - with proper error handling, retry logic, and human escalation paths

Platform Collaboration

  • Work closely with Backend Engineers to integrate AI capabilities into the platform's API and workflow layer
  • Build the service interfaces that connect AI outputs to platform execution cleanly
  • Participate in code reviews and maintain high standards for code quality and testability

Requirements

Experience

  • 5+ years software engineering; 1+ years focused on GenAI/LLM applications in production
  • Has shipped AI features to real users - not just prototypes or internal demos

Technical Skills

  • Hands-on with LLM APIs in production - Anthropic Claude and/or OpenAI
  • Built and shipped RAG systems to production (not just experimented with them)
  • Experience with agentic frameworks - Agno, LangChain, LlamaIndex, or comparable
  • Strong Python proficiency
  • Azure or AWS cloud experience
  • Vector databases - Pinecone, Weaviate, pgvector, or comparable
  • Active user of AI coding assistants in daily workflow

Nice to Have

  • Financial services or data domain background - understanding of financial data schemas, transformation logic, or data quality requirements adds significant context to the role
  • Experience with Temporal or workflow orchestration systems
  • Experience fine-tuning models or working with open-source LLMs for domain-specific tasks
  • Open-source AI contributions or technical writing
  • Data engineering familiarity - understanding ETL/ELT patterns helps in building more effective transformation generation features

Salary Range

MA: $175,000 - $215,000 base salary + annual target bonus

NY/ NJ: $175,000 - $215,000 base salary + annual target bonus

BBH and its affiliates' compensation program includes base salary, discretionary bonuses, and profit-sharing. The anticipated base salary range(s) shown above are only for the indicated location(s) and may differ in other locations due to cost of living and labor considerations. Base salaries may vary based on factors such as skill, experience and qualification for the role. BBH's total rewards package recognizes your contributions with more than just a paycheck—providing you with benefits that enhance your experience at BBH from long-term savings, healthcare, and income protection to professional development opportunities and time off, our programs support your overall well-being. 


 

We value diverse experiences. We value diverse experiences and transferrable skillsets. If your career hasn’t followed a traditional path, includes alternative experiences, or doesn’t meet every qualification or skill listed in the job description, please do go ahead and apply.

About Brown Brothers Harriman

Brown Brothers Harriman & Co. (BBH) is the oldest and largest private bank in the United States. Founded in 1818, BBH has been a leader in the financial industry for over 200 years. The company provides a wide range of financial services to individuals, families, and institutions, including wealth management, investment management, and private banking. BBH has offices in the United States, Europe, and Asia, and manages over $1.6 trillion in assets.
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