Vice President, AI / Machine Learning Software Engineer

BNY Mellon

$120K — $190K *
Information Technology
5 - 7 years of experience
Job Overview by Ladders

Qualifications

  • Advanced degree in STEM engineering or equivalent work experience; preference for candidates with 7-9 years of experience in relevant fields.
  • Strong background in building and operating production ML or GenAI systems within enterprise environments.
  • Hands-on expertise with LLM orchestration frameworks like LangChain and LlamaIndex.
  • Experience with model registries and experiment tracking tools, such as MLflow.
  • Proficient in Kubernetes-based deployments and cloud-native architectures.
  • Knowledge of feature stores, data pipelines, and lifecycle management for retrieval systems.
  • Experience implementing telemetry, logging, metrics, and distributed tracing for ML/AI workloads.
  • Familiarity with CI/CD practices specific to ML, GenAI, and data-driven systems.

Responsibilities

  • Design and build production-ready RAG pipelines with comprehensive guardrails, tracing, and observability.
  • Implement evaluation frameworks for prompts, models, and datasets, focusing on quality, safety, and performance metrics.
  • Manage the end-to-end lifecycle of GenAI systems, including prompt and model versioning.
  • Establish CI/CD pipelines for safe and auditable releases of models and data.
  • Monitor cost and performance metrics, optimizing for inference and spending.
  • Enforce safety mechanisms such as content filtering and abuse detection.
  • Define incident management workflows to handle alerts, triage, and post-incident analysis.
  • Collaborate with product and governance teams to ensure compliance with security and reliability standards.

Benefits

  • Highly competitive compensation and benefits packages.
  • Access to flexible global resources and tools for personal and professional growth.
  • Focus on health and wellbeing with comprehensive support programs.
  • Generous paid leave policies, including volunteer time off.
  • Cultural emphasis on excellence and a pay-for-performance philosophy.
Full Job Description
Job Description

Role Overview

We are seeking a senior-level engineer to design, build, and operate production-grade GenAI and Retrieval-Augmented Generation (RAG) platforms at scale. This role focuses on industrializing LLM-based systems with strong guardrails, observability, evaluation frameworks, and operational rigor, ensuring reliability, safety, and cost efficiency across the full AI lifecycle. This role is located in Jersey City, NJ.

Key Responsibilities
  • Design and build production-ready RAG pipelines, including retrieval, ranking, prompt orchestration, and response generation, with comprehensive guardrails, tracing, and observability.
  • Implement offline and online evaluation frameworks for prompts, models, and datasets, including quality, safety, latency, and cost metrics.
  • Own end-to-end lifecycle management for GenAI systems, covering prompt versions, model versions, datasets, and configurations.
  • Establish and maintain CI/CD pipelines for prompts, models, and data, enabling safe, repeatable, and auditable releases.
  • Implement cost and performance monitoring, including token usage, inference latency, throughput, and spend optimization.
  • Build and enforce safety mechanisms, such as content filtering, policy enforcement, red-teaming feedback loops, and abuse detection.
  • Define and operationalize incident management workflows, including alerting, triage, rollback mechanisms, and post-incident analysis.
  • Partner closely with product, platform, and governance teams to ensure GenAI solutions meet enterprise reliability, security, and compliance standards.
  • Mentor engineers and influence best practices for building scalable, trustworthy AI systems.


What Success Looks Like
  • GenAI systems that are observable, measurable, and resilient, not "black boxes."
  • Safe and cost-efficient RAG pipelines running reliably in production.
  • Fast iteration cycles with strong controls, enabling teams to ship GenAI features with confidence.


Required Qualifications
  • Advanced degree in STEM engineering degree, or equivalent work experience with experience preferred in related fields. 7-9 years of related experience required; experience in the securities or financial services industry is a plus
  • Strong experience building and operating production ML or GenAI systems in enterprise environments.
  • Deep hands-on expertise with LLM orchestration frameworks, such as LangChain and/or LlamaIndex.
  • Experience with model registries and experiment tracking, such as MLflow or equivalent.
  • Solid understanding of Kubernetes-based deployments and cloud-native architectures.
  • Familiarity with feature stores, data pipelines, and retriever/index lifecycle management.
  • Proven experience implementing telemetry, logging, metrics, and distributed tracing for ML/AI workloads.
  • Strong knowledge of CI/CD practices for ML, GenAI, and data-driven systems.


Preferred Qualifications
  • Experience operating LLM systems at scale, including multi-model or multi-provider strategies.
  • Exposure to AI safety, governance, and compliance frameworks in regulated environments.
  • Background in SRE, platform engineering, or MLOps, with a reliability-first mindset.
  • Ability to translate ambiguous GenAI use cases into robust, production-grade architectures.


Our Benefits and Rewards:

BNY offers highly competitive compensation, benefits, and wellbeing programs rooted in a strong culture of excellence and our pay-for-performance philosophy. We provide access to flexible global resources and tools for your life's journey. Focus on your health, foster your personal resilience, and reach your financial goals as a valued member of our team, along with generous paid leaves, including paid volunteer time, that can support you and your family through moments that matter.

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