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About The OCC
The OCC (Options Clearing Corporation) is the world''s largest equity derivatives clearing organization, acting as issuer and guarantor for options and futures contracts to promote stability and market integrity. Industry: Financial Clearing & Derivatives
The OCC currently has
39 open roles
on FindRole.
Listed pay typically runs
$123,100–$181,050
across 28 roles with salary data.
The Associate Principal, Artificial Intelligence Engineering joins the AI Research & Engineering team to build the company's first generation of agentic AI capabilities. This role involves owning the end-to-end design, architecture, and production deployment of agentic AI systems within a regulated environment. Key responsibilities include architecting agent orchestration patterns, building evaluation pipelines, and implementing technical safeguards against hallucinations and prompt injections. The candidate will manage AI infrastructure on AWS, develop audit logging, and mentor junior engineers. Required technical skills include Python, SQL, distributed systems, and API design, alongside experience building LLM-powered applications. Preferred expertise includes Anthropic's Claude, Docker, Kubernetes, Terraform, and Model Context Protocol integrations. The work focuses on solving complex AI infrastructure and application challenges while ensuring traceability and reliability in a highly regulated financial services context.
LLM Orchestration
RAG
Python
C#
Azure
Microservices
CI/CD
Infrastructure as Code
Containers
APIs
Distributed Systems
Prompt Engineering
Observability
Machine Learning
Agentic AI
C++
Java
JavaScript
C
System Design
Remote (Falls Church, VA)40 days ago
$140,250–$189,750
Generative AI
Large Language Models
LLM) Fine-Tuning
Agentic AI
RAG
Machine Learning
Data Science
Data Engineering
AI Security
MCP
Data Integration
Data Migration
Cloud Services
AI-Assisted Programming