AVP, Principal AI Engineer

LPL Financial

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Fort Mill, SCCharlotte, NCAustin, TX
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16 days ago
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About LPL Financial

LPL Financial is the largest independent broker-dealer in the United States, providing brokerage and investment advisory services to independent financial advisors and financial institutions. Industry: Financial Services & Wealth Management

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TL;DR · AVP, Principal AI Engineer

AVP, Principal AI Engineer joins the engineering team as a hands-on individual contributor to design, build, and deploy production-grade AI and machine learning solutions. This role involves architecting AI-powered applications, developing agentic workflows, and building RAG architectures to improve advisor productivity and operational efficiency. The engineer will lead the end-to-end software engineering lifecycle, establishing best practices for model evaluation, observability, and responsible AI. Key technologies include Python, TensorFlow, PyTorch, scikit-learn, LangChain, and AWS services like Bedrock and SageMaker. The position requires deep expertise in LLMs, NLP, and microservices within a highly regulated financial services environment. The successful candidate will translate complex business requirements into scalable technical solutions while providing architectural guidance and mentoring to help shape the enterprise AI platform strategy.

What does a AI Engineer earn?

Median $211200 from 149 postings across 42 companies.

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What you'll do

  • Design, develop, and deploy production-grade AI/ML solutions and applications using LLMs, generative AI, and RAG architectures.
  • Lead the end-to-end software engineering lifecycle including design, testing, deployment, monitoring, and optimization of AI solutions.
  • Build and maintain cloud-native AI solutions utilizing AWS services such as Bedrock and related ML technologies.
  • Design and implement APIs, microservices, and platform services to enable scalable AI capabilities across the enterprise.
  • Establish engineering best practices for AI development, model evaluation, observability, security, and responsible AI.
  • Translate business requirements from various departments into scalable technical solutions and high-value AI use cases.
  • Evaluate emerging AI technologies and frameworks to recommend adoption opportunities within the organization.
  • Provide technical leadership, architectural guidance, and mentoring to engineers and the future AI engineering team.

What we're looking for

  • Minimum of 8 years of software engineering, AI/ML engineering, or machine learning development experience.
  • Strong hands-on programming expertise in Python and frameworks like TensorFlow, PyTorch, scikit-learn, or LangChain.
  • Experience designing and deploying Generative AI solutions, including LLMs, NLP, RAG architectures, and AI agents.
  • Strong cloud engineering experience with AWS, Azure, or GCP for scalable AI/ML workloads.
  • Experience working in highly regulated industries such as Financial Services, Banking, Healthcare, or Insurance.
  • Deep understanding of machine learning concepts including deep learning, recommendation systems, and predictive analytics.
  • Strong software engineering fundamentals including APIs, microservices, scalable architectures, testing, and CI/CD practices.
  • Bachelor's or Master's degree in Computer Science, Engineering, Data Science, Statistics, or a related quantitative field (Ph.D. preferred).

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