Principal, Artificial Intelligence Engineering

The OCC

Hybrid Actively hiring
Chicago, US Posted 58 days ago $159,200–$220,200 / year
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At a glance

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TL;DR

As a Principal AI Engineer at OCC, the world's largest equity derivatives clearing organization, you will serve as the technical anchor for their newly formed AI Research & Engineering team. This senior individual contributor role involves defining and executing OCC’s AI roadmap alongside the Executive Director of AI Engineering, architecting systems that integrate AI agents into enterprise workflows while ensuring compliance with stringent regulatory standards. You’ll leverage direct relationships with AWS and Anthropic to build production-ready AI applications using tools like Claude, maintaining high reliability and security. Responsibilities include mentoring junior engineers, evaluating emerging technologies, and navigating complex change management processes for deploying AI systems in a regulated environment. Required skills encompass expert Python proficiency, deep system design expertise, hands-on data engineering experience, and strong knowledge of AI risk vectors. Ideal candidates have financial market infrastructure background and production experience with frontier models like Claude and GPT.

Skills

Python AWS Docker Kubernetes CI/CD SQL LLM Anthropic Claude Terraform RAG API MCPservers GPT Gemini

What you'll do

  • Define and execute OCC's AI technical roadmap in collaboration with the Executive Director.
  • Lead the architecture, build, and operation of agentic AI systems connecting agents to enterprise workflows.
  • Evaluate and adopt new model capabilities from AWS and Anthropic for OCC’s use.
  • Build production AI applications on AWS using Claude models, ensuring reliability and security.
  • Mentor junior engineers through code reviews and best practice modeling without direct reports.
  • Establish AI safety standards and practices for sensitive financial data in a regulated environment.

What we're looking for

  • Expert-level Python and proficient SQL skills.
  • Deep system design expertise in distributed systems and microservices.
  • Hands-on experience with AWS, Docker, Kubernetes, and CI/CD pipelines.
  • Strong production AI/LLM experience or rapid ramp-up capability.
  • Extensive knowledge of AI risk vectors including hallucinations and bias.
  • Experience mentoring junior engineers and setting technical standards.
  • Background in financial market infrastructure or similar regulated industries.

Market check

Salary context

This $159,200–$220,200 range sits above 31% of similar postings on FindRole.

Peer median band

$173,500–$262,400

Median floor and ceiling across peers.

Typical midpoint (25–75%)

$171,000–$247,625

Middle half of comparable postings.

Based on 239 comparable postings.

* 240 is the maximum number of comparable postings sampled.

Employer

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 25 open roles on FindRole.

Listed pay typically runs $136,200–$217,100 across 25 roles with salary data.

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