Staff Applied AI Engineer

Fiserv

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On-site
Location
Sunnyvale, CA
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$160,000–$240,000 / yr
Posted
3 days ago
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About Fiserv

Fiserv is a global leader in financial services technology, providing core banking platforms, payment processing, digital banking, and merchant acquiring solutions to financial institutions and businesses. Industry: Financial Technology & Payments

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TL;DR · Staff Applied AI Engineer

As a Staff Applied AI Engineer, you will serve as a hands-on technical leader for the Clover Point of Sale platform. You will define the architecture for AI across inventory, menu, and ordering systems to modernize how merchants manage their businesses. Your daily responsibilities include designing tool layers for agents writing to inventory, building retrieval layers using RAG grounded in merchant data, engineering multimodal ingestion for documents and images, and establishing evaluation-driven development practices. The role requires expertise in Python, a JVM language like Java or Kotlin, MySQL, MongoDB, and vector databases. You will also work with frameworks such as Spring Boot, LangChain, or LlamaIndex while utilizing models like Gemini, Claude, or GPT. This position focuses on solving complex problems involving agentic coding, multi-agent orchestration, and high-stakes data integrity within the retail and restaurant domains.

What you'll do

  • Define the technical architecture, design, and deployment for AI systems across inventory, menu, and ordering platforms.
  • Build retrieval layers (RAG) to ground agent outputs in real-time merchant data.
  • Develop tool layers for agents to perform actions like writing to inventory with proper permissions and rollbacks.
  • Engineer multimodal ingestion pipelines to convert photos, PDFs, and spreadsheets into canonical data.
  • Create decision layers that translate model outputs into actionable recommendations for merchants.
  • Establish evaluation frameworks and behavioral contracts to validate AI performance before deployment.
  • Manage the operation of shipped systems, including monitoring costs, latency, and live quality.
  • Mentor engineers and establish technical patterns and guardrails for the broader engineering team.

What we're looking for

  • Bachelor's degree in computer science, engineering, math, physics, or equivalent practical experience.
  • Master's degree in Computer Science or a related discipline (preferred).
  • Experience in software development and leading complex production systems.
  • Proficiency in Python, a JVM language (Java, Kotlin, Scala), MySQL, MongoDB, and vector databases.
  • Experience with LLM systems that write to a system of record for real users and evaluation-driven development.
  • Expertise in AI systems operations including tracing, monitoring, latency/cost budgets, and risk judgment regarding security and privacy.
  • Familiarity with Gemini, Vertex AI, Claude, GPT, Llama, LangChain, or LlamaIndex (preferred).
  • Experience with multi-agent orchestration, RAG over structured records, and document extraction from images/PDFs (preferred).

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