Staff AI Engineering – Enterprise Architecture

American Express

. Drive technical direction for agentic AI initiatives, influencing architecture patterns, autonomy boundaries, and system design .

Posted 10/9/2026full-timeUnited StatesLead💰 $144,250 - $256,250 per yearWebsite

Core Competencies

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Core Competencies

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Demonstrates expertise in designing and operating agentic AI systems, with a strong focus on architecture, autonomy, and system reliability. Proven ability to lead cross-functional teams and mentor engineers while delivering complex AI-driven solutions in production environments.

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Agentic AI System DesignLLM Infrastructure DevelopmentPython ProgrammingCloud Infrastructure (AWS/GCP)Technical Leadership

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Hard Skills

Software EngineeringBackend SystemsAPIsData PipelinesEvaluation and ObservabilityMemory StrategiesModel OptimizationFine-TuningEvent-Driven ArchitecturesStreaming Systems

Soft Skills

Influencing Technical DirectionMentoring EngineersNavigating Ambiguous Problem Spaces

Tools & Technologies

KubernetesKafkaLangChainLlamaIndexSemantic KernelCrewAIPyTorchHugging FaceTensorFlowREST/gRPC/tRPC

Certifications & Qualifications

Bachelor's Degree

Industry Keywords

Agentic AILLM-Powered SystemsFintechRegulated IndustriesOpen-Source AI Contributions

Tech Stack

Tools & technologies

AWSCloudGoogle Cloud PlatformGRPCKafkaKubernetesPythonPyTorchTensorflowTypeScriptGo

About the role

Key responsibilities & impact

Drive technical direction for agentic AI initiatives, influencing architecture patterns, autonomy boundaries, and system design
Design, build, and operate production-grade agentic AI systems used across multiple products
Own and evolve agent frameworks and orchestration layers
Develop planning, tool use, and memory strategies
Build retrieval and grounding (RAG) pipelines
Develop LLM infrastructure, inference, and model gateways
Build evaluation, observability, and safety tooling for autonomous systems
Lead technical design reviews and help teams navigate tradeoffs involving autonomy, safety, reliability, scalability, and cost
Partner across teams to deliver complex, cross-cutting agentic AI initiatives from concept to production
Evaluate emerging models, techniques, and agentic patterns and translate them into practical, enterprise-ready improvements
Mentor senior engineers and raise the technical bar for agentic AI development through example and influence
Use Python, Go, TypeScript, REST, gRPC, tRPC, AWS and/or GCP, Kubernetes, event-driven architectures, Kafka, commercial and open-source LLMs, LangChain, LlamaIndex, Semantic Kernel, CrewAI, PyTorch, Hugging Face, TensorFlow, Pydantic, and Zod

Requirements

What you’ll need

+10 years of software engineering experience, including deep, hands-on experience delivering agentic or LLM-powered systems to production
Proven ownership of complex, cross-cutting agentic systems spanning multiple teams or products
Strong engineering fundamentals across backend systems, APIs, data pipelines, and cloud infrastructure
Deep experience across the agentic AI stack, including planning, tool use, memory, and evaluation
Fluency with AI-assisted and agentic development workflows
Comfort operating in ambiguous problem spaces and translating them into shipped, reliable autonomous systems
Ability to influence technical direction and align teams without formal authority
Experience in workflow engines, async processing, queues, and streaming systems
Experience building agentic systems in fintech or other regulated industries (preferred)
Experience as a founding engineer or early technical leader in AI-driven products (preferred)
Demonstrated success delivering technically complex autonomous systems that customers actively rely on (preferred)
Meaningful contributions to open-source AI or agentic frameworks (preferred)
Familiarity with fine-tuning, model optimization and inference pipelines (a plus)
Bachelor's Degree
Depending on factors such as business unit requirements, the nature of the position, cost and applicable laws, American Express may provide visa sponsorship for certain positions.

Benefits

Comp & perks

Competitive base salaries
Bonus incentives
6% Company Match on retirement savings plan
Free financial coaching and financial well-being support
Comprehensive medical, dental, vision, life insurance, and disability benefits
Flexible working model with hybrid, onsite or virtual arrangements depending on role and business need
20+ weeks paid parental leave for all parents, regardless of gender, offered for pregnancy, adoption or surrogacy
Free access to global on-site wellness centers staffed with nurses and doctors (depending on location)
Free and confidential counseling support through our Healthy Minds program
Career development and training opportunities
Equity (if applicable)