AI Engineer III - Agentic AI

<p><span style="font-family:Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;font-size:16px;">At American Express, our culture is built on a 175-year history of innovation, shared </span><a style="-webkit-text-stroke-width:0px;background-color:rgb(255, 255, 255);box-sizing:border-box;color:rgb(0, 111, 207);font-family:BentonSans, sans-serif;font-size:15px;font-style:normal;font-variant-caps:normal;font-variant-ligatures:normal;font-weight:400;letter-spacing:normal;orphans:2;text-align:start;text-indent:0px;text-transform:none;white-space:normal;widows:2;word-spacing:0px;" href=" target="_blank"><span style="font-family:Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;font-size:16px;"><span style="box-sizing:border-box;"><u>values</u></span></span></a><span style="background-color:rgb(255,255,255);font-family:Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;font-size:16px;"><span style="-webkit-text-stroke-width:0px;box-sizing:border-box;font-style:normal;font-variant-caps:normal;font-variant-ligatures:normal;font-weight:400;letter-spacing:normal;orphans:2;text-align:start;text-decoration-color:initial;text-decoration-style:initial;text-decoration-thickness:initial;text-indent:0px;text-transform:none;white-space:normal;widows:2;word-spacing:0px;"> </span></span><span style="font-family:Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;font-size:16px;">and Leadership Behaviors, and an unwavering commitment to back our customers, communities, and colleagues. From delivering differentiated products to providing world-class customer service, we operate with a strong risk mindset, ensuring we continue to uphold our brand promise of trust, security, and service.</span></p><p><span style="font-family:Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;font-size:16px;">As part of Team Amex, you'll experience this powerful backing with comprehensive support for your holistic well-being and many opportunities to learn new skills, develop as a leader, and grow your career. Here, your voice and ideas matter, your work makes an impact, and together, you will help us define the future of American Express.</span></p><p><span style="font-family:Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;font-size:16px;">Joining Amex Tech means discovering and shaping your contribution to something big. Here, you can work alongside talented tech teams and build a unique career with the Powerful Backing of American Express. With a range of opportunities to work with the latest technologies, and a commitment to back the broader engineering community through open source, our mission is to power your success. Because Amex Tech is powered by our technology, our culture, and our colleagues.</span></p><p><span style="font-family:Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;font-size:16px;">The Technology organization enables and accelerates the company’s growth strategies, delivering global capabilities and services in support of Amex’s customers and colleagues, while maintaining 24/7 servicing and availability to ensure an uninterrupted, high-quality customer experience. Technology provides the foundation for everything we do in the company while driving differentiation through building and leveraging innovative technology and data insights.</span></p><p><span style="font-family:Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;font-size:16px;">At American Express, AI is reshaping the future of commerce and redefining the experiences our commercial customers and card members expect. Within Amex Technology, we are building platforms, products, and governance that enable agentic AI systems to operate responsibly and at scale across the enterprise.</span></p><p><span style="font-family:Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;font-size:16px;">Our focus is on agentic AI development: designing intelligent, adaptive systems that can plan, reason, and act across complex workflows with appropriate levels of autonomy. These systems power autonomous workflows, decision support, and customer-facing experiences—while meeting the high standards for security, explainability, reliability, and compliance required in financial services.</span></p><p><span style="font-family:Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;font-size:16px;">We partner closely with product, design, and business teams to deliver agentic capabilities that reduce operational friction, improve decision-making, and transform how customers interact, transact, and grow.</span></p><p><span style="font-family:Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;font-size:16px;"><strong>The Role</strong></span></p><p><span style="font-family:Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;font-size:16px;">As an AI Engineer III – Agentic AI, you will be a hands-on builder contributing to the development of production agentic AI systems that operate on real financial data and serve real customers.</span><br><span style="font-family:Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;font-size:16px;">You will work alongside experienced engineers, product managers, and designers to design, build, and ship AI-powered features, while learning how to operate within a regulated, customer-facing environment. This role offers strong mentorship and opportunities to grow your technical depth in LLMs, agentic systems, and production AI engineering.</span></p><p><span style="font-family:Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;font-size:16px;">This is not a research-only role. You will write production code, contribute to system design discussions, and help operate what you build after launch, with support and guidance from more senior engineers.</span><br><span style="font-family:Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;font-size:16px;">   </span><br><span style="font-family:Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;font-size:16px;"><strong>What You’ll Do</strong></span></p><ul><li><span style="font-family:Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;font-size:16px;">Contribute to the design and implementation of LLM-powered and agentic product features.</span></li><li><span style="font-family:Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;font-size:16px;">Build and extend agentic AI workflows that reason over context, call tools, and perform actions under guidance from senior engineers.</span></li><li><span style="font-family:Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;font-size:16px;">Help implement and maintain retrieval-augmented generation (RAG) pipelines over financial data, with an emphasis on correctness and safety.</span></li><li><span style="font-family:Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;font-size:16px;">Contribute to shared AI infrastructure such as LLM services, orchestration components, and evaluation or monitoring tooling.</span></li><li><span style="font-family:Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;font-size:16px;">Participate in operating AI systems in production, including monitoring, debugging, and improving reliability and performance.</span></li><li><span style="font-family:Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;font-size:16px;">Collaborate closely with product and design partners, learning to translate customer needs into technical solutions.</span></li></ul><p><span style="font-family:Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;font-size:16px;"><strong>Technical Environment</strong></span></p><p><span style="font-family:Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;font-size:16px;">We don’t hire to a narrow checklist, but candidates should be excited to grow in a modern, enterprise-scale engineering environment with a focus on agentic AI.</span></p><p><span style="font-family:Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;font-size:16px;"><strong>Core engineering stack</strong></span></p><ul><li><span style="font-family:Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;font-size:16px;">Languages: Python, Go, TypeScript</span></li><li><span style="font-family:Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;font-size:16px;">Cloud and infrastructure: AWS and/or GCP, Kubernetes</span></li><li><span style="font-family:Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;font-size:16px;">APIs and services: REST, gRPC</span></li><li><span style="font-family:Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;font-size:16px;">Distributed systems: event-driven architectures, including Kafka</span></li></ul><p><span style="font-family:Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;font-size:16px;"><strong>Agentic AI and ML  </strong></span></p><ul><li><span style="font-family:Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;font-size:16px;">Commercial and open-source LLMs integrated into agentic workflows</span></li><li><span style="font-family:Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;font-size:16px;">Tooling for agent orchestration, retrieval-augmented generation, vector storage, and evaluation</span></li><li><span style="font-family:Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;font-size:16px;">Schema validation and structured data handling</span></li></ul><p><span style="font-family:Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;font-size:16px;"><strong>AI-assisted development</strong></span></p><ul><li><span style="font-family:Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;font-size:16px;">Use of AI-assisted and agentic development tools for design, implementation, testing, debugging, and refactoring</span></li><li><span style="font-family:Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;font-size:16px;">Learning how to apply these tools responsibly while maintaining production-quality standards</span></li><li><span style="font-family:Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;font-size:16px;">All systems are built to meet high standards for reliability, security, and auditability, reflecting the responsibility of deploying autonomous AI in a financial services environment.</span></li></ul><p><span style="font-family:Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;font-size:16px;"><strong>What We’re Looking For</strong></span></p><ul><li><span style="font-family:Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;font-size:16px;">4+ years of professional software engineering experience.</span></li><li><span style="font-family:Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;font-size:16px;">Some hands-on experience building or contributing to AI-powered features, LLM-based applications, or applied ML systems (professional or project-based).</span></li><li><span style="font-family:Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;font-size:16px;">Solid engineering fundamentals in at least one backend language (Python, Go, or TypeScript).</span></li><li><span style="font-family:Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;font-size:16px;">Familiarity with APIs, basic cloud concepts, and modern development practices.</span></li><li><span style="font-family:Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;font-size:16px;">Interest in agentic AI systems, autonomy, and AI-assisted development workflows.</span></li><li><span style="font-family:Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;font-size:16px;">Willingness to learn, take feedback, and grow technical ownership over time.</span></li><li><span style="font-family:Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;font-size:16px;">Comfort working in collaborative, cross-functional teams.</span></li><li><span style="font-family:Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;font-size:16px;">A strong customer mindset and curiosity about real-world problem solving.</span></li></ul><p><span style="font-family:Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;font-size:16px;"><strong>Preferred Qualifications</strong></span></p><ul><li><span style="font-family:Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;font-size:16px;">Exposure to LLM tooling, prompt engineering, RAG, or agent frameworks through work, coursework, or personal projects.</span></li><li><span style="font-family:Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;font-size:16px;">Internship or early-career experience in fintech or other regulated environments.</span></li><li><span style="font-family:Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;font-size:16px;">Contributions to open-source projects, hackathons, or side projects related to AI or developer tooling.</span></li></ul><p> </p> <p><span style="font-family:Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;font-size:16px;">Salary Range: $103,750.00 to $174,750.00 annually + bonus + benefits</span></p><p><span style="font-family:Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;font-size:16px;">The above represents the expected salary range for this job requisition. Ultimately, in determining your pay, we’ll consider your location, experience, and other job-related factors.</span></p><p><span style="font-family:Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;font-size:16px;">We back you with benefits that support your holistic well-being so you can be and deliver your best. This means caring for you and your loved ones' physical, financial, and mental health, as well as providing the flexibility you need to thrive personally and professionally:</span></p><ul><li><span style="font-family:Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;font-size:16px;">Competitive base salaries </span></li><li><span style="font-family:Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;font-size:16px;">Bonus incentives </span></li><li><span style="font-family:Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;font-size:16px;">6% Company Match on retirement savings plan </span></li><li><span style="font-family:Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;font-size:16px;">Free financial coaching and financial well-being support </span></li><li><span style="font-family:Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;font-size:16px;">Comprehensive medical, dental, vision, life insurance, and disability benefits </span></li><li><span style="font-family:Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;font-size:16px;">Flexible working model with hybrid, onsite or virtual arrangements depending on role and business need </span></li><li><span style="font-family:Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;font-size:16px;">20+ weeks paid parental leave for all parents, regardless of gender, offered for pregnancy, adoption or surrogacy </span></li><li><span style="font-family:Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;font-size:16px;">Free access to global on-site wellness centers staffed with nurses and doctors (depending on location) </span></li><li><span style="font-family:Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;font-size:16px;">Free and confidential counseling support through our Healthy Minds program </span></li><li><span style="font-family:Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;font-size:16px;">Career development and training opportunities</span></li></ul><p><span style="font-family:Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;font-size:16px;">For a full list of Team Amex benefits, visit our </span><a href=" target="_blank"><span style="font-family:Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;font-size:16px;"><u>Colleague Benefits Site</u></span></a><span style="font-family:Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;font-size:16px;">.</span></p><p><span style="font-family:Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;font-size:16px;">American Express is an equal opportunity employer and makes employment decisions without regard to race, color, religion, sex, sexual orientation, gender identity, national origin, veteran status, disability status, age, or any other status protected by law. American Express will consider for employment all qualified applicants, including those with arrest or conviction records, in accordance with the requirements of applicable state and local laws, including, but not limited to, the California Fair Chance Act, the Los Angeles County Fair Chance Ordinance for Employers, and the City of Los Angeles’ Fair Chance Initiative for Hiring Ordinance. For positions covered by federal and/or state banking regulations, American Express will comply with such regulations as it relates to the consideration of applicants with criminal convictions.</span></p><p><span style="font-family:Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;font-size:16px;">We back our colleagues with the support they need to thrive, professionally and personally. That's why we have Amex Flex, our enterprise working model that provides greater flexibility to colleagues while ensuring we preserve the important aspects of our unique in-person culture. Depending on role and business needs, colleagues will either work onsite, in a hybrid model (combination of in-office and virtual days) or fully virtually.</span></p><p><span style="font-family:Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;font-size:16px;">US Job Seekers - Click to view the “</span><a href=" target="_blank"><span style="color:#0563c1;font-family:Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;font-size:16px;"><u>Know Your Rights</u></span></a><span style="font-family:Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;font-size:16px;">” poster. 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