Harnham · 1 week ago
VP AI Engineer
New York, United States
Full-time
Onsite
Senior Level
$220K/yr - $220K/yr
7+ years expHarnham is a global financial technology organisation operating at enterprise scale, combining advanced software engineering, data science, and applied AI to modernise large-scale production systems. They are seeking a VP AI Engineer to design and deploy AI systems, build LLM-powered solutions, and optimise performance in production environments.
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Hiring Manager
Guillian Eller
Responsibilities
Design and deploy agentic AI systems to automate and optimise large-scale production environments
Build LLM-powered solutions that diagnose issues, reason over complex systems, and take secure, auditable actions
Develop RAG pipelines and domain knowledge systems with strong data quality, feedback loops, and governance
Productionise LLMs: evaluation frameworks, prompt orchestration, response validation, self-correction loops
Integrate AI agents with observability, incident management, deployment, and runtime platforms
Implement safety, reliability, and compliance guardrails (policy enforcement, rollback strategies, circuit breakers)
Optimise performance, cost, and latency through prompt engineering, caching, routing, batching, and streaming
Qualification
Required
Bachelor's degree in a quantitative or computational field
7+ years of experience in applied ML, data science, or software engineering in production environments
Strong hands-on development in Python (or C++ / Java / Go), building large-scale applications
Practical expertise with LLMs: prompt engineering, fine-tuning/adaptation, RAG, tool-calling agents, vector search
Experience building secure, explainable, and reliable AI systems with strong governance and auditability
Comfortable collaborating across engineering, infrastructure, and operations teams with measurable business outcomes
Preferred
Master's / PhD
Benefits
Bonus
RSU
Company
Harnham
Harnham has actively chosen to focus on Data and Analytics.
201-500 employees
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Funding
Current Stage
Growth StageTotal Funding
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BGF Ventures
2022-05-01Seed
Leadership Team
David Farmer
Chief Executive Officer
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Stephen Lawrence
CFO
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