Hiring: AI Engineer - Enterprise Architecture Company: American Express Location: Phoenix, AZ Job Posted Time: 2026-09-16 18:13:12 Employment Type: Internship / Hybrid Target Skills & Keywords : AWS, Event-Driven, GCP, Kafka, Kubernetes, LLM, Python, RAG, REST, Systems Design, TypeScript, gRPC About the job Experience: •2+ years of professional software engineering experience. Required Skills: •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. •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 •As an AI Engineer – 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. •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. •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. •Contribute to the design and implementation of LLM-powered and agentic product features. •Build and extend agentic AI workflows that reason over context, call tools, and perform actions under guidance from senior engineers. •Help implement and maintain retrieval-augmented generation (RAG) pipelines over financial data, with an emphasis on correctness and safety. Qualifications: •Some hands-on experience building or contributing to AI-powered features, LLM-based applications, or applied ML systems (professional or project-based). •Solid engineering fundamentals in at least one backend language (Python, Go, or TypeScript). •Operational familiarity with APIs, basic cloud concepts, and modern development practices. •Interest in agentic AI systems, autonomy, and AI-assisted development workflows. •Willingness to learn, take feedback, and grow technical ownership over time. •Comfort working in collaborative, cross-functional teams. •A strong customer mindset and curiosity about real-world problem solving. •Exposure to LLM tooling, prompt engineering, RAG, or agent frameworks through work, coursework, or personal projects. •Internship or early-career experience in fintech or other regulated environments. •Contributions to open-source projects, hackathons, or side projects related to AI or developer tooling. Interested candidates, please apply directly through the job posting on company's career page or try via AI auto apply on this platform. Don't miss this opportunity to join a forward-thinking team!