Hiring: AI Engineer III Company: American Express Location: New York, NY Job Posted Time: 2026-09-16 18:15:55 Employment Type: Internship Target Skills & Keywords : AWS, Event-Driven, GCP, Kafka, Kubernetes, LLM, Python, RAG, REST, TypeScript, gRPC About the job Experience: •4+ years of professional software engineering experience. Required Skills: •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. •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. •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. •Contribute to shared AI infrastructure such as LLM services, orchestration components, and evaluation or monitoring tooling. •Participate in operating AI systems in production, including monitoring, debugging, and improving reliability and performance. 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!