Hiring: Sr AI Engineer II Company: American Express Location: Palo Alto, CA Job Posted Time: 2026-09-16 18:19:52 Target Skills & Keywords : AWS, Data Pipeline, Event-Driven, GCP, Kafka, Kubernetes, LLM, Python, RAG, REST, TypeScript, gRPC About the job Experience: •8+ years of software engineering experience, including meaningful production experience with LLMs or applied ML systems. 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. •As a Senior AI Engineer II – Agentic AI, you will be a core builder responsible for turning complex, ambiguous problems into production-grade agentic systems that operate on real financial data, serve real customers, and meet real regulatory requirements. •This is not a research-only role. We are looking for engineers who are comfortable operating with autonomy, exercising sound judgment, and pushing the technical envelope within the realities of a regulated financial environment. •Design, build, and ship LLM-powered and agentic product features that change how customers manage their finances. •Build agentic AI systems that reason over context, invoke tools, take real actions, and recover gracefully from failure. •Architect and implement production-grade RAG pipelines over sensitive financial data, with strict requirements for correctness, auditability, and safety. Qualifications: •A track record of shipping AI-powered or agentic systems that real users depend on. •Strong engineering fundamentals across backend systems, APIs, data pipelines, and cloud infrastructure. •Applied hands-on capability in modern LLM tooling and agentic patterns and architectures. •Fluency with AI-assisted and agentic development workflows. •Strong sense of ownership and sound technical judgment. •Comfort operating with ambiguity and turning it into shipped reliable product. •A strong product mindset and customer orientation. •Demonstrated ability to ship technically complex systems in regulated contexts that customers actively rely on. •Meaningful open-source contributions, particularly in AI or developer tooling. Compensation: •$123,000 - $215,250 / year 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!