Senior Associate - Full-Stack AI Engineer

New York Life offers a hybrid role based in New York, NY (3 days per week in office) supporting the investment business through full-stack AI engineering. You will build and maintain applications and data flows between Trading, Accounting, and Datawarehouse platforms, applying Generative AI to improve productivity and streamline processes. The position supports scalable software delivery, modern AI capability evaluation, and collaboration with teams across product, architecture, engineering, and business.

What you’ll do

• Design, develop, and deliver scalable, high-performance applications aligned to business requirements with focus on reliability, maintainability, security, and user experience.
• Partner with product, architecture, engineering, and business stakeholders to translate requirements into enterprise-quality software solutions.
• Run proofs of concept (POCs) and create prototypes to evaluate new technologies, validate approaches, and resolve emerging business and technical needs.
• Drive reusable design by building components, frameworks, and modern capabilities that can be leveraged across applications and teams.
• Stay current with Generative AI, LLMs, cloud technologies, and software engineering practices, identifying opportunities to improve efficiency, automation, and business outcomes.
• Explain complex technical concepts clearly to technical and non-technical stakeholders and work effectively with global and distributed teams, including offshore partners.
• Balance independent execution with collaboration, demonstrating strong ownership, prioritization, and problem-solving in a fast-paced environment.
• Support the investment business by building and maintaining applications and designing, developing, and maintaining data flows between Trading, Accounting, and Datawarehouse platforms.

What you bring

• 8–12 years of hands-on software development experience.
• Solid understanding of the full Software Development Lifecycle (SDLC).
• Proficiency with Agile and Waterfall methodologies.
• Flexible mindset to work across different platforms and projects.
• Ability to think strategically about business needs and regulatory pressures.
• Up-to-date knowledge of architecture trends and systems best practices.
• Excellent written and verbal communication skills across all levels of the organization and teams.
• Working knowledge of GIT, Team Foundation Server (TFS), JIRA, and CI/CD pipelining.
• Programming and frameworks: Python, C#, .NET Core, Angular, TypeScript.
• AI/LLM engineering tools: AWS Bedrock, Claude, OpenAI, MCP.
• Cloud platform: AWS Services (or Azure/GCP).
• Data engineering: Oracle, SQL Server, PostgreSQL.
• Enterprise integrations and API development.
• DevOps and CI/CD automation: Jenkins and Harness CI/CD.

Benefits

• Leave programs
• Adoption assistance
• Student loan repayment programs
• Annual discretionary bonus eligibility

Compensation

Salary range: $124,000–$177,000 per year.

• Overtime eligible: Exempt
• Sales bonus eligible: No
• Actual base salary will be determined based on experience, skills, qualifications, and job location.
• Employees are eligible for an annual discretionary bonus.
• In addition to base salary, employees may be eligible to participate in an incentive program.

Job requisition ID: 95137