AI Solution Software Engineer

About the role

AI-Enabled Workflow Governance AI Solution Engineer

Who We Are Looking For

As part of State Street’s Enterprise Architecture organization, the Assistant Vice President, AI Governance Engineering reports directly to the Vice President of AI Governance Engineering. As an AI Solution Software Engineer, you will bridge the gap between advanced AI research and production-ready software. You will design, develop, and deploy AI-driven solutions that optimize technology governance reviews, assess the risk of solution designs being deployed in production, and ensure risk based decisions are appropriately auditable. This role requires a candidate who possesses strong software engineering fundamentals and a deep academic or practical foundation in Machine Learning (ML), Natural Language Processing (NLP), or Large Language Models (LLMs).

What You Will Be Responsible For

As an AI Solution Software Engineer, you will be responsible for:

Software Development: Write clean, scalable, and maintainable code to integrate AI/ML models into workflow automation that assist State Street application development teams in describing the architecture of their solutions and helping reviewers assess application design quality and risk.

AI Solution Engineering: Collaborate with our AI engineering center of excellence in leveraging our enterprise AI frameworks, including MCP and RAG enterprise solutions, to deliver and maintain working AI-driven workflows.

Workflow Integration Design: Integrate our non-deterministic AI solution capabilities with our Appian-based deterministic workflow orchestration system and implement effective application design guardrails.

Testing & Optimization: Conduct rigorous testing, performance tuning, and optimization of AI models for speed, accuracy, and cost-efficiency.

Collaboration & Innovation: Partner with product managers and engineering teams across State Street to understand business needs and propose innovative AI solutions.

What We Value

These skills will help you succeed in this role

Proficiency in Java and Python

Understanding of core AI architecture capabilities such as RAG and MCP

Strong communication and collaboration skills to work cross functionally to achieve consensus and common goals/objectives when individual business objectives may be in conflict

Ability to make clear and logical architectural recommendations

Ability to use data to make decisions

Collaborative partner able to influence and drive accountability across the organization

Outcome oriented and focused business and regulatory commitments

Education & Preferred Qualifications

Master’s degree (M.S.) in Computer Science (or a closely related technical field) with a focus on building AI-driven solutions.

3-5 years + of AI development experience

Programming Languages Proficiency in Java and Python

SDLC: Proficiency with modern coding practices and SDLC tools for software release

AI/ML Frameworks: Hands-on experience with frameworks such as PyTorch, TensorFlow, or Jext.

Modern AI Tech Stack: Exposure to LLMs, prompt engineering, retrieval-augmented generation (RAG), and vector databases (e.g., Pinecone, Chroma, Milvus).

Software Engineering: Solid understanding of data structures, algorithms, object-oriented programming (OOP), and software design patterns.

Cloud & DevOps: Familiarity with cloud platforms (AWS, Azure, or GCP) and containerization technologies like Docker and Kubernetes.

Data Systems: Experience writing complex SQL queries and working with relational or NoSQL databases.

Salary Range

$70,000 - $118,750 Annual

The range quoted above applies to the role in the primary location specified. If the candidate would ultimately work outside of the primary location above, the applicable range could differ.

Employees are eligible to participate in State Street’s comprehensive benefits program, which includes: our retirement savings plan (401K) with company match; insurance coverage including basic life, medical, dental, vision, long-term disability, and other optional additional coverages; paid-time off including vacation, sick leave, short term disability, and family care responsibilities; access to our Employee Assistance Program; incentive compensation including eligibility for annual performance-based awards (excluding certain sales roles subject to sales incentive plans); and, eligibility for certain tax advantaged savings plans.

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About State Street

Across the globe, institutional investors rely on us to help them manage risk, respond to challenges, and drive performance and profitability. We keep our clients at the heart of everything we do, and smart, engaged employees are essential to our continued success.

We are committed to fostering an environment where every employee feels valued and empowered to reach their full potential. As an essential partner in our shared success, you’ll benefit from inclusive development opportunities, flexible work-life support, paid volunteer days, and vibrant employee networks that keep you connected to what matters most. Join us in shaping the future.

As an Equal Opportunity Employer, we consider all qualified applicants for all positions without regard to race, creed, color, religion, national origin, ancestry, ethnicity, age, disability, genetic information, sex, sexual orientation, gender identity or expression, citizenship, marital status, domestic partnership or civil union status, familial status, military and veteran status, and other characteristics protected by applicable law.

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Job ID: R-797748