Description
iCapital is seeking an Assistant Vice President Artificial Intelligence Engineer to design, develop, and deliver production-grade AI systems that drive measurable business outcomes across the firm.
Responsibilities:
- Design and deliver production AI systems, including document intelligence (IDP), intelligent knowledge systems, agentic orchestration, conversational AI, and generative AI applications.
- Own AI projects end-to-end, from problem scoping and stakeholder alignment through solution design, implementation, deployment, monitoring, and continuous improvement.
- Contribute to technical design and architectural decisions for the team, including API design, system decomposition, evaluation strategy, and infrastructure patterns.
- Develop and apply robust evaluation frameworks for AI systems, defining statistically sound, problem-specific metrics, curating benchmark datasets, and enforcing strict versioning.
- Partner directly with cross-functional stakeholders, including the Product, Operations, Legal, and Business teams.
- Support and mentor junior engineers on the team through code review, design review, pair problem-solving, and knowledge sharing.
- Identify systemic problems and propose solutions, proactively improving team processes, tooling, and infrastructure.
Qualifications:
- 5+ years of experience developing and deploying production AI/ML systems.
- Strong proficiency in Python and software engineering best practices.
- Deep expertise building production AI solutions, including LLM applications, AI agents, retrieval-augmented generation (RAG), conversational AI, document intelligence, and agentic workflows.
- Experience designing, deploying, and operating end-to-end machine learning pipelines.
- Strong foundation in statistics, experimentation, data quality, and AI system evaluation.
- Excellent written and verbal communication skills.
Benefits:
- The base salary range for this role is $120,000 to $170,000.
- iCapital offers a compensation package which includes salary, equity for all full-time employees, and an annual performance bonus.
- Employees also receive a comprehensive benefits package that includes an employer matched retirement plan, generously subsidized healthcare with 100% employer paid dental, vision, telemedicine, and virtual mental health counseling, parental leave, and unlimited paid time off (PTO).