# AI Engineer - Vice President

**Company**: iCapital
**Location**: New York, New York
**Work arrangement**: hybrid
**Experience**: senior
**Job type**: full-time
**Salary**: $170,000 to $210,000
**Category**: Engineering
**Industry**: Finance

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## Description

iCapital is seeking a Vice President Artificial Intelligence Engineer to lead the design, development, and delivery of production-grade AI systems that drive measurable business outcomes across the firm.

Responsibilities:

- Lead the architecture and delivery of 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.

- Drive technical design and architectural decisions for the team, including API design, system decomposition, evaluation strategy, and infrastructure patterns.

- Architect and champion 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 to identify AI opportunities, translate requirements into technical plans, and communicate tradeoffs, risks, and recommendations clearly.

- Mentor and develop 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:

- 7+ 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 $170,000 to $210,000.

- 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).

## Skills

### Required
- Python
- software engineering
- AI/ML systems
- cloud-native solutions
- AWS
- LLM applications
- conversational AI
- document intelligence
- agentic workflows
- machine learning pipelines
- statistics
- experimentation
- data quality
- AI system evaluation

### Nice to have
- financial services
- FinTech
- open-source projects
- technical publications
- conference presentations
- patents

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