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Headquartered in Boston, with locations in Singapore, London, and Sydney, we manage over $232 billion on behalf of leading institutions worldwide-including pension funds, endowments, foundations, and sovereign wealth funds. We harness advanced technology, rich datasets, and multidisciplinary expertise to help clients navigate complex markets and uncover insights that may be overlooked by traditional approaches.\nWhat sets Acadian apart is our people. We foster a collaborative, intellectually curious environment where ideas are tested, diverse perspectives are welcomed, and innovation thrives. We’re united by a shared purpose: delivering effective client outcomes and supporting one another in work that’s both challenging and rewarding. We offer a flexible hybrid work environment, strong benefits, and a casual but focused office culture-all designed to support the meaningful, collaborative work that defines Acadian.\nPosition Overview:\nThe Senior AI Engineer is a senior technical leader responsible for defining, designing, and delivering enterprise-grade AI platforms and solutions across the firm. This role aligns diverse requirements and perspectives into coherent, scalable, and governable AI solutions. The Senior AI Engineer sets technical standards, drives architectural consistency, and owns a slice of the firm-wide AI modernization and adoption roadmap, ensuring AI capabilities mature from experimentation to durable, production-grade systems.\nAcadian supports a hybrid work environment; employees are on-site in the Boston office 3 days a week.\nWhat You’ll Do:\nOwns a slice of the firm’s AI architecture end-to-end, spanning agentic systems, software factories, knowledgebases, loops, custom harnesses, context and memory engineering, A2A, agentic deep research, retrieval-augmented generation (RAG), LLM training, inference optimization, model integration, evaluations (evals).\nPartner closely with investment, engineering, sales, data, risk, security, and business teams to align diverse requirements into scalable and governable AI solutions.\nLead the design and delivery of production-grade AI systems, working alongside teams.\nEnable and accelerate AI development within investment and research teams while ensuring alignment with enterprise architecture, controls, and platforms.\nEnsure AI solutions integrate cleanly with existing platforms, data sources, and workflows across the firm.\nEmbed governance, security, and risk controls into AI systems in collaboration with Risk, Compliance, and Security.\nEstablish approaches for model evaluation, monitoring, and lifecycle management appropriate for a regulated environment.\nContinuously reassess and evolve AI architecture in response to new capabilities, risks, and firm priorities.\nInfluence and help shape shared AI platforms, tooling, and reusable components.\nDrive adoption by ensuring AI solutions deliver measurable value to teams.\nServe as a technical mentor, leading through technical credibility, collaboration, and influence rather than formal authority.\nWe’re Looking for Teammates With:\nBachelor’s degree in computer science, engineering, physics, robotics, mathematics, or a related technical field, or equivalent practical experience.\n5+ years of relevant experience with significant experience in senior or principal-level software engineering roles, with demonstrated ownership of complex, production systems.\nAdvanced degree or formal training in GenAI and Agents, machine learning, data science, or a related field is a plus, but not required.\nProven experience designing, building, and operating enterprise-grade AI or machine learning systems beyond prototypes and proofs of concept.\nDeep understanding of modern AI architectures, including agentic systems, retrieval-augmented generation (RAG), MCP, and LLMs.\nAbility to reason clearly about tradeoffs involving risk, cost, scalability, and time-to-value, and to communicate those decisions effectively to technical and non-technical stakeholders.\nStrong software engineering fundamentals, including API design, distributed systems, and cloud-native architectures.\nExperience operationalizing AI systems, including testing, monitoring, evaluation, and lifecycle management.\nDemonstrated ability to work effectively across highly skilled, opinionated teams, synthesizing diverse perspectives into aligned technical outcomes.\nDemonstrated ability to lead through influence, collaboration, and technical credibility rather than formal authority.\nHands-on experience with cloud platforms and modern AI tooling ecosystems. Amazon Bedrock is preferred.\nExperience partnering with Risk, Compliance, Security, or Legal teams to embed controls into technical systems.\nFamiliarity with quantitative, research-driven, or investment-oriented AI use cases.\nExperience working in regulated or highly risk-aware environments, such as financial services or asset management.\nBroad cross systems knowledge across AWS, K8s, software architecture, day 2 operations.\nThe base salary range for this role is $175,000 - $225,000 per year. Actual compensation will be determined based on a candidate’s skills, qualifications, and relevant experience. In addition to base pay, this position may be eligible for discretionary incentive compensation and includes participation in Acadian’s comprehensive benefits program, which includes health, retirement, and wellness offerings.\nTo apply for this position or view Acadian’s open roles, please visit the Careers section of our website at: https://www.acadian-asset.com/careers/open-positions. We will contact only selected candidates. If you are a candidate with a disability, or are assisting a candidate with a disability, and require an accommodation to apply for one of our jobs, please email us at .\nAcadian Asset Management LLC is committed to providing equal employment opportunity to all employees and applicants. 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