{"id":1158442,"url":"https://alion.io/job/sei-data-scientist-ii","title":"Data Scientist II","company":{"id":704150,"name":"SEI","domain":"seic.com","url":"https://alion.io/company/sei-4","size_band":"1001-5000","is_staffing_agency":false,"is_intermediary":false,"ats_vendor":"Workday","truth_index":{"grade":"B","score":76,"open_postings":24,"ghost_share":0,"stale_share":0.958,"repost_share":0,"time_to_fill_p50_days":null,"computed_at":"2026-09-23T05:45:00Z"}},"role":"Data Science","role_family":"Data Science","seniority":"middle","employment_type":"full_time","work_mode":"on_site","remote_scope":null,"hiring_geo_confidence":"structured","locations":["United States"],"countries":["US"],"hiring_countries":[],"hiring_countries_total":0,"salary":null,"salary_estimate":{"min_usd":102000,"max_usd":192000,"period":"year","method":"role_seniority_country_remote_cell","sample_n":221},"experience_years_min":3,"visa_sponsorship":false,"relocation_package":false,"has_equity":false,"technologies":[{"name":"AI Agents","optional":false},{"name":"Anthropic","optional":false},{"name":"AutoGen","optional":false},{"name":"AWS","optional":false},{"name":"Azure","optional":false},{"name":"CI/CD","optional":false},{"name":"CrewAI","optional":false},{"name":"Knowledge Graph","optional":false},{"name":"LangChain","optional":false},{"name":"LangGraph","optional":false},{"name":"LlamaIndex","optional":false},{"name":"LLM","optional":false},{"name":"Multimodal AI","optional":false},{"name":"OpenAI","optional":false},{"name":"Prompt Engineering","optional":false},{"name":"Python","optional":false},{"name":"RAG","optional":false},{"name":"Semantic Kernel","optional":false},{"name":"Semantic Search","optional":false},{"name":"Semantic Search","optional":false}],"status":"live","first_seen_at":"2026-09-23T22:35:15Z","employer_posted_date":"2026-09-23","last_verified_at":"2026-09-24T01:54:56Z","board_verified":true,"closed_at":null,"days_open":0,"trust":{"level":"ok","repost_count":null,"flags":[],"days_open":0},"description":"SEI is seeking a Software Engineer, Data Scientist to join our Enterprise Artificial Intelligence team. This role is designed for a highly technical builder who lives at the forefront of AI innovation and is passionate about transforming emerging technologies into enterprise-scale solutions.\nThe ideal candidate has expertisein Python, Generative AI, Retrieval-Augmented Generation (RAG), AI agents, LLM orchestration, and modern AI engineering practices. Theypossessthe rare combination of technical depth, creativity, business acumen, and execution excellencerequiredto rapidly design, build, and deliver AI solutions that drive measurable business impact.\nThis individual will serve as both a thought leader and technical catalyst, continuously evaluating emerging AI technologies while helping SEI translate innovation into secure, scalable, and widely adopted solutions.\nWhat You Will Do\nDesign, architect, and develop enterprise-grade AI applicationsleveragingLarge Language Models (LLMs), agentic frameworks, RAG architectures, and emerging AI technologies.\n\nBuild production-ready AI solutions from concept to deployment, driving adoption across business and technology teams.\n\nDevelop intelligent assistants, copilots, autonomous agents, workflow automations, and knowledge-based AI systems.\n\nDesign andoptimizeRAG pipelines, vector databases, knowledge graphs, semantic search solutions, and document intelligence systems.\n\nRapidly prototype innovative AI capabilities and convert promising concepts into scalable enterprise platforms.\n\nEvaluate emerging AI tools, models, frameworks, and open-source technologies toidentifyopportunities that accelerate SEI's AI strategy.\n\nBuild robust APIs, integrations, orchestration layers, and backend services that enable AI capabilities across the enterprise.\n\nImplement AI governance, security, observability, testing, and monitoring practices throughout the solution lifecycle.\n\nContribute to AI platform strategy, reusable accelerators, development frameworks, and enterprise AI architecture.\n\nStay continuously current on advancements in Generative AI, agentic systems, reasoning models, multimodal AI, open-source ecosystems, and enterprise AI engineering.\n\nWhat We NeedFromYou\nBachelor's degree in Computer Science, Engineering, Data Science, or equivalent practical experience.\n\nAt least 3 years of Python development skills with a strong understanding of software engineering principles and enterprise architecture.\n\nHands-on experience building and deploying LLM-powered applications in production environments.\n\nDeep knowledge of:\nRetrieval-Augmented Generation (RAG)\nVector databases\n\nEmbedding models\n\nSemantic search architectures\n\nAgentic AI frameworks\n\nPrompt engineering\n\nModel evaluation techniques\n\nExperience with modern AI frameworks and tooling such as:\nLangChain\n\nLangGraph\n\nSemantic Kernel\n\nLlamaIndex\n\nAutoGen\n\nCrewAI\n\nOpenAI\n\nAzure AI Foundry\n\nAnthropic\n\nOpen-source LLM platforms\n\nStrong software engineering background with experience in:\nAPI development\n\nMicroservices\n\nCloud-native architectures\n\nCI/CD pipelines\n\nDevOps practices\n\nExperience with Azure, AWS cloud platforms.\n\nStrong understanding of AI governance, security, responsible AI, and enterprise deployment considerations.\n\nProven ability to move rapidly from idea to production while balancing innovation, scalability, and risk.\n\nDemonstrated success delivering solutions that achieve meaningful business adoption and measurable outcomes.\n\nWhat we would like from you:\nObsessive curiosity about AI and emerging technologies.\n\nA builder mentality with a passion for creating solutions rather than researching concepts.\n\nAbility to quickly learn, evaluate, and operationalizenew technologies.\n\nCreative, outside-the-box thinker who challenges conventional approaches.\n\nProven ability to influence technical direction and drive innovation across teams.\n\nStrong communicationskills with the ability to explain complex AI concepts to both technical and executive audiences.\n\nSEI’s competitive advantage:\nTo help you stay energized, engaged and inspired, we offer a wide range of benefits including comprehensive care for your physical and mental well-being, a strong retirement plan, tuition reimbursement, support for working parents and flexible Paid Time Off (PTO) so you can relax, recharge and be there for the people you care about.\nBenefits include healthcare (medical, dental, vision, prescription, wellness, EAP, FSA), life and disability insurance (premiums paid for base coverage), 401(k) match, education assistance, commuter benefits, up to 11 paid holidays/year, 21 days PTO/year pro-rated for new hires which increases over time, paid parental leave, back-up childcare arrangements, paid volunteer days, a discounted stock purchase plan, investment options, access to thriving employee networks and more.\nWe are a technology and asset management company delivering on our promise of building brave futures (SM)-for our clients, our communities, and ourselves. Come build your brave future at SEI.\nThe position title reflected in this job description is aligned with SEI's current internal job architecture. As part of SEI's role and career framework, internal job titles may not directly correspond to external market titles and may differ from titles previously assigned during an employee's tenure or at the time of hire.\n SEI is an Equal Opportunity Employer and so much more…\nAfter over 50 years in business, SEI remains a leading global provider of investment processing, investment management, and investment operations solutions. Reflecting our experience within financial services and financial technology our offices encompass an open floor plan and numerous art installations designed to encourage innovation and creativity in our workforce. We recognize that our people are our most valuable asset and that a healthy, happy, and motivated workforce is key to our continued growth. At SEI, we’re (literally) invested in your success. We offer our employees paid parental leave, back-up childcare arrangements, paid volunteer days, education assistance and access to thriving employee networks.\nSEI is an equal opportunity employer and all qualified applicants will receive consideration for employment without regard to race, color, religion, sex, sexual orientation, gender identity, national origin, age, disability status, protected veteran status, or any other characteristic protected by law.\nAI Acceptable Use in the application and interview process:\nSEI acknowledges the growing integration of artificial intelligence (AI) tools into individuals’ personal and professional lives. If you intend to incorporate the use of any AI tools at any stage of the application and/or interview process, please ensure you have reviewed and adhere to our AI use guidelines.","description_format":"text","description_chars":6830,"description_truncated":false,"requirements":{"experience_years_min":3,"management_years_min":null,"team_size_min":null,"manages_managers":false,"education":{"level":"bachelor","optional":false},"security_clearance":false,"languages":[]},"benefits":["Education assistance","Parental leave","Retirement plans"],"hiring_locations":[],"hiring_excludes":[],"relocation_offered":false,"industries":["Wealth Management","Asset Management"],"lifecycle":[{"event":"open","at":"2026-09-23T22:35:15Z"}],"liveness":{"score":86,"band":"hot","label":"Hiring now","p_open":1,"p_active":0.86,"p_room":1,"age_days":0,"expected_fill_days":27,"reasons":["conf:0","win:early","comp:brand"],"computed_at":"2026-09-24T01:59:19Z"},"pay":null,"html_url":"https://alion.io/job/sei-data-scientist-ii","json_url":"https://alion.io/job/sei-data-scientist-ii.json","meta":{"generated_at":"2026-09-24T01:59:19Z","cache_seconds":300,"methodology":"https://alion.io/methodology","terms":"https://alion.io/terms","contact":"https://alion.io/contact","api":"https://alion.io/developers"}}