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Progress starts with you.\nJob Description\nPosition Description:\nThe position is responsible for designing, building, and operationalizing production AI systems across the enterprise. This is a hands-on engineering role: you set architecture and engineering standards for agentic AI, generative applications, and ML platforms; you ship reference systems yourself; and you raise the quality bar for every team that builds on AI.\nThis role will be responsible for building the engineering system - platforms, patterns, evals, safety controls, reliability, cost, and developer experience - so business domains can adopt AI at speed with highest attention to security, compliance, and production discipline.\nWhat you will drive:\nEnterprise AI software architecture: reference designs for LLM applications, multi-agent workflows, RAG/grounding, tool-use, and hybrid classical ML + GenAI systems.\nProduction-grade AI platforms: shared services for model access, retrieval, evaluation, observability, prompt/version management, feature/store integration, and deployment.\nAgentic systems at scale: orchestration, memory, tool calling, human-in-the-loop controls, and safe autonomous workflows across business domains.\nQuality and safety system: evaluation harnesses, red-teaming, bias/privacy checks, policy enforcement, rollback, canary, and incident response for AI services.\nDeveloper experience for AI: SDKs, templates, CI/CD, golden paths, and inner-loop tooling so domain engineers can ship AI features without reinventing the stack.\nTechnical strategy and standards: model selection, cost/latency tradeoffs, data contracts, API design, and architecture review for high-risk AI systems.\nCross-domain enablement: partner with product, risk, compliance, legal, security, and domain engineering teams to take use cases from prototype to regulated production.\nKey Responsibilities:\nDefine the technical roadmap for AI software platforms and agentic capabilities, aligned to business outcomes.\nArchitect, lead the design and hands on build flagship agentic systems.\nEstablish LLMOps / AIOps practices: evals as tests, tracing, cost telemetry, drift detection, model and prompt versioning, and SLOs for AI services.\nSet coding, testing, and review standards for AI-adjacent software - Python and TypeScript services, APIs, data pipelines, and infrastructure as code.\nBuild and mentor a high-leverage bench of staff/principal engineers and AI tiger-team leads; operate as player-coach on the hardest problems.\nPartner with security, privacy, risk, and legal to implement responsible AI controls that work in a regulated payments/fintech environment.\nDrive build-vs-buy decisions across foundation models, vector stores, orchestration frameworks, and evaluation tooling.\nRepresent engineering in executive forums: translate technical risk, readiness, and investment into decisions leadership can act on.\nStay current with frontier models and research, but filter aggressively for production fitness, vendor lock-in, and total cost of ownership.\nVisa requires at least 3 days in office, expectations of these days will be confirmed by your Hiring Manager.\nQualifications\nEssential Qualifications:\n12+ years of relevant work experience with a Bachelor’s Degree or at least 9 years of work experience with an Advanced degree (e.g. Masters, MBA, JD, MD) or 6 years of work experience with a PhD, OR 15+ years of relevant work experience.\nPreferred Qualifications:\n15 or more years of experience with a Bachelor’s Degree or 12 years of experience with an Advanced Degree (e.g. Masters, MBA, JD, or MD), PhD with 9+ years of experience.\nDemonstrated track record shipping AI or ML systems that run in production at enterprise scale - not demos or isolated POCs.\nDeep fluency with modern generative AI stacks: foundation model APIs, RAG, vector search, tool-use / function calling, agent orchestration, and evaluation frameworks.\nExpert-level software craft: Python required; strong additional experience in at least one of TypeScript/Java/Go; rigorous testing, observability, and API design.\nExperience designing platforms used by other engineering teams (internal developer platforms, ML platforms, or equivalent).\nStrong systems thinking: latency, reliability, cost, data lineage, identity/auth, secrets, and failure modes of probabilistic systems.\nProven ability to operate in a regulated industry (financial services, payments, healthcare, or similarly constrained environments).\nExcellent written and verbal communication with executives and with engineers; can write an architecture decision record and a board-ready risk brief.\nBachelor’s in Computer Science or related field required; Master’s or equivalent depth preferred.\nExperience in payments, commerce, fraud/risk, identity, or large-scale transaction systems.\nHands-on work with agent frameworks (e.g., LangGraph or equivalent), MCP-style tool protocols, and multi-agent patterns.\nMLOps / LLMOps platform experience (feature stores, model registries, experiment tracking, online/offline eval pipelines).\nPrior ownership of AI governance engineering: policy-as-code, access minimization, PII handling, model cards, audit trails.\nExperience standing up forward-deployed or tiger-team models that embed with business domains.\nOpen-source contributions, internal platform adoption metrics, or published technical writing that other engineers actually use.\n\nInformation for US Applicants\nFor roles located in the US, the estimated salary range for this position is $230,500.00 to $ 369,400.00 USD per year, which may include potential sales incentive payments (if applicable). Salary may vary depending on job-related factors which may include knowledge, skills, experience, and location. In addition, this position may be eligible for bonus and equity.Visa has a comprehensive benefits package for which this position may be eligible that includes Medical, Dental, Vision, 401(k), FSA/HSA, Life Insurance, Paid Time Off, and Wellness Program.Work Hours\nVaries upon the needs of the department.\nTravel Requirements\nThis position requires travel 5-10% of the time.\nMental/Physical Requirements\nThis position will be performed in an office setting. The position will require the incumbent to sit and stand at a desk, communicate in person and by telephone, frequently operate standard office equipment, such as telephones and computers.\nVisa is an EEO Employer\nQualified applicants will receive consideration for employment without regard to race, color religion, sex, national origin, sexual orientation, gender identity, disability or protect veteran status. 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