Senior Developer - Quantitative

As a Software Engineer, you will be responsible for delivering high quality solutions that meet business objectives in a flexible, collaborative, and rapidly changing delivery environment. The ideal candidate will be a highly motivated, organized, and experienced technology individual with experience in building applications using Artificial Intelligence tools and capabilities.

Software Engineer Responsibilities:

• Hands-on development, and participation in architectural designs.
• Design, build, test, and deploy generative AI-enabled applications and services in an Agile practice.
• Write production-quality code, prompts, evaluation scripts, and integration components.
• Integrate generative AI initiatives into established enterprise SDLC processes.
• Design and implement solutions leveraging large language models (LLMs), embeddings, retrieval-augmented generation (RAG), and conversational AI frameworks.
• Build secure integrations between AI services and enterprise systems.
• Develop reusable foundational components, such as prompt frameworks and reusable templates, RAG pipelines and retrieval orchestration layers and guardrails, validation, and output verification layers.
• Optimize model usage for cost, latency, reliability, and scalability.
• Implement human-in-the-loop validation and structured feedback capture mechanisms.
• Lead troubleshooting and resolution of AI-related production issues.
• Diagnose failures related to prompts, retrieval pipelines, integrations, and model behavior.
• Drive automation of repetitive AI workflows and development processes.
• Make independent technical judgment on architecture, tooling, deployment models, and SDLC enhancements for generative AI systems.
• Contribute to AI-related technical decisions across product teams and engineering leadership.
• Design AI systems that enhance internal productivity and improve user and business partner experiences through reliability, transparency, and measurable value delivery.

• Bachelor's degree in Computer Science, Computer Engineering, Data Science, Financial Engineering, or equivalent experience.
• Proficiency in Python or any object-oriented design technologies.
• Experience with quantitative technologies and AI tools and capabilities
• Ability to independently prototype, evaluate, and iterate on solutions in ambiguous problem spaces.
• Excellent oral and written communication, presentation, and facilitation skills.
• Strong analytical and problem-solving skills., * Master's degree in Computer Science, Computer Engineering, Data Science, Financial Engineering, or related field.
• Experience with GitHub, GitHub actions for DevSecOps, and Atlassian suite of products (Confluence, JIRA, Bamboo) is preferred.
• Experience with quantitative technologies and optimizers like Gurobi is highly preferred.
• Financial Services Industry experience with exposure to portfolio management.
• Experience with building solutions using Large Language Models (LLMs), Prompt Engineering, Fine-Tuning (LoRA, PEFT), In-Context Learning Orchestration & Frameworks: LangChain, LangGraph, LlamaIndex, Hugging Face Transformers AI Pipelines: RAG (Retrieval-Augmented Generation), Multi-Agent Systems, Embedding strategies

We offer a competitive benefits package that takes care of the whole you - both today and in the future:

• 401(k) with company match and Employee stock purchase plan
• Paid time for vacation, volunteering, and 28-day sabbatical after every 5 years of service for eligible positions
• Paid parental leave and family building benefits
• Tuition reimbursement
• Health, dental, and vision insurance

What's in it for you:

At Schwab, we're committed to empowering our employees' personal and professional success. Our purpose-driven, supportive culture, and focus on your development means you'll get the tools you need to make a positive difference in the finance industry. Our Hybrid Work and Flexibility approach balances our ongoing commitment to workplace flexibility, serving our clients, and our strong belief in the value of being together in person on a regular basis.

We offer a competitive benefits package that takes care of the whole you - both today and in the future:

401(k) with company match and Employee stock purchase plan

Paid time for vacation, volunteering, and 28-day sabbatical after every 5 years of service for eligible positions

Paid parental leave and family building benefits

Tuition reimbursement

Health, dental, and vision insurance

At Schwab, you're empowered to make an impact on your career. Here, innovative thought meets creative problem solving, helping us "challenge the status quo" and transform the finance industry together. We Believe in the importance of in-office collaboration and fully intend for the selected candidate for this role to work on site in the specified location(s). Applicants must be currently authorized to work in the United States on a full-time basis without employer sponsorship. Schwab Technology Services (STS) enables the future of how clients manage their money by providing innovative and reliable technological products and services as a part of our ongoing commitment to democratize access to investing and financial planning. Schwab Asset Management Solutions (SAMS) Technology is part of the STS organization which is responsible for the company's use of information technology including all telecommunications, operations and client and business applications. SAMS Technology is aligned to support the technology needs of SAMS which is the investment advisor for Schwab's proprietary mutual funds, referred to as the Schwab Funds; and it includes Schwab's exchange-traded funds, referred to as the Schwab ETFs., At Schwab, you're empowered to shape your future. We champion your growth through meaningful work, continuous learning, and a culture of trust and collaboration-so you can build the skills to make a lasting impact. Our Hybrid Work and Flexibility approach balances our ongoing commitment to workplace flexibility, serving our clients, and our strong belief in the value of being together in person on a regular basis.