Lead Full-Stack AI Engineer

As a Lead Full-Stack Engineer, you will play a key role in shaping and evolving New York Life’s enterprise AI platform while building scalable agentic AI solutions that drive business transformation. You will collaborate closely with business stakeholders to lead technical initiatives, shape architecture decisions, and mentor engineers, while remaining highly hands-on in the design, development, deployment, and operation of production AI systems. What You’ll Do

• Lead the design and implementation of enterprise AI platform capabilities, including agent runtimes, lifecycle services, orchestration frameworks, memory services, governance systems, and developer tooling.
• Build and deliver complex agentic AI solutions using multi-agent architectures, knowledge systems, planning frameworks, and enterprise integrations.
• Architect enterprise retrieval and knowledge management capabilities using RAG, knowledge graphs, semantic search, embeddings, and advanced retrieval approaches.
• Design scalable cloud-native AI infrastructure using Google Cloud Platform, Kubernetes, Infrastructure as Code, observability frameworks, and enterprise identity services.
• Lead implementation of MLOps and LLMOps practices including deployment, evaluation, monitoring, governance, cost optimization, and production operations.
• Partner with architecture, security, legal, risk, and business stakeholders to ensure solutions meet enterprise standards.
• Drive engineering excellence through architecture reviews, reusable frameworks, technical mentorship, and operational best practices.
• Champion AI-assisted software engineering and help establish engineering patterns that accelerate delivery and quality., * Build across the full AI stack. Work on both the enterprise platform and the intelligent solutions built on top of it.
• Solve meaningful business problems. Develop production agentic AI systems that transform how work is performed across New York Life.
• Join a senior engineering team. Work alongside experienced engineers in a high-autonomy, high-ownership environment with minimal bureaucracy.
• Shape enterprise AI. Help define the engineering standards, governance patterns, and technical foundation that will enable AI across the organization.
• Build for the long term. This is a strategic platform investment focused on scalable, production-ready capabilities-not short-lived experiments.

• 5-8+ years of software engineering experience.
• Strong experience building enterprise platforms, cloud-native systems, or distributed applications.
• Hands-on expertise with generative AI technologies, agentic architectures, RAG, memory systems, retrieval solutions, and enterprise AI applications.
• Experience implementing MLOps and LLMOps capabilities in production environments.
• Strong cloud engineering experience with Google Cloud Platform, Kubernetes, CI/CD, Infrastructure as Code, and observability tooling.
• Proven ability to lead complex technical projects and influence architecture decisions.
• Experience mentoring engineers and driving engineering best practices.

We are committed to attracting exceptional talent and will consider flexible work arrangements for the right candidate. Job Level: LEVELPF4 Pay Transparency Salary Range: $124,000-$177,000 Overtime eligible: Exempt Discretionary bonus eligible: Yes Sales bonus eligible: No Actual base salary will be determined based on several factors but not limited to individual’s experience, skills, qualifications, and job location. Additionally, employees are eligible for an annual discretionary bonus. In addition to base salary, employees may also be eligible to participate in an incentive program.

Across technology, data, AI, cyber, product, digital experience, architecture and infrastructure, TDAV combines the scale and investment of an industry leader, access to leading-edge technologies and the opportunity to help shape how a world-class financial services company competes in the AI era - all backed by the stability and purpose of a mutual company built to last., At New York Life, our 180-year legacy of purpose and integrity fuels our future. As we evolve into a more technology-, data-, and AI-enabled organization, we remain grounded in the values that drive lasting impact. Our diverse business portfolio creates opportunities to make a difference across industries and communities-inviting bold thinking, collaborative problem-solving, and purpose-driven innovation. Here, you’ll find the rare balance of long-standing stability and forward momentum, supported by an inclusive team that honors tradition while embracing progress. As a Fortune 100 mutual company, we offer a place to grow your skills, contribute to meaningful work, and deliver solutions that matter. Your ideas drive what’s next, and your growth powers it. Our Benefits We provide a full package of benefits for employees - and have unique offerings for a modern workforce, including leave programs, adoption assistance, and student loan repayment programs. Based on feedback from our employees, we continue to refine and add benefits to our offering, so that you can flourish both inside and outside of work. to discover more about our comprehensive benefit options or visit our . Our Commitment to Inclusion At New York Life, fostering an inclusive workplace is fundamental to who we are and how we serve our communities. We have a longstanding commitment to creating an environment where individuals can contribute their best and succeed together. This foundation is rooted in our core values of humanity and integrity, ensuring that every employee feels valued and supported. By embracing a broad range of perspectives and experiences, we achieve greater success and fulfill our promise of providing financial security and peace of mind to families across all communities. to learn more about New York Life’s leadership in this space. Recognized as one of Fortune’s World’s Most Admired Companies, New York Life is committed to improving local communities through a culture of employee giving and volunteerism, supported by the . We’re proud that due to our mutuality, we operate in the best interests of our policy owners. To learn more about career opportunities at New York Life, please visit the page of . Job Requisition ID: 94768 About NY Life Insurance Company Diversity & Humanity-two values that are deeply rooted in the New York Life culture and have laid the foundation for over 175 years of commitment to our employees, agents, policy owners, and the communities where we live and work. At New York Life you become a valued part of a welcoming, inclusive, and caring culture that has a long-standing legacy in stability and growth. The strength of New York Life revolves around our diversified, multi-dimensional business portfolio that goes beyond life insurance, and we want you to be a part of our legacy. As a Fortune 100 company and industry leader, we provide an environment where you can explore your career ambitions, offering opportunities to tackle meaningful challenges and stretch your skills while balancing work and life priorities. You will be part of a diverse team guided by our belief to always be there for each other-providing the support and flexibility to grow and reach new heights while making an impact in the lives of others. You are our future, and we commit to investing in you accordingly. Visit our to see how our employees and agents are leading the industry and impacting communities. Visit our to learn more about how our company is constantly evolving to meet our clients’ and employees’ needs.