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# Senior AI Engineer in New York

- **Company:** Energy Jobline
- **Location:** New York, NY, United States
- **Experience:** Expert
- **Salary:** $200,000.0 - $300,000.0
- **Contract:** Permanent contract
- **Skills:** Application Programming Interfaces (APIs), Artificial Intelligence, Databases, Continuous Integration, Data Infrastructure, Data Security, Software Design Patterns, Intrusion Detection and Prevention, Python (Programming Language), Operational Databases, Software Engineering, Large Language Models, Kubernetes, GPT
- **Published:** September 10, 2026
- **Apply:** https://www.energyjobline.com/job/senior-ai-engineer-new-york-31596125

## About the Role

5+ years software engineering; strong Python

 - Production LLM-powered agent systems shipped (not demos)
 - Experience integrating agents with databases, APIs, and internal data sources
 - MCP and/or tool-calling experience in production
 - Security experience in regulated or sensitive-data environments
 - Kubernetes, CI/CD, observability
 - Autonomous; strong communication with technical and non-technical stakeholders

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 - Prop trading, hedge fund, or financial services
 - Firm-wide platform or standards work
 - Multi-model environments (Claude, GPT, etc.)
 - Agent evaluation and testing in production

## Description

Define firm-wide standards for agent and MCP development

 - Build reference agent applications for business teams
 - Design patterns for connecting agents to internal databases, APIs, and knowledge sources
 - Establish security and governance requirements for AI in a regulated trading environment
 - Partner with Security on AI-specific controls (data access, audit, threat detection)
 - Evaluate and adopt infrastructure for agent deployment and observability
 - Partner with stakeholders to identify and deliver high-value use cases


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