AI Engineer - Vice President

The role

This person will lead the design, development, and delivery of production-grade AI systems. They will own AI projects end-to-end and mentor engineers to drive business outcomes.

What you will do

• Lead the architecture and delivery of production AI systems.
• Own AI projects end-to-end from scoping to continuous improvement.
• Drive technical design and architectural decisions for the team.
• Architect and champion robust evaluation frameworks for AI systems.
• Partner with cross-functional stakeholders to identify AI opportunities.
• Mentor and develop engineers through code review and design review.
• Identify systemic problems and propose solutions to improve processes and infrastructure.

Required qualifications

• 7+ years of experience developing and deploying production AI/ML systems.
• Experience with cloud-native solutions on AWS or similar platforms.
• Strong proficiency in Python and software engineering best practices.
• Deep expertise building production AI solutions including LLM applications, AI agents, RAG, conversational AI, document intelligence, and agentic workflows.
• Hands-on experience using modern AI frameworks, tooling, and protocols such as MCP and A2A.
• Experience designing, deploying, and operating end-to-end machine learning pipelines.
• Strong foundation in statistics, experimentation, data quality, and AI system evaluation.
• Experience leading technical design and architectural decisions and mentoring engineers.
• Excellent written and verbal communication skills.
• Experience spanning multiple AI domains, including LLM systems, document intelligence, and ML platforms or infrastructure.

Nice to have

• Experience in financial services or FinTech, particularly within document-heavy, regulated, or compliance-sensitive environments
• Contributions to open-source projects, technical publications, conference presentations, patents, or other demonstrated thought leadership in applied AI and machine learning

Benefits

• Salary
• Equity for all full-time employees
• Annual performance bonus
• Employer matched retirement plan
• Subsidized healthcare
• 100% employer paid dental, vision, telemedicine, and virtual mental health counseling
• Parental leave
• Unlimited paid time off (PTO)

About the company

iCapital is seeking a Vice President Artificial Intelligence Engineer to lead the design, development, and delivery of production-grade AI systems.