AI Engineer (Junior/Senior)

The role

AI Engineers will build and run the shared foundation for AI applications, including connectivity, runtime, packaging, quality, and release infrastructure. You will own platform components, build evaluation and observability tooling, and work with the AI Solutions team to create reusable components.

What you will do

• Own a component of the AI platform end-to-end
• Evaluate options against vendor landscape and make build-versus-buy calls
• Deploy components in a scalable, platform-engineering-driven manner
• Build and operate the agent framework and developer tooling
• Manage the MCP server and gateway estate
• Manage the marketplace of plugins and skills
• Manage entitlements and authentication layers
• Build evaluation and observability tooling
• Turn recurring solution patterns into reusable platform components
• Improve code quality and engineering practices

Nice to have

• Experience developing agentic AI applications, harnesses, MCP servers, and workflows
• Familiarity with or experience building AI agents, Retrieval-Augmented Generation (RAG) pipelines, or agentic tools
• Experience with observability tooling such as DataDog
• Experience building developer-facing platforms or internal tooling used by other engineering teams
• Exposure to identity and entitlements, or to software supply chain and package management

Benefits

• Performance bonus
• Competitive benefits package
• Learning and educational offerings

About the company

Schonfeld is a global multi-manager hedge fund that leverages internal and external portfolio manager teams to invest across four main strategies. The firm invests in proprietary technology, infrastructure and risk analytics.