Vice President, Forward Deployed Engineer Greater New York City, NY Area + 1 more

The Company is seeking a Vice President, Forward Deployed Engineer to connect investment strategy, quantitative analysis, and applied AI. The role partners with investment leaders and research teams to translate business needs into AI-enabled solutions, then designs, prototypes, and deploys capabilities that support investment decisions and research. Responsibilities include delivering proof-of-concepts and production-ready tools, collaborating with technology, data, risk, and compliance teams, and shaping the investment technology roadmap. The successful candidate will also guide promising prototypes into secure, scalable, and sustainable enterprise solutions. Candidates should have at least 10 years of combined experience in investment management, quantitative research or strategy, and hands-on software or AI engineering, including a record of turning investment problems into working solutions. Strong Python skills and practical experience building and deploying LLM-enabled applications—including retrieval-augmented generation, embeddings, agent workflows, prompt engineering, and API integration—are required. Applicants should bring expertise in cloud infrastructure and modern software practices, fluency in at least one asset class, and experience delivering secure, auditable AI solutions in regulated environments. Experience supporting front-office investment teams and familiarity with agent frameworks, vector databases, or internal research tools are preferred; an investment credential such as a CFA or FRM is also an advantage.

Hiring Company

Ameriprise Financial