AI Agent & Infrastructure - Lead Engineer

FINRARockville, MD
Hybrid

About The Position

Architects and builds the infrastructure and tooling that powers AI agent development across the Software Development Lifecycle (SDLC). Develops production-grade agentic systems, orchestration frameworks, and observability solutions that enable teams to build, deploy, and monitor reliable AI agents at scale. Plays a key role in defining and implementing the next generation of SDLC through AI-first innovation and comprehensive instrumentation. You demonstrate sharp product sense for high-impact automation opportunities, technical taste in implementation decisions, and the ability to clearly articulate trade-offs. You know when to apply AI agent solutions versus simpler approaches and can explain the "why" behind architectural choices. You excel at 0-to-1 (and 1-to-100) product development, comfortable operating in ambiguous environments where requirements emerge through experimentation and iteration rather than upfront specification.

Requirements

  • Bachelor’s degree in Computer Science, Information Systems or related discipline with at least 7 years of related experience, or equivalent training and/or work experience.
  • Strong system design experience
  • Strong experience in object-oriented development
  • Strong experience with cloud technologies
  • Strong experience in data storage technologies
  • Strong experience in performance tuning and optimization
  • Strong experience in DevOps and CI\CD technologies
  • Strong experience test automation and unit testing
  • Strong experience software security
  • Java, Python, JavaScript/TypeScript
  • Angular, Spring Boot
  • CI/CD platforms and cloud infrastructure (AWS)
  • Monitoring/observability tools (e.g., Prometheus, Grafana, CloudWatch)

Responsibilities

  • Develop production-grade AI agents that eliminate manual handoffs across the SDLC
  • Create custom integrations and CLI tools that give agents deep understanding of internal systems and codebases
  • Design comprehensive testing strategies to ensure agent reliability and output quality
  • Implement "Golden Path" scaffolding that embeds organizational standards into new projects
  • Build AI solutions that improve codebase navigation, documentation, and developer workflows
  • Identify workflow bottlenecks and deliver measurable impact through intelligent automation
  • Shape SDLC evolution by identifying AI-first opportunities and proving outcomes through experimentation
  • Architect and maintain production infrastructure supporting agent deployment, lifecycle management, and scaling
  • Develop agent frameworks, templates, and SDKs that accelerate agent development
  • Create governed Model Context Protocol (MCP) catalog enabling compliant agent-to-agent and agent-to-MCP communication
  • Implement governance controls for agent behavior, permissions, and system access
  • Design and implement metrics, monitoring, and logging infrastructure for AI agents and development workflows
  • Build dashboards that provide actionable insights into developer productivity, tool adoption, and agent performance
  • Establish KPIs and measurement frameworks to quantify the impact of AI-powered automation
  • Create alerting and anomaly detection systems to ensure reliability of agents and tooling
  • Analyze telemetry data to identify optimization opportunities and guide strategic investment decisions
  • Partner across teams to drive adoption of AI-powered tooling and process transformation
  • Stay current with LLM technologies and coach colleagues on AI-assisted development and automation best practices
  • Rapidly prototype solutions to validate use cases and prove value quickly
  • Communicate data-driven insights to stakeholders through clear visualizations and reports

Benefits

  • health, dental and vision insurance
  • basic life, accidental death and dismemberment, supplemental life, spouse/domestic partner and dependent life, and spouse/domestic partner and dependent accidental death and dismemberment, short- and long-term disability, long-term care, business travel accident, disability and legal
  • immediate participation and vesting in a 401(k) plan with company match
  • eligibility for participation in an additional FINRA-funded retirement contribution
  • tuition reimbursement
  • commuter benefits
  • adoption assistance
  • backup family care
  • surrogacy benefits
  • employee assistance
  • wellness programs
  • 15 days of paid time off
  • 5 personal days
  • 9 sick days
  • two volunteer service days
  • military leave
  • jury duty leave
  • bereavement leave
  • voting and election official leave for federal, state or local primary and general elections
  • care of a family member leave (available after 90 days of employment)
  • childbirth and parental leave (available after 90 days of employment)
  • nine paid holidays
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