Sun Life Financial - Wellesley Hills, MA

posted 25 days ago

Full-time - Senior
Wellesley Hills, MA
Insurance Carriers and Related Activities

About the position

SLC Management is a growing global asset management firm providing innovative and diversified investment solutions to institutional investors. We are breaking new ground with a full spectrum of solutions for a growing institutional client base of more than 1300 organizations. Our history of organic and strategic growth reflects this commitment with over CA$374/US$283 billion in assets under management (AUM). As a subsidiary of Sun Life, we are aligned with one of the world's leading financial services companies, and benefit from the stability and strength of that relationship. We are a performance-driven organization with a deliberate focus on fostering a development-focused, inclusive culture revolving around our Core Values of being client obsessed, valuing each other, acting with speed and having an owner's mindset. As part of our team, you play a role in fulfilling our purpose and making a difference. We offer a rewarding work environment that is filled with opportunity for growth where you will be empowered to meet the challenges of a highly competitive landscape. The Principal AI Engineer will work in partnership with the Office of the CIO, and the SLC Digital Solutions & Innovations team to collaborate and deliver on advanced solutions for SLC Management initiatives. Reporting to the Managing Director, Chief of Staff, Office of the CIO & the Senior Director, Data Platform Technology Owner, the Principal AI Engineer will experiment with various AI and data engineering capabilities that can drive business outcomes and enhance customer experience.

Responsibilities

  • Design, develop and deploy generative AI solutions.
  • Implement RAG pipelines to enhance information retrieval and generation tasks.
  • Research, evaluate and build emerging AI techniques and frameworks as a hands-on leader.
  • Develop a deep understanding of the differences between prompting and training LLMs and apply this knowledge to optimize model performance.
  • Test and evaluate various LLMs offered as part of the AWS Bedrock platform to identify the best fit for specific use cases.
  • Analyze and address issues related to model speed, performance, and cost-effectiveness.
  • Oversee the design, construction, and release of use cases end-to-end.
  • Document and present AI solutions, including methodology, results, and limitations, to both technical and non-technical audiences.
  • Collaborate with cross-functional teams to implement and maintain robust solutions & pipelines, adhering to best practices and standards of SLC.
  • Provide technical leadership to junior team members, contributing to the growth and development of AI within SLC.
  • Build & grow capability and the practice of advanced analytics across the firm.

Requirements

  • 8+ years of professional hands-on development experience building data solutions using cloud native technologies (AWS, Azure, Database/warehouses like Snowflake, SQLServer).
  • 5+ years using Python, especially machine learning frameworks and libraries.
  • Proven experience building generative AI solutions, including RAG optimizations.
  • Strong understanding of prompting vs. training for large language models.
  • Experience in data engineering, such as data ingestion, processing, storage, & visualization.
  • Excellent communication and presentation skills, and ability to work in a team.

Nice-to-haves

  • Knowledge of the asset management industry and its applications is a plus.

Benefits

  • Excellent benefits and wellness programs to support mental, physical and financial well-being.
  • Generous vacation and sick time.
  • Market-leading paid family, parental and adoption leave.
  • Partially-paid sabbatical program.
  • Medical plans, company paid life and AD&D insurance, as well as disability programs.
  • Retirement and Stock Purchase programs including a 401(k) plan with an employer-paid match.
  • Flexible work environment with a friendly, caring, collaborative and inclusive culture focused on career growth development.
  • Opportunity to move along a variety of career paths with amazing networking potential.
  • Award winning workplace culture - Great Place to Work Certified in Canada and the U.S.
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