Lead Engineer, AI Agent & Infrastructure

FINRA

Lead Engineer developing AI agent tooling and infrastructure improving software development lifecycle. Architecting and building solutions while mentoring other Software Engineers within AI innovation.

Posted 5/30/2026full-timeRockville • Maryland • 🇺🇸 United StatesSenior💰 $114,200 - $248,700 per yearWebsite

Tech Stack

Tools & technologies

CloudSDLC

About the role

Key responsibilities & impact

Own development of software products and improve overall product quality
Architect and build infrastructure and tooling for AI agent development
Develop production-grade agentic systems and observability solutions
Define and implement next generation of SDLC through AI innovation
Develop production-grade AI agents and create custom integrations and CLI tools
Design testing strategies to ensure agent reliability and output quality
Build AI solutions to enhance code navigation and developer workflows
Architect and maintain production infrastructure for agent deployment and scaling
Create governed Model Context Protocol catalog and implement governance controls
Design and implement metrics, monitoring, and logging infrastructure
Build dashboards for actionable insights into productivity, tool adoption, and performance
Analyze data to identify optimization opportunities and guide investment decisions
Partner across teams for AI-powered tooling adoption
Stay current with LLM technologies and coach colleagues on best practices
Rapidly prototype solutions to validate use cases and communicate insights to stakeholders

Requirements

What you’ll need

Bachelor’s degree in Computer Science, Information Systems or related discipline
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 in test automation and unit testing
Strong experience in software security

Benefits

Comp & perks

comprehensive health, dental and vision insurance
basic life and accidental death and dismemberment insurance
supplemental life, spouse/domestic partner and dependent life insurance
short- and long-term disability
long-term care insurance
business travel accident insurance
disability and legal insurance
401(k) plan with company match
FINRA-funded retirement contribution
tuition reimbursement
commuter benefits
adoption assistance
backup family care
surrogacy benefits
employee assistance programs
wellness programs
15 days of paid time off
5 personal days
9 sick days
2 volunteer service days
military leave
jury duty leave
bereavement leave
voting and election official leave
childbirth and parental leave
nine paid holidays

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Hard Skills & Tools

AI developmentproduction-grade systemsSDLCobject-oriented developmentcloud technologiesdata storage technologiesperformance tuningDevOpsCI/CDtest automation

Soft Skills

communicationcollaborationcoachingproblem-solvinganalytical thinking

Certifications

Bachelor’s degree in Computer ScienceBachelor’s degree in Information Systems