Lead AI Engineer
TASC
full-time
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Location Type: Office
Location: Arlington • California, Montana, New York, Virginia • 🇺🇸 United States
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💰 $119,000 - $228,000 per year
Job Level
Senior
Tech Stack
AWSAzureCloudFlaskGoogle Cloud PlatformJavaScriptMicroservicesNode.jsPython
About the role
- Develop and enhance AI agents and backend systems for Mastercard’s AI platform
- Evaluate LLMs and emerging technologies to identify innovation opportunities
- Design and optimize prompts for LLMs
- Implement safeguards to ensure secure, ethical AI responses
- Build APIs, microservices, and data integrations for AI features
- Write clean, maintainable code following industry best practices
- Stay current with advancements in AI and software engineering
- Collaborate with senior engineers, data scientists, and product teams to deliver AI solutions
- Implement Agentic AI systems, develop backend services, and experiment with new AI capabilities
Requirements
- Strong hands-on experience and understanding of AI/ML concepts and enthusiasm for generative AI
- Experience with Python and backend frameworks (e.g., FastAPI, Flask, Node.js)
- Knowledge of REST APIs and cloud platforms (AWS, Azure, GCP)
- Strong analytical skills and curiosity for exploring new AI capabilities
- Collaborative mindset and openness to feedback and mentorship
- Interest in prompt engineering, AI safety, and scalable deployment
- Experience evaluating LLMs and emerging AI technologies
- Experience building APIs, microservices, and data integrations for AI features
Benefits
- insurance (including medical, prescription drug, dental, vision, disability, life insurance)
- flexible spending account and health savings account
- paid leaves (including 16 weeks of new parent leave and up to 20 days of bereavement leave)
- 80 hours of Paid Sick and Safe Time
- 25 days of vacation time and 5 personal days (pro-rated based on date of hire)
- 10 annual paid U.S. observed holidays
- 401k with a best-in-class company match
- deferred compensation for eligible roles
- fitness reimbursement or on-site fitness facilities
- eligibility for tuition reimbursement
- competitive base salary and may be eligible for an annual bonus or commissions depending on the role
Applicant Tracking System Keywords
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Hard skills
AI/ML conceptsPythonFastAPIFlaskNode.jsREST APIscloud platformsAWSAzureGCP
Soft skills
analytical skillscuriositycollaborative mindsetopenness to feedbackmentorship