Principal, AI / ML Engineer

About the role

Fidelity will not provide immigration sponsorship for this position.

The Role

We are seeking a Principal AI/ML Engineer to help grow our Fidelity Institutional (FI) business by building innovative, scalable AI solutions. In this role, you'll develop and deploy production-ready AI systems that drive lead generation, intelligent product recommendations, coverage strategy optimization, and client engagement!

You will

• Develop and implement production AI and machine learning solutions using large language models (LLMs), retrieval-augmented generation (RAG), and agentic AI frameworks.
• Develop scalable data foundations, APIs, and cloud-based AI infrastructure.
• Build reliable, secure, and observable systems with a production-first demeanor.
• Partner with business and technology teams to translate complex challenges into impactful solutions.
• Establish monitoring, governance, and MLOps methods that ensure performance and scalability.
• Evaluate emerging technologies and apply them to deliver measurable

The Expertise and Skills You Bring

• Bachelor's or Master's degree or equivalent experience in Computer Science, Engineering, Data Science, or a related field.
• 6+ years of software or AI/ML engineering experience, including building and deploying AI solutions in production environments.
• Practical experience working with LLMs, prompt and context engineering, RAG architectures, and agentic AI frameworks.
• Advanced proficiency in Python and experience building clean, maintainable, well-tested production applications.
• Strong experience designing APIs and integrating AI capabilities with enterprise applications, data platforms, and business workflows.
• Experience deploying cloud-native AI solutions and applying monitoring, observability, governance, and MLOps practices.
• Experience with AWS, Snowflake, dbt, Airflow, LangChain/LangGraph, or similar technologies.
• Strong systems-thinking, problem-solving, and communication skills.
• Ability to balance innovation with practicality, delivering scalable solutions that drive business outcomes.

Preferred Attributes

• Production-first attitude focused on reliability, scalability, maintainability, and user experience.
• Ability to assess technical decisions through the lens of business impact, operational complexity, and long-term sustainability.
• Proven success collaborating across technical and non-technical teams in fast-paced environments.

The Team

Our team supports a variety of complex applications serving a diverse set of businesses and customers. The database environments are extremely critical to our success and vitality, which requires outstanding technical skill and a collaborative outlook. You'll work alongside experienced engineers, data scientists, and business partners in an environment that values innovation, learning, and delivering real business impact.

Fidelity's Onsite Working Model

• Fidelity is transitioning to a full-time onsite working model through a phased rollout across regions and roles.
• Currently, some roles and locations require 100% onsite presence, while others require less.
• Onsite expectations are likely to evolve as the rollout continues.
• This transition does not apply to fully remote roles.