Artificial Intelligence / Machine Learning Engineer - Associate

iCapital is building production-grade AI capabilities to support real business outcomes in a FinTech environment. As an Associate AI / Machine Learning Engineer (hybrid in New York, NY), you will help design, implement, evaluate, and operate AI systems delivered as APIs and services. You will collaborate with senior engineers and cross-functional partners while bringing practical engineering rigor to models, data, and production operations.

What you’ll be doing

• Design and implement modular AI capabilities, including LLM-based reasoning, document intelligence (OCR/IDP), intelligent knowledge systems, and agentic orchestration to enable internal and external workflow automation.
• Own parts of the full AI system life cycle, from scoping and POC through solution design, model development, deployment, monitoring, and continuous improvement in production environments.
• Build robust evaluation pipelines by defining statistically sound, problem-specific metrics, creating and curating benchmark datasets, and enforcing strict dataset and model versioning to support reproducibility and iteration.
• Collaborate across teams and share outcomes through clear documentation, write-ups, and engineering handoffs.

What you bring

• 2-3 years of relevant experience, including hands-on work developing production AI/ML systems, plus exposure to AWS or cloud-native development patterns for AI/ML workloads.
• Strong proficiency in Python.
• Solid foundations in statistics, exploratory data analysis, and the ability to reason about data quality, experiments, and error patterns.
• Clear written and verbal communication, with the ability to document work and collaborate effectively.
• Experience with modern LLM tooling such as transformers, unsloth, vLLM, and agentic frameworks, or experience with document AI approaches including IDP.
• Familiarity with software development best practices including source control, CI/CD, testing, and documentation across a full development lifecycle.
• Experience with agentic communication protocols (such as MCP or A2A) is a plus.

Tech you may work with

Python, AWS, transformers, unsloth, vLLM, agentic frameworks, OCR, IDP, MCP, A2A

Compensation and schedule

Salary: USD 100,000 - 130,000 per year. Location: New York, NY (hybrid). Employees in this role work in the office Monday-Thursday, with the flexibility to work remotely on Friday.

Benefits

• Equity for all full-time employees
• Annual performance bonus
• Employer matched retirement plan
• Comprehensive benefits package including generously subsidized healthcare, with 100% employer paid dental
• 100% employer paid vision
• Telemedicine
• Virtual mental health counseling
• Parental leave
• Unlimited paid time off (PTO)