AI Engineer

Overview

Athene is accelerating its AI initiatives by hiring multiple AI Engineers to transform how we serve customers, agents, and business partners. As a leader in insurance and annuities, we are committed to applying Generative AI, Agentic AI, and Machine Learning to drive operational excellence and deliver innovative products.

• Build, deploy, and optimize full‑stack AI‑powered applications using LLMs, intelligent agents, and machine learning.
• Design and scale Retrieval‑Augmented Generation (RAG) pipelines, vector search systems, and LLM evaluation workflows.
• Create AI agents with frameworks such as Lang Chain, Auto Gen, Llama Index, or Lang Graph.
• Ingest and process unstructured and structured data through parsing, chunking, embeddings, and retrieval.
• Develop intuitive user experiences powered by LLMs and AI agents for real‑time workflows.
• Integrate enterprise AI tools such as Claude, GPT‑4/GPT‑4o, ChatGPT Enterprise, Copilot, Glean, and Shelf.
• Drive document automation and multilingual natural language processing, including summarization, translation, and named entity recognition.
• Implement observability, governance, and responsible AI practices in compliance with regulations.
• Collaborate with IT, data, compliance, and business leaders to deliver business‑facing solutions.

• Bachelor’s degree in computer science, engineering, or a related field (or equivalent experience).
• 5+ years in software engineering or data science, with at least 1 year working with Generative AI, LLMs, or Agentic AI.
• Proficiency in Python, REST APIs, React or Node.js, and cloud‑native infrastructure (Docker, CI/CD pipelines).
• Hands‑on experience with AWS AI services such as Bedrock, Sage Maker, Textract, Translate, and related tools.
• Strong knowledge of LLMs, embeddings, prompt engineering, and the use of AI tools for development.
• Proven ability to prototype, iterate, and scale AI‑enabled features in production environments.
• Familiarity with compliance and regulatory requirements in insurance or financial services (preferred).
• Demonstrated AI‑first developer mindset, using AI to scaffold, test, and refactor code.

We are an equal opportunity employer. We do not discriminate on the basis of race, color, religion, sex, national origin, age, disability, marital status, sexual orientation, veteran status, or any other status protected by federal, state, or local law.