AI Engineer

About the company Athene is a leader in insurance and annuities committed to applying Generative AI, Agentic AI, and Machine Learning to drive operational excellence and deliver innovative products. They foster an inclusive and dynamic work environment across multiple locations. About the role Athene is hiring multiple AI Engineers to scale next-generation AI capabilities across sales, marketing, finance, risk management, and enterprise productivity. You'll join a small, cross-functional team building AI-native solutions from the ground up—prototyping, experimenting, and moving fast from concept to production. Responsibilities - Build, deploy, and optimize full-stack AI-powered applications using LLMs, intelligent agents, and ML - Design and scale RAG pipelines, vector search systems, and LLM evaluation workflows - Create AI agents using frameworks such as LangChain, AutoGen, LlamaIndex, or LangGraph - Ingest and process unstructured/structured data (parsing, chunking, embeddings, retrieval) - Develop intuitive user experiences powered by LLMs and AI agents for real-time workflows - Integrate enterprise AI tools such as Claude, GPT-4/4o, ChatGPT Enterprise, Copilot, Glean, and Shelf - Drive document automation and multilingual NLP (summarization, translation, NER) - Implement observability, governance, and responsible AI practices in compliance with regulations - Collaborate with IT, data, compliance, and business leaders to deliver business-facing solutions Requirements - Bachelor's degree in Computer Science, Engineering, or related field (or equivalent experience) - 5+ years in software engineering or data science, with 1+ year in GenAI/LLM/Agentic AI - Proficiency in Python, REST APIs, React/Node.js, and cloud-native infrastructure (Docker, CI/CD) - Hands-on experience with AWS AI services (Bedrock, SageMaker, Textract, Translate, etc.) - Strong knowledge of LLMs, embeddings, prompt engineering, and tool use - Proven ability to prototype, iterate, and scale AI-enabled features Nice to have - Familiarity with compliance/regulatory needs in insurance or financial services - AI-first developer mindset: using AI for scaffolding, testing, and refactoring code Benefits & perks - Inclusive and dynamic work environment - Military Friendly Employer with veteran support programs Compensation Not specified