Job Description

Posted on:

October 27, 2024

A Career with Point72’s Technology Team

The Generative AI Technology team at Point72 is a group of skilled professionals dedicated to conceptualizing and developing the firm’s Generative AI efforts, especially its Generative AI platform. This team collaborates closely with business stakeholders and development teams across Technology and the business to deploy innovative AI technology that can transform the firm’s operations.

What You’ll Do

  • Architect, build, maintain, deploy, and support the internal GenAI platform, including API/SDKs, services, platform backend, and integration with third-party models and vendors.
  • Design and build advanced GenAI plugins and services to streamline workflows and develop novel solutions for complex challenges.
  • Conduct code and PR reviews for contributions within the team and from the firm’s inner source contributors.
  • Collaborate with the DevOps team to develop and maintain efficient CI/CD pipelines and processes.
  • Work with the Cloud Engineering team to build and maintain a multi-cloud platform, leveraging models across multiple cloud providers while adhering to industry best practices.
  • Collaborate with research, product, data, and UI/UX teams to ensure platform requirement fulfillment.
  • Design and implement best practices for Vector DB architecture, including data modeling, entitlements, indexing, and query optimization.
  • Stay at the forefront of generative AI and LLMs, collaborating with the research team to ensure timely capability offerings on the platform.
  • Produce clear, detailed design and technical documentation for APIs, features, tools, and other platform capabilities.

What's Required

  • Bachelor's degree in computer science, artificial intelligence, machine learning, or related field.
  • 2+ years of experience with LLMs, Natural Language Processing (NLP), and/or prompt engineering.
  • 5+ years of industry experience in Python development.
  • Strong experience designing SDKs and REST APIs for integration with internal business applications and third-party vendors.
  • Expertise in system architecture design for deploying scalable, reliable, and tested systems in business-critical environments.
  • Experience with tools such as FastAPI, Pydantic, SQLAlchemy, Pandas, Poetry, along with cloud provider services like Azure OpenAI, AWS Bedrock, or GCP Vertex.
  • Familiarity with Datadog, Alembic, PostgreSQL, Celery, AWS, Redis, Jinja, and DevOps tools like Jenkins, GitHub Actions, Artifactory, Helm.
  • A team player who can lead by example, manage changing priorities, and explain technical concepts to senior and non-technical stakeholders.
  • Commitment and adherence to the highest ethical standards.

We Take Care of Our People

  • Fully-paid healthcare benefits.
  • Generous parental and family leave policies.
  • Mental and physical wellness programs.
  • Volunteer opportunities and a non-profit matching gift program.
  • Support for employee-led affinity groups for women, minorities, and LGBTQ+ community.
  • Tuition assistance and a 401(k) savings program with an employer match.

About Point72

Point72 Asset Management is a global firm led by Steven Cohen, investing in multiple asset classes and strategies worldwide. With over 25 years of investing experience, we seek to be the industry’s premier asset manager, delivering superior risk-adjusted returns, adhering to the highest ethical standards, and offering the greatest opportunities to the industry’s brightest talent. We’re shaping the future of finance by evolving our people development and data usage. For more details, visit www.Point72.com/working-here.

The annual base salary range for this role is $250,000-$300,000 (USD), excluding discretionary bonus compensation and our comprehensive benefits package. Actual compensation for the successful candidate may vary from the posted hiring range depending on geographic location, work experience, education, skill level, among other factors.

Secret insights

Point72 is expanding fast with a robust 25% headcount increase, now at 2,754. Engineering grew 30%, showing strong tech focus. HR up 40% – they’re investing in talent. Perfect for AI seekers!