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We believe doing the right thing for our clients and our associates is good business. With a career at the firm, you can expect opportunities to create real impact at work and in your community. You’ll enjoy resources to support your career path, as well as compensation, benefits, and flexibility to enrich your life. Here, you’ll find a collaborative culture that respects and values differences and colleagues who share a spirit of generosity.
Join us for the opportunity to grow and make a difference in ways that matter to you.
Role Summary
We are seeking an experienced Lead Software Engineer to join T. Rowe Price Labs’ AI Engineering team. In this role, you will lead the design and delivery of production-grade AI systems, guide technical direction across high-impact initiatives, and help define how AI products are built, hardened, and scaled across the firm.
Positions are available in our New York City office or with our AI Engineering squad in Harbor Point, Baltimore, MD. In either location, you will work closely with engineers, product owners, and business stakeholders to incubate new AI products, mature them for production, and enable broader adoption through a Build-Operate-Transfer model.
This is a hands-on technical leadership role for someone who enjoys solving complex engineering problems, mentoring other engineers, and shaping best practices for responsible AI. You will contribute to reusable AI capabilities, influence engineering standards, and help set direction for modern AI engineering at T. Rowe Price.
Responsibilities
- Lead the design, development, deployment, and evolution of production-grade AI agents and intelligent systems within modern cloud-native architectures.
- Provide technical leadership and mentorship to engineers across squads, helping raise the bar on architecture, engineering quality, and execution.
- Drive the Build-Operate-Transfer model by incubating new AI products, hardening them for production, and partnering with business-aligned technology teams to transition proven solutions for long-term ownership and scale.
- Work closely with engineers, product owners, and senior partners to shape ambiguous problems into scalable AI solutions that deliver measurable business value.
- Guide the development of reusable AI capabilities and shared platform components across areas such as agent orchestration, tool use, retrieval-based systems, evaluation frameworks, observability, and guardrails.
- Champion engineering excellence through strong software design, code quality, automated testing, continuous integration, and continuous delivery practices.
- Ensure AI systems are built with measurable quality, production readiness, operational observability, and appropriate safety controls.
- Oversee technical debt and drive continuous improvement across AI platforms, services, and development standards.
- Identify and pursue opportunities to apply AI in ways that accelerate workflows, improve decision-making, and create scalable business impact across the firm.
Business Knowledge
- Engage directly with business stakeholders, product owners, and senior partners to understand priorities, shape solution direction, and align technical decisions to business outcomes.
- Apply strong product and engineering judgment to balance innovation, scalability, risk, and long-term maintainability.
- Translate complex business needs into robust, scalable technical solutions that support both immediate value delivery and broader enterprise adoption.
Qualifications
Required:
- BS or MS in Computer Science or a related technical field, or equivalent practical experience.
- 8+ years of progressive software engineering experience developing applications in object-oriented languages such as Java, Python, or JavaScript, including experience leading technical delivery across teams or major initiatives.
- Extensive hands-on experience architecting and delivering cloud-native solutions using AWS or equivalent, containerized microservices, and modern software delivery practices.
- Experience building or leading development of AI-enabled systems, intelligent workflows, or agentic applications in production or near-production environments.
- Strong familiarity with modern AI engineering patterns such as agent orchestration, tool integration, retrieval-based systems, evaluation approaches, monitoring, or guardrails.
- Exceptional analytical, problem-solving, and system design skills, with a proven ability to lead teams through complex technical challenges.
- Strong communication and influence skills, with the ability to work effectively across engineering, product, and business stakeholders.
- Demonstrated commitment to engineering excellence through setting and upholding standards for automated testing, code reviews, observability, and continuous delivery.
- Results-oriented leader with a passion for mentoring others, fostering innovation, and operating effectively in a rapidly evolving technology landscape.
Preferred:
- Experience contributing to shared platform capabilities, workflow systems, retrieval-based services, or other reusable engineering components.
- Understanding of financial markets, asset management, or financial instruments.
FINRA Requirements
FINRA licenses are not required and will not be supported for this role.
Work Flexibility
This role is eligible for hybrid work, with up to three days per week from home.
Base Salary Ranges
Please review the job posting for the location of this specific opportunity.
$145,000.00 - $247,000.00 for the location of: Maryland, Colorado, Washington and remote workers$159,000.00 - $272,000.00 for the location of: Washington, D.C.
$181,000.00 - $309,000.00 for the location of: New York, California
Placement within the range provided above is based on the individual’s relevant experience and skills for the role. Base salary is only one component of our total compensation package. Employees may be eligible for a discretionary bonus, which is determined upon company and individual performance.
Commitment to Diversity, Equity, and Inclusion
At T. Rowe Price, our associates are our greatest asset. We thrive because our company culture is built on inclusion and because we sustain a work environment where associates can bring their best selves to work every day. The backgrounds, talents, and experiences of our global associates allow us to embrace new ideas and perspectives that move our business priorities forward and enable us to deliver strong client outcomes. Here, you can expect equal opportunity and fair and consistent treatment for all.
Benefits
We value your goals and needs, at work and in life. As an associate, you’ll be supported with resources, benefits, and work-life balance so you can thrive in ways that matter to you.
Featured employee benefits to enrich your life:
Competitive compensation
Annual bonus eligibility
A generous retirement plan
Hybrid work schedule
Health and wellness benefits, including online therapy
Paid time off for vacation, illness, medical appointments, and volunteering days
Family care resources, including fertility and adoption benefits
Learn more about our benefits.
Skills Required
- BS or MS in Computer Science or a related technical field
- 8+ years of software engineering experience in object-oriented languages
- Extensive experience delivering cloud-native solutions using AWS
- Experience building AI-enabled systems or intelligent workflows
- Strong familiarity with modern AI engineering patterns
- Exceptional analytical, problem-solving, and system design skills
- Strong communication and influence skills across stakeholders
- Demonstrated commitment to engineering excellence
- Experience with shared platform capabilities or reusable engineering components
- Understanding of financial markets or asset management
T. Rowe Price Compensation & Benefits Highlights
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Retirement Support — Retirement offerings are positioned as a standout, including strong 401(k) matching/contributions and related long-term savings features. Employee stock purchase options are also cited as part of the overall rewards structure that adds value beyond base pay.
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Leave & Time Off Breadth — Time-off benefits are repeatedly framed as generous, including sizeable PTO allotments and multiple paid-leave categories. This breadth of leave is described as a meaningful component of the overall rewards package.
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Career-Linked Recognition & Rewards — Annual bonuses and performance-linked rewards are described as common components of total compensation. Tuition assistance and development support are also presented as rewards that reinforce longer-term career growth.
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What We Do
T. Rowe Price is an asset management firm focused on delivering global investment management excellence and retirement services that investors can rely on—now, and over the long term. Headquartered in Baltimore, Maryland, we provide an array of mutual funds, subadvisory services, separate account management, recordkeeping, and related services for individuals, advisors, institutions, and retirement plan sponsors. At T. Rowe Price, we believe in strategic investing. It has guided how we do business for more than 80 years, and it’s driven by independent thinking and rigorous research. So our clients can be confident that we’ll strive to select the right investments as we help them achieve their objectives. Strategic investing means that we don’t stop at surface level analysis. Instead, we go beyond the numbers. Our investment professionals travel the world, visiting the companies they evaluate. It’s this passion for exploration and understanding that has helped inform better decision-making and prudent risk management for our clients since its founding by Thomas Rowe Price Jr. in 1937.
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