As a leading financial services and healthcare technology company based on revenue, SS&C is headquartered in Windsor, Connecticut, and has 27,000+ employees in 35 countries. Some 20,000 financial services and healthcare organizations, from the world's largest companies to small and mid-market firms, rely on SS&C for expertise, scale, and technology.
Job Description
Senior AI Platform Engineer
Location: San Francisco, CA / Jacksonville, FL / Boston, MA / New York, NY (Hybrid)
Get To Know the Team
SS&C Advent's financial solutions are going Agentic! And we're growing the team to get us there. Our best-of-breed products that span the investment firm's front-to-back office will be part of the journey to digital transformation, which started with our cloud-native, award-winning Genesis Platform used by clients around the globe.
We are building a next-generation Agentic AI Framework that integrates Model Context Protocol (MCP), Agent-to-Agent (A2A) communication, Machine Learning, and advanced orchestration on top of our enterprise big data platform.
We are looking for Senior AI Platform Engineers to join our R&D team. These engineers will design and implement the core AI framework, ensuring it seamlessly integrates with our big data infrastructure, and enabling scalable, intelligent, and autonomous data-driven systems.
Why You Will Love It Here!
- Flexibility: Hybrid Work Model & a Business Casual Dress Code, including jeans
- Your Future: 401 (k) Matching Program, Professional Development Reimbursement
- Work/Life Balance: Flexible Personal/Vacation Time Off, Sick Leave, Paid Holidays
- Your Wellbeing: Medical, Dental, Vision, Employee Assistance Program, Parental Leave
- Wide Ranging Perspectives: Committed to Celebrating the Variety of Backgrounds, Talents, and Experiences of Our Employees
- Training: Hands-On, Team-Customized, including SS&C University
- Extra Perks: Discounts on fitness clubs, travel, and more!
What You Will Get to Do
- Design and build a scalable Agentic AI framework on top of our data platform.
- Implement MCP- and A2A-based architectures for agent collaboration and orchestration.
- Integrate AI services with data pipelines (Airflow, Spark, Trino, StarRocks, DBT).
- Build APIs, SDKs, and tooling to enable other teams to use the framework.
- Work with platform and application teams to ensure secure, reliable, and multi-tenant deployment of AI agents.
- Evaluate new agentic AI, LLM, and orchestration technologies and recommend adoption.
- Mentor other engineers and contribute to AI engineering best practices.
What You Will Bring
Core Skills (Must-Have)
- Strong programming skills in Python with 5+ years of experience
- Proven experience with data engineering or distributed systems (Spark, Hive, Trino, StarRocks, DBT, Airflow, Kubernetes).
- Deep understanding of LLM-based systems and agent frameworks (LangChain, LlamaIndex, DSPy, OpenAI MCP, A2A).
- Hands-on experience with API design & integration (REST, GraphQL, gRPC).
- Knowledge of cloud infrastructure & container orchestration (Kubernetes, Docker).
- Strong understanding of IAM, security, and multi-tenancy in enterprise systems.
- Track record of building production-grade AI/data platforms.
Desired Skills (Nice-to-Have)
- Experience in Information Security.
- Experience with vector databases (pgvector, Pinecone, Weaviate, Milvus, Vespa).
- Familiarity with event-driven architectures (Kafka, Pulsar).
- Understanding of retrieval-augmented generation (RAG) patterns.
- Background in authorization/identity systems (ReBAC, RBAC, Zanzibar-style).
- Familiarity with observability (OpenTelemetry, DataHub, MLflow, Prometheus).
- Experience in enterprise AI governance (audit, lineage, compliance).
- Contributions to open-source AI frameworks (LangChain, OpenAI MCP, Hugging Face, etc.).
Thank you for your interest in SS&C! To further explore this opportunity, please apply through our careers page on the corporate website at https://www.ssctech.com/careers/join-ssc
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SS&C offers excellent benefits including health, dental, 401k plan, tuition and professional development reimbursement plan.SS&C Technologies is an Equal Employment Opportunity employer and does not discriminate against any applicant for employment or employee on the basis of race, color, religious creed, gender, age, marital status, sexual orientation, national origin, disability, veteran status or any other classification protected by applicable discrimination laws.
Salary is determined by various factors including, but not limited to, relevant work experience, job related knowledge, skills, abilities, business needs, and geographic regions.NY: Salary range for the position: 150,000 USD to 180,000 USD. California: Salary range for the position: 150,000 USD to 180,000 USD.Top Skills
What We Do
SS&C is a global provider of investment and financial services and software for the financial services and healthcare industries. Named to Fortune 1000 list as top U.S. company based on revenue, SS&C is headquartered in Windsor, Connecticut and has 22,000+ employees in over 150 offices in 35 countries. Some 18,000 financial services and healthcare organizations, from the world's largest institutions to local firms, manage and account for their investments using SS&C's products and services.
