AI Product Engineer

At BBH, Partnership is more than a form of ownership—it’s our approach to business and relationships.  We know that supporting your professional and personal goals is the best way to help our clients and advance our business. We take that responsibility seriously. With a 200-year legacy and a shared passion for what’s next, this is the right place to build a fulfilling career.

Role Overview

Brown Brothers Harriman is currently recruiting an AI Product Engineer to join our fast-paced Innovation team! In this role you will work as part of a high-performance team responsible for the discovery of new digital products, services, and businesses from idea through Minimum Valuable Product.

The AI Product Engineer will be tasked to work closely with our business stakeholders to ideate, validate, design and build prototypes for AI-powered products, in our newly created innovation lab. Strong cross-functional communication skills are a must as the successful candidate will work in a multi-disciplinary squad format with the goal to prototype and validate concepts, then present their work and finding to a group of senior leaders.

Our aim is to leverage both ML and LLMs to address problems that are currently unsolved in our industry, and we consequently look for forward-thinking and perseverant individuals who also can explain complicated concepts in clear language to subject-matter experts. We focus on gathering evidence before making decisions, and this role will be critical in that context. 

The successful candidate will:

• Participate in the collaborative definition of the vision for new products, services or businesses.
• Continuously iterate solution concepts using all manner of methods, from architecture diagrams to technical proof-of-concepts and full-fledged prototypes.
• Help build an AI center of excellence within our team, through training, process refinement, experimentation and evaluation.

Responsibilities:

• How might we build AI systems that prevents hallucinations from becoming a factor in our regulated environment?
• How might we implement AI agents in particularly secure and sensitive contexts with confidence?
• How do we build self-healing systems that improve over time?
• How do we evaluate the tradeoffs between multiple AI implementation options?

Job Requirements

• Deep understanding of ML and LLM pipelines. This includes fine-tuning, GenAI, RAG, but also data science algorithms, data-structure, knowledge graphs best practices and their integration into business processes.
• Proficiency in writing clean and efficient code and deploying services on cloud computing platforms, and familiarity with AI/ML libraries and tools.
• Strong understanding of the Product Development Lifecycle, to adjust experiments and knowledge sharing sessions in response to the current stages of our concepts.
• Continuously evaluate the models being published and the techniques being shared in the AI ecosystem.
• Support internal knowledge sharing about AI current trends and practice, so the team is also up to date with the market capabilities.
• Have stellar communication skills, especially the ability to deeply listen and clearly explain.
• Bonus: Strong knowledge of the Azure AI Platform and/or LLM Orchestration and observability.

Desired Experience

• 3 years of professional experience in Product-focused Engineering and/or AI Engineering, with a track-record of products delivered to the market.
• Practical experience in designing, implementing, deploying and analyzing state-of-the-art models and/or expertise in explainability methods.
• Experience and understanding of digital product and service design and development, working within, or alongside an innovation or product team.
• Have demonstrated end-to-end ownership of projects.

We value diverse experiences. We value diverse experiences and transferrable skillsets. If your career hasn’t followed a traditional path, includes alternative experiences, or doesn’t meet every qualification or skill listed in the job description, please do go ahead and apply.

About BBH:

Brown Brothers Harriman (BBH) is a premier global financial services firm, known for premium service, specialist expertise, technology solutions and partnership approach to client management. Across Investor Services and Capital Partners, we work with an enviable roster of sophisticated clients who make BBH their first call when they are tackling their hardest challenges. Delivering for our clients and each other energizes us.

We believe that how we do our work is just as important as what we do. We are relentless problem solvers who know our best ideas come from collective debate and development—so we are never possessive about our ideas. Every day we come together as a diverse community of smart and caring people to deliver exceptional service and expert advice—creating success that lasts. No matter where you sit in the organization, everyone is empowered to contribute their ideas. BBHers can pick up the phone and call any colleague, and they are happy to help. Expanding your impact beyond your daily role is part of how we operate as trusted partners to one another. 

We believe stability is a competitive advantage, but being stable means having the knowledge, skill, and discipline to evolve, often—pushing the boundaries of innovation.  As a private partnership, every investment we make is in the relationships, technologies, products and development we believe are in the long-term interests of our clients and our people. Our long-tenured leaders are experts in their areas and are actively involved in the day-to day business, taking the time to provide guidance and mentoring to build the next generation of BBHers. Because we know, our success begins with yours.

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