Associate Engineer - AI

The Role

About Lord Abbett:

Founded in 1929, Lord Abbett is an independent firm with a singular focus on the management of money. Over the course of our history, we’ve earned a sterling reputation for our leadership, influence, and innovation in the asset management industry. Today, our independent perspective, our commitment to active management, and our intelligent product design continue to make us relevant to individual and institutional investors.

From the very beginning, we’ve recognized that our people are our greatest asset. As an investment-led, investor-focused firm, we value intellectual curiosity, teamwork, and collaboration across the organization.

We’re looking for people with a keen interest in working for a trusted leader in the asset management industry, a desire to expand their knowledge, and a passion for delivering a client experience that exceeds expectations.

  Now that you know our history, are you ready to be part of our future?

Job Overview:

Lord Abbett is at the forefront of innovation, leveraging cutting-edge AI technologies to drive our business forward. We are seeking a talented Associate Engineer to join our team and focus on building robust AI infrastructure. We value team members who are driven to achieve results, maintain high quality standards, and exhibit a flexible entrepreneurial spirit in the face of scope changes. You will be joining a fast-moving team that requires the ability to work autonomously while also collaborating closely with others.

We’ll trust you to:

Responsibilities include, but are not limited to:

• Develop and maintain AI infrastructure, including building pipelines with AWS.
• Implement and manage security controls to protect AI systems and data.
• Build orchestration layers in Python to support AI workflows.
• Address and mitigate AI hallucinations and validate AI outputs.
• Handle throttling issues and optimize the use of various AWS components.
• Collaborate with cross-functional teams to ensure seamless integration of AI solutions.
• Ability to work effectively with an established AI research team and utilize the tools provided.
• Stay updated with the latest advancements in AI infrastructure and technologies.

You'll need to have:

Qualifications: 

• Bachelor’s or master’s degree in computer science, Engineering, Physics, Math, or related work experience.
• Highly experienced candidate with a minimum of 2 years of expertise in application design, coding, testing, maintenance, and debugging.
• Proven experience with AWS and cloud infrastructure.
• Proficiency in Python for building orchestration layers.
• Experience with AI validation and addressing AI hallucinations.
• Strong understanding of security controls and best practices for AI systems.
• Skilled in developing Python APIs and writing code for loading and processing data.
• Experience with Git/GitHub.
• Experience with DevOps tools like Jira, Confluence, and CI/CD pipelines (Jenkins).
• Excellent problem-solving skills and attention to detail.
• Ability to work collaboratively in a team environment.

Skills:

• Strong analytical skills.
• Candidate must be willing to take full ownership of projects, covering discovery, analysis, technical design and implementation, testing, and deployment tasks.
• Must demonstrate good communication skills and be comfortable working closely with quantitative analysts, risk analysts and business partners.
• A strong desire to document and share work done to aid in long term support.
• Candidate must be a self-starter, a dependable partner, and team player.

Why Lord Abbett?

Lord Abbett is a leading global independent, privately held investment management company. We are active managers and invest where we believe we have a repeatable edge and can deliver alpha for our clients. Our vision is to be the most respected asset manager in the world, admired for our people, our performance, our relationships, and our organizational agility. This inspires the three pillars of our culture.

• Principles-Led - We empower our leaders to create an environment of trust.
• Performance-Oriented - We inspire our people to embody our values, excellence, responsibility, transparency & collaboration.
• Purpose-Driven - We instill a passion for always putting our clients' interests first. 

We are honored to have earned recognition as one of the Best Places to Work in Money Management by Pensions & Investments and scored 100% on the Human Rights Campaign’s Corporate Equality Index, a measure of LGBTQ workplace equality.  

Compensation Information: Annual base salary for this role is $120,000 - $150,000. Salary is estimated for this role. Actual pay may be different.

Discretionary Bonus: Role may be eligible to receive an annual discretionary bonus. Discretionary bonuses are determined by several factors including, but not limited to, firm, team, and individual performance. 

Benefits: Lord Abbett is committed to offering a competitive total rewards package to all eligible employees. Offerings include competitive total compensation, retirement plans, competitive health and well-being plans. To learn more about what we offer, please visit Careers | Lord Abbett

Lord Abbett is an equal employment opportunity employer. We are committed to providing equal employment opportunities to all qualified individuals without regard to the following legally protected characteristics: race, color, religion, sex, pregnancy, national origin, age, physical or mental disability, marital status, sexual orientation, sexual identity, caregiver status, military/veteran status, or any other characteristic protected by local, state or federal law. All employment decisions at Lord Abbett are based solely on the applicant’s relevant experience, skills and qualifications.

Important notice to Search Firms - Please Read CarefullyWithout prior written agreement, Lord Abbett does not accept unsolicited submissions from employment agencies, search firms, placement services, or any similar provider (“Search Firms”) for employment opportunities. All candidates submitted by Search Firms to any employee or partner at our company without a written Search Firm agreement in place will be deemed the sole property of our company. In such circumstances, no fee, commission, or other compensation will be paid to such Search Firm in the event a candidate is hired by our company. To the extent a Search Firm has a written agreement in place, all introductions are position specific and should be directed to HR or the hiring manager, so we kindly request no unsolicited phone calls or emails.

Salary : $120,000 - $150,000