Sr. AI Software Engineer

Role Summary

As a Sr. AI Software Engineer on the Global Marketing and Digital Enablement team, you will be responsible for designing, developing, modifying, and implementing innovative solutions to address both immediate and long-term information technology needs. This includes working with new and existing applications, systems, databases, and infrastructure.

You will play a key role in creating and deploying autonomous AI systems, partnering with cross-functional squads, supporting the Build-Operate-Transfer process, and helping scale responsible AI solutions across the organization.

Your responsibilities will include reviewing and interpreting system requirements, analyzing business processes, and coding, testing, debugging, and implementing robust software solutions.

This role is well suited for engineers with strong software fundamentals passionate about solving complex problems, building reliable systems, collaborating across disciplines, and contributing to the standards and practices that shape the next generation of software engineering at T. Rowe Price.

Responsibilities

• Lead projects or work streams, providing guidance and expertise to your team.
• Take ownership of your work and, at times, oversee the work of others, offering advice on processes and standards within your area of specialization.
• Work independently, serving as a resource for colleagues with less experience.
• Design, build, test, and deploy AI agents and intelligent systems for modern, cloud-based, n-tier architectures.
• Partner with business stakeholders to develop agent-driven workflows that automate complex processes and deliver actionable insights.
• Promote engineering excellence by applying best practices in AI development, continuous integration, and code quality.
• Contribute to projects focused on agent orchestration, prompt engineering, and real-time, data-driven automation.
• Manage technical debt and drive ongoing improvements in AI platforms and infrastructure.
• Proactively identify opportunities to leverage AI agents for increased business value and operational efficiency.
• Serve as a domain expert throughout the software lifecycle (coding, testing, deployment), leading significant components of development projects.
• Help develop and promote standard methodologies within your group.
• Lead code reviews and actively provide feedback on designs and code.
• Take responsibility for technical debt in your own work.
• Lead small project teams as needed.
• Tackle complex problems systematically and make tactical versus strategic trade-offs.
• Adapt solutions as new information or ideas emerge.
• Mentor junior team members, providing support and building their confidence.
• Support colleagues with suggestions to improve practices and processes.

Business Knowledge

• Collaborate closely with business stakeholders and product owners to understand priorities, shape solution direction, and deliver practical outcomes.
• Bring a strong product mindset to technical decision-making, balancing innovation, scalability, risk, and long-term maintainability.
• Operate effectively in a highly collaborative environment where engineers work side by side with cross-functional partners to solve meaningful business problems.

Qualifications

Required:

• Bachelor’s or Master’s degree in Computer Science or a related technical field, or equivalent practical experience.
• 5+ years of professional software engineering experience building applications in an object-oriented language such as Java, Python, or JavaScript.
• Hands-on experience with cloud-native architectures, containerized microservices, and modern software delivery practices.
• Hands-on experience designing, developing, and deploying AI/ML-enabled software solutions in a production environment.
• Proficiency with Python and common AI/ML frameworks and libraries.
• Experience integrating AI capabilities, APIs, or models into enterprise applications.
• Understanding of software engineering best practices, including testing, scalability, security, and maintainability for AI-enabled systems.
• Hands on experience with AI-enabled systems, intelligent workflows, and emerging automation technologies.
• Experience building or contributing to production or near-production applications, platforms, or intelligent workflows in complex enterprise environments.
• Familiarity with modern engineering patterns such as API integration, event-driven services, observability, monitoring, and scalable system design.
• Strong analytical, problem-solving, and software design skills.
• Commitment to engineering quality through automated testing, code reviews, observability, and continuous delivery.
• Strong collaboration and communication skills, with the ability to work across engineering and business teams to shape effective solutions.
• A product mindset, learning agility, and comfort operating in a fast-evolving technology landscape.

Preferred:

• Experience contributing to reusable platform components or shared engineering capabilities.
• Experience with React and/or Angular.
• 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.

WHAT TO EXPECT AFTER APPLYING
1. You will receive an email and text message to answer a few questions to verify your eligibility. If you apply for multiple jobs, you will receive separate invitations for each role and will need to respond to each. Estimated Time Commitment: 3-5 minutes

2. If you are eligible, you will be asked to record video responses to introductory questions with our vendor partner, HireVue. Take time to read all instructions carefully before responding. Some questions may require you to respond within a set time limit, or with limited retakes. You can use this opportunity to tell us more about your background and interest than we can learn from a resume alone. Estimated Time Commitment: 20-30 minutes

Base Salary Ranges

Please review the job posting for the location of this specific opportunity.

$121,000.00 - $206,000.00 for the location of: Maryland, Colorado, Washington and remote workers
$133,000.00 - $227,000.00 for the location of: Washington, D.C.
$151,000.00 - $258,000.00 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

T. Rowe Price is an equal opportunity employer and values diversity of thought, gender, and race. We believe our continued success depends upon the equal treatment of all associates and applicants for employment without discrimination on the basis of race, religion, creed, color, national origin, sex, gender, age, mental or physical disability, marital status, sexual orientation, gender identity or expression, citizenship status, military or veteran status, pregnancy, or any other classification protected by country, federal, state, or local law.