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Job Category Associate WHO WE ARE Goldman Sachs is a leading global investment banking securities and investment management firm that provides a wide range of services worldwide to a substantial and diversified client base that includes corporations financial institutions governments and high net-worth individuals Founded in 1869 it is one of the oldest and largest investment banking firms The firm is headquartered in New York and maintains offices in London Bangalore Frankfurt Tokyo Hong Kong and other major financial centres around the world We are committed to growing our distinctive Culture and holding to our core values which always place our client s interests first These values are reflected in our Business Principles which emphasise integrity commitment to excellence innovation and teamwork BUSINESS UNIT OVERVIEW Enterprise Technology Operations ETO is a Business Unit within Core Engineering focused on running scalable production management services with a mandate of operational excellence and operational risk reduction achieved through large scale automation best-in-class engineering and application of data science and machine learning The Production Runtime Experience PRX team in ETO applies software engineering and machine learning to production management services processes and activities to streamline monitoring alerting automation and workflows TEAM OVERVIEW The Machine Learning and Artificial Intelligence team in PRX applies advanced ML and GenAI to reduce the risk and cost of operating the firm s large-scale compute infrastructure and extensive application estate Building on strengths in statistical modelling anomaly detection predictive modelling and time-series forecasting we leverage foundational LLM Models to orchestrate multi-agent systems for automated production management services By unifying classical ML with agentic AI we deliver reliable explainable and cost-efficient operations at scale ROLE AND RESPONSIBILITIES In this role you will be responsible for launching and implementing GenAI agentic solutions aimed at reducing the risk and cost of managing large-scale production environments with varying complexities You will address various production runtime challenges by developing agentic AI solutions that can diagnose reason and take actions in production environments to improve productivity and address issues related to production support What you ll do Build agentic AI systems Design and implement tool-calling agents that combine retrieval structured reasoning and secure action execution function calling change orchestration policy enforcement following MCP protocol Engineer robust guardrails for safety compliance and least-privilege access Productionize LLMs Build evaluation framework for open-source and foundational LLMs implement retrieval pipelines prompt synthesis response validation and self-correction loops tailored to production operations Integrate with runtime ecosystems Connect agents to observability incident management and deployment systems to enable automated diagnostics runbook execution remediation and post-incident summarization with full traceability Collaborate directly with users Partner with production engineers and application teams to translate production pain points into agentic AI roadmaps define objective functions linked to reliability risk reduction and cost and deliver auditable business-aligned outcomes Safety reliability and governance Build validator models adversarial prompts and policy checks into the stack enforce deterministic fallbacks circuit breakers and rollback strategies instrument continuous evaluations for usefulness correctness and risk Scale and performance Optimize cost and latency via prompt engineering context management caching model routing and distillation leverage batching streaming and parallel tool-calls to meet stringent SLOs under real-world load Build a RAG pipeline Curate domain-knowledge build data-quality validation framework establish feedback loops and milestone framework maintain knowledge freshness Raise the bar Drive design reviews experiment rigor and high-quality engineering practices mentor peers on agent architectures evaluation methodologies and safe deployment patterns QUALIFICATIONS A Bachelor s degree Masters PhD preferred in a computational field Computer Science Applied Mathematics Engineering or in a related quantitative discipline with 5 years of experience as an applied data scientist machine learning engineer ESSENTIAL SKILLS 5 years of software development in one or more languages Python C C Go Java strong hands-on experience building and maintaining large-scale Python applications preferred 3 years designing architecting testing and launching production ML systems including model deployment serving evaluation and monitoring data processing pipelines and model fine-tuning workflows Practical experience with Large Language Models LLMs API integration prompt engineering fine-tuning adaptation and building applications using RAG and tool-using agents vector retrieval function calling secure tool execution Understanding of different LLMs both commercial and open source and their capabilities e g OpenAI Gemini Llama Qwen Claude Solid grasp of applied statistics core ML concepts algorithms and data structures to deliver efficient and reliable solutions Strong analytical problem-solving ownership and urgency ability to communicate complex ideas simply and collaborate effectively across global teams with a focus on measurable business impact Preferred Proficiency building and operating on cloud infrastructure ideally AWS including containerized services ECS EKS serverless Lambda data services S3 DynamoDB Redshift orchestration Step Functions model serving SageMaker and infra-as-code Terraform CloudFormation YOUR CAREER Goldman Sachs is a meritocracy where you will be given all the tools to advance your career At Goldman Sachs you will have access to excellent training programmes designed to improve multiple facets of your skill portfolio Our in-house training programme Goldman Sachs University offers a comprehensive series of courses that you will have access to as your career progresses Goldman Sachs University has an impressive catalogue of courses which span technical business and leadership skills ABOUT GOLDMAN SACHS At Goldman Sachs we commit our people capital and ideas to help our clients shareholders and the communities we serve to grow Founded in 1869 we are a leading global investment banking securities and investment management firm Headquartered in New York we maintain offices around the world We believe who you are makes you better at what you do We re committed to fostering and advancing diversity and inclusion in our own workplace and beyond by ensuring every individual within our firm has a number of opportunities to grow professionally and personally from our training and development opportunities and firmwide 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