Engineering-L2-Hyderabad-Vice President-Software Engineering

Summary

The agile AI Innovation Acceleration team will operate with the speed and spirit of a startup, focused on rapidly prototyping and building cutting-edge AI use cases that directly address the critical needs of our businesses. The primary goal of this team is to demonstrate the transformative potential of AI within the firm, rapidly deliver impactful solutions, and then seamlessly transfer the code, knowledge, and ownership to the respective business and engineering teams. This hands-on engineering role is pivotal in shaping the future of AI adoption at Goldman Sachs and fostering a culture of innovation and accelerated development.

As an AI Innovation Acceleration Specialist, you will be instrumental in identifying, developing, and deploying end-to-end AI/Machine Learning solutions that drive tangible business value; you will work in a fast-paced environment, leveraging your expertise to translate complex business challenges and customer needs into actionable AI architectures and technical specifications, and then implement and deliver these systems.

Key Responsibilities

• Rapid Prototyping & End-to-End Development: Lead the end-to-end development of AI/ML models and applications, from ideation and data exploration to rapid prototyping and initial deployment.
• Business Partnership & Solution Architecture: Collaborate closely with business and engineering teams to deeply understand their challenges and customer needs, identify high-impact AI use cases, and translate business requirements into robust technical specifications and solution architectures.
• Solution Implementation & Delivery: Architect, implement, and deliver scalable, robust, and maintainable AI solutions based on defined technical specifications and architectures, ensuring seamless integration with existing systems and workflows within the Goldman Sachs ecosystem.
• Knowledge Transfer & Enablement: Facilitate effective knowledge transfer through comprehensive documentation, training sessions, mentorship, and pair-programming, empowering receiving teams to take ownership and continue the development of AI solutions.
• Technology & Innovation Leadership: Stay abreast of the latest advancements in AI, machine learning, and relevant technologies, continuously evaluating and recommending new tools, techniques, and best practices to drive innovation.

Qualifications

• Bachelor's or Master's degree in Computer Science, Data Science, or a related quantitative field.
• 5+ years of hands-on experience in AI/ML development, with a proven track record of delivering end-to-end AI solutions in a professional setting.
• Demonstrated experience building and deploying end-to-end AI applications, particularly those leveraging LLMs and related frameworks.This includes experience with prompt engineering, fine-tuning, Retrieval Augmented Generation (RAG), and agentic frameworks.
• Strong proficiency in programming languages such as Python, along with relevant AI/ML frameworks (e.g., TensorFlow, PyTorch).
• Proven ability to translate complex business requirements and customer needs into well-defined technical architectures and specifications, and to subsequently implement and deliver robust systems based on these designs.
• Experience with cloud platforms (e.g., AWS, Azure, GCP) and MLOps practices for model deployment and management.
• Excellent communication capabilities, with the ability to articulate complex technical concepts to both technical and non-technical stakeholders across all levels of the organization.
• Strong collaboration and interpersonal skills, with a passion for mentoring and enabling others.
• Proven ability to lead or significantly contribute to cross-functional projects.

ABOUT GOLDMAN SACHS

The Goldman Sachs Group, Inc. is a leading global investment banking, securities and investment management firm that provides a wide range of financial services to a substantial and diversified client base that includes corporations, financial institutions, governments and individuals. Founded in 1869, the firm is headquartered in New York and maintains offices in all major financial centers around the world.

We Offer Best-In-Class Benefits

Healthcare & Medical Insurance

We offer a wide range of health and welfare programs that vary depending on office location. These generally include medical, dental, short-term disability, long-term disability, life, accidental death, labor accident and business travel accident insurance.

Holiday & Vacation Policies

We offer competitive vacation policies based on employee level and office location. We promote time off from work to recharge by providing generous vacation entitlements and a minimum of three weeks expected vacation usage each year.

Financial Wellness & Retirement

We assist employees in saving and planning for retirement, offer financial support for higher education, and provide a number of benefits to help employees prepare for the unexpected. We offer live financial education and content on a variety of topics to address the spectrum of employees' priorities.

Health Services

We offer a medical advocacy service for employees and family members facing critical health situations, and counseling and referral services through the Employee Assistance Program (EAP). We provide Global Medical, Security and Travel Assistance and a Workplace Ergonomics Program. We also offer state-of-the-art on-site health centers in certain offices.

Fitness

To encourage employees to live a healthy and active lifestyle, some of our offices feature on-site fitness centers. For eligible employees we typically reimburse fees paid for a fitness club membership or activity (up to a pre-approved amount).

Child Care & Family Care

We offer on-site child care centers that provide full-time and emergency back-up care, as well as mother and baby rooms and homework rooms. In every office, we provide advice and counseling services, expectant parent resources and transitional programs for parents returning from parental leave. Adoption, surrogacy, egg donation and egg retrieval stipends are also available.

Benefits at Goldman Sachs

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Opportunity Overview
CORPORATE TITLE
Vice President
OFFICE LOCATION(S)
Hyderabad
JOB FUNCTION
Software Engineering
DIVISION
Engineering Division