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About This Role
The Opportunity
Join a team building the data foundations that support the firm’s AI and analytics capabilities. This role sits within the engineering effort to develop a modern Lakehouse and AI data platform that enables reliable, well\-governed and high\-performing data use across the firm.
At Goldman Sachs, engineering teams are positioned at the center of the business, building scalable systems, solving complex technical problems and turning data into action. In data engineering roles, the emphasis is on designing, building and maintaining large\-scale data platforms, delivering production pipelines, improving reliability and quality, and partnering closely with users of the platform.
This is a delivery\-focused role for engineers who want to build robust data assets in production, work with modern data technologies, and grow over time within the firm. You will contribute to the data models, pipelines and platform capabilities that underpin analytics, operational decision\-making and emerging AI use cases, and may also help extend platform tooling where additional functionality is needed.
Role Summary
As a Data Engineer in the Lakehouse and AI Data Platform team, you will design, build, test and support data pipelines and curated datasets on the firm’s modern data platform. You will work across ingestion, transformation, modelling, optimization and data quality, helping to deliver data products that are reliable, scalable and fit for purpose. Where there are gaps in platform functionality, you may also contribute to shared tooling or framework components that improve how the platform is used and operated.
The role is suited to engineers who are comfortable writing code, working with SQL and distributed data processing, and solving practical delivery problems in a team environment. More experienced candidates may also contribute to technical design, platform standards and the shaping of delivery approaches across a wider set of use cases.
Key Responsibilities
Pipeline Engineering
- Build, enhance and support batch and streaming data pipelines on the Lakehouse and AI data platform.
- Refactor or modernize existing data flows where needed to improve reliability, performance and maintainability.
- Where needed, build reusable tooling to improve delivery, consistency and operational support.
- Ensure data pipelines are production\-ready, well tested and operationally supportable.
Data Modelling and Curation
- Develop raw, refined and curated datasets that support analytics, reporting and AI use cases.
- Apply sound data modelling principles to represent business entities, relationships and historical change accurately.
- Work with consumers to shape data products that are usable, well documented and aligned to business needs.
Data Quality and Reconciliation
- Implement controls to validate completeness, accuracy and consistency of data across pipelines and datasets.
- Use reconciliation approaches to build confidence in production outputs and investigate breaks where they arise.
- Contribute to clear standards for testing, monitoring and issue resolution.
- Contribute to practical improvements in testing, monitoring or reconciliation tooling where these strengthen platform reliability and day\-to\-day delivery.
Delivery and Partnership
- Work closely with engineers, platform teams and data consumers to deliver agreed outcomes to time and quality expectations.
- Communicate clearly on progress, risks, dependencies and design choices, including where delivery would benefit from improvements to shared platform tooling.
- For more senior candidates, take a broader role in technical leadership, task breakdown and support for junior engineers.
Skills and Experience
Required
- 7\-12\+ years of experience
- Bachelor’s or master’s degree in a relevant discipline, or equivalent practical experience, with evidence of strong quantitative skills or data engineering expertise.
- Strong hands\-on programming experience in Python or Java.
- Good working knowledge of SQL, including troubleshooting, optimization and data analysis.
- Ability to learn new tools, internal platforms and delivery workflows quickly.
- Familiarity with software engineering fundamentals, including version control, testing, release discipline and CI/CD practices.
Data Engineering Capability
- Understanding of temporal data modelling, including the handling of historical state and change over time.
- Knowledge of schema design, schema evolution and data compatibility considerations.
- Understanding of partitioning, clustering and other techniques used to improve data performance at scale.
- Ability to make sensible design choices across normalized and deformalized models, and between natural and surrogate keys.
- Practical approach to data quality, reconciliation and root\-cause analysis.
- Experience building or supporting production data pipelines in a collaborative engineering environment.
- Experience working with distributed data processing frameworks such as Apache Spark.
- Working knowledge of common data formats such as JSON, Avro and Parquet.
- Stronger ownership of technical design across multiple datasets or pipeline domains.
- Experience guiding implementation standards, code quality and engineering practices within a team.
- Ability to lead delivery for a workstream, manage dependencies and support less experienced engineers.
Technology Environment
The role will involve working with a modern and evolving data stack. Candidates are not expected to have deep expertise in every tool from day one but should bring relevant experience and the ability to work across comparable technologies.
Examples of technologies in scope include:
- Data processing and logic: ANSI SQL, Apache Spark, Kafka
- Data formats: JSON, Avro, Parquet
- Platforms and storage: Snowflake, Apache Iceberg, Databricks, Hadoop ecosystem technologies, Sybase IQ
- Engineering and deployment: CI/CD tooling, containerized or Kubernetes\-based deployment approaches where relevant
You will also work with internal data management and platform tooling, so a practical and adaptable engineering mindset is important.
What We Are Looking For
We are looking for engineers who can deliver well\-structured, reliable solutions in production and who take ownership of the quality of what they build. The role suits candidates who are technically strong, pragmatic and comfortable working in a fast\-paced environment where data platforms support important business outcomes.
Stronger candidates will typically demonstrate:
- sound judgement in technical trade\-offs
- attention to detail in data correctness and testing
- a clear and structured approach to problem solving
- willingness to work closely with stakeholders and partner teams
- an interest in developing long\-term expertise within the firm
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.
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Opportunity Overview
CORPORATE TITLEVice President
OFFICE LOCATION(S)Dallas
JOB FUNCTIONSoftware Engineering
DIVISIONEngineering Division
Role Details
About This Role
AI Software Engineers build the applications and systems that AI models run inside. They own the API layers, data pipelines, frontend integrations, and infrastructure that turn a model into a product users interact with. Every AI company needs engineers who can build the software around the AI.
The challenge is building reliable systems around inherently unreliable components. Models are probabilistic. They'll give different answers to the same question. They hallucinate. They're slow. They're expensive. Your job is to build an application layer that handles all of this gracefully while delivering a product that users trust and enjoy.
Across the 4,317 AI roles we're tracking, AI Software Engineer positions make up 7% of the market. At Goldman Sachs, this role fits into their broader AI and engineering organization.
AI Software Engineer roles are among the most numerous in the AI job market. Every company deploying AI needs software engineers who understand AI integration patterns. The demand is broad, spanning startups to enterprises, across every industry adopting AI capabilities.
What the Work Looks Like
A typical week includes: building API endpoints that serve model inference with caching and fallback logic, designing the data pipeline that feeds context to a RAG system, implementing streaming responses in the frontend, debugging a race condition in the async inference pipeline, and optimizing database queries for the vector search layer. It's full-stack engineering with AI at the center.
AI Software Engineer roles are among the most numerous in the AI job market. Every company deploying AI needs software engineers who understand AI integration patterns. The demand is broad, spanning startups to enterprises, across every industry adopting AI capabilities.
Skills Required
Full-stack engineering skills with AI integration experience. Python and TypeScript are the most common requirements. You'll need to understand API design, database architecture, and how to build reliable systems around probabilistic outputs. Experience with streaming, async processing, and caching patterns is increasingly important as real-time AI applications proliferate.
Knowledge of vector databases, embedding APIs, and LLM integration patterns (function calling, structured outputs, retry logic) differentiates AI software engineers from general software engineers. Understanding cost optimization (caching strategies, model routing, batched inference) is valuable since inference costs can dominate application economics.
Strong postings describe the product you'll be building, the AI integration patterns you'll work with, and the scale requirements. Look for companies that have existing AI features and need engineers to improve and expand them, not companies that are 'planning to add AI' someday.
Compensation Benchmarks
AI Software Engineer roles pay a median of $218,500 based on 729 positions with disclosed compensation.
Across all AI roles, the market median is $215,000. Top-quartile compensation starts at $266,300. The 90th percentile reaches $320,790. For comparison, the highest-paying categories include AI Safety ($287,500) and Research Engineer ($272,100). By seniority level: Entry: $110,000; Mid: $194,400; Senior: $227,400; Director: $274,554; VP: $241,000.
Goldman Sachs AI Hiring
Goldman Sachs has 3 open AI roles right now. They're hiring across AI/ML Engineer, AI Software Engineer. Positions span New York, NY, US, Dallas, TX, US. Compensation range: $140K - $300K.
Location Context
Across all AI roles, 15% (635 positions) offer remote work, while 3,657 require on-site attendance. Top AI hiring metros: New York (1,650 roles, $220,000 median); San Francisco (1,335 roles, $265,000 median); Los Angeles (708 roles, $214,112 median).
Career Path
Common paths into AI Software Engineer roles include Software Engineer, Full-Stack Developer, Backend Engineer.
From here, career progression typically leads toward Staff Engineer, AI Architect, Engineering Manager.
If you're a software engineer, you're already 80% there. Learn the AI integration patterns: RAG, streaming inference, function calling, structured outputs. Build a project that demonstrates you can wrap an AI model in a production-quality application with proper error handling, caching, and user experience. That's the portfolio piece that gets you hired.
What to Expect in Interviews
Technical screens look like standard software engineering interviews with an AI twist. Expect system design questions about building reliable applications around probabilistic models: handling streaming responses, implementing retry logic for API failures, and designing caching strategies for LLM outputs. Coding rounds test standard algorithms plus practical integration patterns like async processing and rate limiting.
When evaluating opportunities: Strong postings describe the product you'll be building, the AI integration patterns you'll work with, and the scale requirements. Look for companies that have existing AI features and need engineers to improve and expand them, not companies that are 'planning to add AI' someday.
AI Hiring Overview
The AI job market has 4,317 open positions tracked in our dataset. By seniority: 138 entry-level, 2,071 mid-level, 1,655 senior, and 453 leadership roles (Director, VP, C-Level). Remote roles make up 15% of the market (635 positions). The remaining 3,657 roles require on-site or hybrid attendance.
The market median for AI roles is $215,000. Top-quartile compensation starts at $266,300. The 90th percentile reaches $320,790. Highest-paying categories: AI Safety ($287,500 median, 34 roles); Research Engineer ($272,100 median, 227 roles); AI Engineering Manager ($244,000 median, 23 roles).
AI Software Engineer roles are among the most numerous in the AI job market. Every company deploying AI needs software engineers who understand AI integration patterns. The demand is broad, spanning startups to enterprises, across every industry adopting AI capabilities.
The AI Job Market Today
The AI job market spans 4,317 open positions across 15 role categories. The largest categories by volume: AI/ML Engineer (3,004), Data Scientist (345), AI Software Engineer (309). These three account for the majority of open positions, though smaller categories often have higher per-role compensation because of specialized skill requirements.
The seniority mix tells a story about where AI teams are in their maturity. Entry-level roles (138) are outnumbered by mid-level (2,071) and senior (1,655) positions, reflecting that most companies are past the 'build a team from scratch' phase and need experienced engineers who can ship production systems. Leadership roles (Director, VP, C-Level) total 453 positions, representing the bottleneck between technical execution and organizational strategy.
Remote work availability sits at 15% of all AI roles (635 positions), with 3,657 requiring on-site or hybrid attendance. The remote share has stabilized after the post-pandemic correction. Senior and specialized roles (Research Scientist, ML Architect) are more likely to be remote-eligible than entry-level positions, partly because experienced hires have more negotiating power and partly because these roles require less hands-on mentorship.
AI compensation is structured in clear tiers. The market median sits at $215,000. Top-quartile roles start at $266,300, and the 90th percentile reaches $320,790. These figures include base salary with disclosed compensation. Total compensation (including equity, bonuses, and sign-on) runs 20-40% higher at companies that offer those components.
Category matters for compensation. AI Safety roles lead at $287,500 median, while Prompt Engineer roles sit at $145,000. The spread between highest and lowest-paying categories reflects the premium on specialized technical skills versus broader analytical roles.
The most in-demand skills across all AI postings: Python (2,249 postings), Aws (1,224 postings), Azure (938 postings), Rag (915 postings), Gcp (660 postings), Pytorch (640 postings), Prompt Engineering (624 postings), Kubernetes (559 postings). Python dominates, appearing in the vast majority of role descriptions regardless of category. Cloud platform experience (AWS, GCP, Azure) is the second most common requirement. The newer entrants to the top skills list (RAG, vector databases, LLM APIs) reflect the shift from traditional ML toward generative AI applications.
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