A Career with Point72’s AI/ML – Investment Services Team

The AI/ML – Investment Services team at Point72 spearheads the development of cutting-edge AI solutions that seek to transform our business processes and enhance enterprise intelligence. The team aims to bridge the gap between business challenges and technological innovation, collaborating with stakeholders across the firm and leveraging expertise in generative AI, data engineering, and machine learning.

What You’ll Do

• Architect, develop, and maintain high-throughput data pipelines in Databricks and AWS (Glue, EMR, Fargate, Step Functions)
  • Ingest, normalize, and enrich large volumes of structured and unstructured data including internal data, market data, third-party/vendor feeds, document repositories, and alternative data sources
  • Collaborate with AI Engineers, ML scientists, and software engineers to translate model and product requirements into scalable data architecture, schemas, and APIs
  • Optimize pipeline performance (compute, storage, network) and cost by leveraging distributed processing techniques (Spark, Delta, Arrow) and AWS best practices (spot fleets, autoscaling)
  • Enforce data governance, privacy, and lineage standards, cataloging assets in Unity Catalog, managing PII/PCI classification, and implementing fine-grained access controls with Immuta/Ranger/IAM
  • Build automated validation, testing, and monitoring frameworks to guarantee data quality, freshness, and drift detection for both offline and online workloads
  • Support the onboarding and integration of new external data vendors, ensuring contractual compliance, metadata management, and rapid time-to-value for relevant teams
  • Continuously evaluate emerging GenAI tooling (vector stores, LLMOps platforms, synthetic-data generators) and drive proof-of-concepts that enhance our data engineering capabilities

What’s Required

• Bachelor’s or master’s degree in computer science or engineering
• 3+ years of experience in data engineering or related field 
• Strong experience in Python development
• Experience with Spark or Scala
• Proficiency in building scalable, distributed data pipelines in a cloud environment
• Solid understanding of data architecture principles, data modeling, and data warehousing
• Ability to devise novel and innovative solutions to challenges
• Knowledge of/experience with graph databases is a plus
• Commitment to the highest ethical standards

We take care of our people

We invest in our people, their careers, their health, and their well-being. We want you to concentrate on success and leave the rest to us. When you work here, we provide:

• Sports card
• Private life insurance
• Private medical and dental care, with vision allowance
• Private pension scheme
• Volunteer opportunities
• Support for employee-led affinity groups representing women, people of color and the LGBTQ+ community
• Business travel accident insurance
• Employee assistance program
• Educational assistance reimbursement

About Point72

Point72 is a leading global alternative investment firm led by Steven A. Cohen. Building on more than 30 years of investing experience, Point72 seeks to deliver superior returns for its investors through fundamental and systematic investing strategies across asset classes and geographies. We aim to attract and retain the industry’s brightest talent by cultivating an investor-led culture and committing to our people’s long-term growth. For more information, visit https://point72.com/.

AI Engineer

A Career with Point72’s COO Team

The AI Engineer, Investment Services will be responsible for exploring opportunities to develop and build potential solutions that leverage GenAI and Machine Learning in an effort to deliver innovative, GenAI driven products that seek to enhance the firm's business processes and enterprise intelligence. 

You will play a unique role by designing and implementing advanced GenAI/ML techniques and applications to solve key business problems across various departments with an aim to enhance operational intelligence, efficiency, and decision-making capabilities. This includes building prototypes to prove out the potential value of proposed AI solutions and transforming successful prototypes into robust, production-grade capabilities to enable opportunities for broad value creation for the firm. 

Your projects will span both on-premises and AWS environments, leveraging technologies such as Kafka, Spark, Cloud warehouses, and Data Lakes, and employing programming languages like Python, Java, and SQL.  

As part of the AI/ML community at Point72, our teams collaborate horizontally with one another and vertically with our AI Platform and Data Teams, and Compliance to define the AI Strategy for the firm including its infrastructure, architecture, models, and data needs.  This position offers immediate impact and growth opportunities, allowing you to apply your skills while advancing in modern AI integration and engineering.

What you’ll do

• Identify opportunities and develop technical roadmaps for GenAI solutions 
• Scope, prioritize, prototype and deliver GenAI projects to help solve key business problems for Point72’s Investment Services teams. Your work/projects will span both on-premises and AWS environments, leverage technologies such as Kafka, Spark, Cloud warehouses, and Data Lakes, and use programming languages such as Java, Python, and SQL 
• Lead collaborations across the firm, where appropriate, on GenAI/ML initiatives and techniques 
• Deliver analytics and insights to measure the value of solutions delivered 
• Partner with groups across the firm such as Technology and Compliance on GenAI initiatives 
• Partner internally to establish rigorous model governance practices, including testing, monitoring, and documentation to ensure solutions remain accurate and bias-free  
• Stay up to date on AI/ML market landscape, trends, and technological innovations to provide recommendations on new tools and methodologies for adoption  

What’s required

• Bachelor's degree in computer science, engineering, or related field  
• Minimum 5+ years of professional experience 
• Demonstrated success leveraging AI/ML to drive/improve business outcomes 
• The ability to develop, own, and provide technical leadership over AI solutions, including model selection, fine-tuning, and ideally model development 
• Excellent written and verbal communication skills  
• Commitment to the highest ethical standards  

We take care of our people

We invest in our people, their careers, their health, and their well-being. When you work here, we provide:

• Fully-paid health care benefits
• Generous parental and family leave policies
• Mental and physical wellness programs
• Volunteer opportunities
• Non-profit matching gift program
• Support for employee-led affinity groups representing women, minorities and the LGBT+ community
• Tuition assistance
• A 401(k) savings program with an employer match and more

About Point72

Point72 Asset Management is a global firm led by Steven Cohen that invests in multiple asset classes and strategies worldwide. Resting on more than a quarter-century of investing experience, we seek to be the industry’s premier asset manager through delivering superior risk-adjusted returns, adhering to the highest ethical standards, and offering the greatest opportunities to the industry’s brightest talent. We’re inventing the future of finance by revolutionizing how we develop our people and how we use data to shape our thinking. For more information, visit www.Point72.com/working-here

The annual base salary range for this role is $175,000-$225,000 (USD) , which does not include discretionary bonus compensation or our comprehensive benefits package. Actual compensation offered to the successful candidate may vary from posted hiring range based upon geographic location, work experience, education, and/or skill level, among other things.