Capital Group is looking to solve the problem of shaping how investment professionals consume information, make decisions, and understand markets through the development of AI/ML capabilities.
Requirements
- Experience leading engineering teams that build and operate ML-driven products or platforms at scale
- Strong partnership instincts with Product—comfortable shaping strategy, co-owning roadmaps, and aligning technical investment with business priorities
- Deep understanding of software engineering fundamentals: OO and functional design, distributed systems, cloud architecture, testing, and operational excellence
- Hands-on experience developing and/or integrating ML and LLM-based systems (RAG pipelines, embeddings, evaluation frameworks, orchestration, data integrations)
- Ability to navigate ambiguity, connect details to high-level strategy, and synthesize complex information into actionable direction
- Strong communication skills: clear, structured, concise, and effective across technical and business audiences
- Exposure to investment workflows, financial data, or high-stakes, data-intensive enterprise environments
Responsibilities
- Lead an engineering organization responsible for designing, building, and operating AI/ML capabilities
- Guide a team that builds foundational platform components—LLM integrations, retrieval pipelines, evaluation frameworks, classification and summarization systems
- Set direction, guide architectural choices, elevate engineering quality, and ensure the team delivers production-ready solutions with reliability and rigor
- Partner closely with the Product team throughout the entire lifecycle: co-developing long-term vision, shaping the roadmap, exploring opportunities, rapidly validating ideas, and executing against shared goals
- Create the conditions for engineers and managers to explore new ideas, investigate emerging technologies, generate insights, and contribute to thought leadership across the firm
- Lead engineering execution across distributed systems, ML pipelines, LLM-based architectures, and integration layers
- Translate high-level goals into clear and actionable technical plans, while ensuring solutions are reliable, maintainable, and production-ready
Other
- Bachelor's degree or higher in a relevant field
- Ability to work in a fast-paced environment and adapt to changing priorities
- Strong leadership and management skills, with the ability to motivate and develop team members
- Excellent communication and interpersonal skills, with the ability to work effectively with cross-functional teams
- Ability to travel up to 10% of the time
