Applied AI Engineering Director for Banking Technology at Citi
Jersey City, NJ
$170,000–$300,000from the description
Aug 2, 2026
Jersey City, NJ
Nov 9, 2026
What this job asks for AI summary
A director-level role at Citi leading the design, development, and deployment of AI-first solutions for the Banking division (Investment, Corporate, and Commercial Banking). The position combines hands-on AI engineering — LLMs, RAG, agentic AI, NLP, ML pipelines — with team leadership, roadmap ownership, and direct engagement with senior bankers to embed AI tooling into front-office workflows such as deal origination, pitch automation, and client intelligence.
Principal level · 15+ years · New York-Newark-Jersey City, NY-NJ-PA · Bachelor's required · Full-time
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How this req sits in the market our data
Roughly 20 people in the New York-Newark-Jersey City, NY-NJ-PA area plausibly meet what this posting asks for (computer and information systems managers). range 8–35
Applicant volume Light — Few people clear these requirements, so an application that does clear them gets looked at. Worth applying to even if you miss a nice-to-have.
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What the occupation pays Median $220,035 (middle half $175,731–$291,850). This posting is about at that midpoint.
Estimated from BLS employment for this occupation and area, per-skill prevalence across our listing corpus, and published wage benchmarks — as of Aug 4, 2026. It is a model, not a headcount.
Why we read it this way (7)
The title in the posting is inconsistent — the header says 'Applied AI Engineering Director' while the body says 'Applied AI Engineering Senior Lead'; the role is treated here as a director/principal-level people-management position given the explicit team-building, recruiting, and mentoring responsibilities.
SOC classification is a genuine judgment call: the role has substantial hands-on AI/ML engineering expectations (pointing toward 15-2051 Data Scientists) but its primary framing is team leadership, roadmap ownership, and org-level accountability, which aligns with 11-3021 Computer and Information Systems Managers.
LangGraph and Google ADK are listed together as example frameworks for Agentic AI under the required qualifications ('frameworks like Google ADK, Langraph, etc.'); they are captured as a single requirement with alternatives rather than split, since the posting treats them as interchangeable examples of the same capability.
The 4+ years of leadership experience requirement is a sub-component of the 15+ year overall experience gate and is not separately surfaced as a skill.
Bloomberg and peer financial data platforms (Refinitiv, Capital IQ, FactSet, PitchBook) appear under Preferred qualifications only.
Knowledge graphs appear under Preferred qualifications only.
A Master's degree is listed as preferred; the hard minimum stated is a Bachelor's degree or equivalent experience — Bachelor's is set as the degree requirement.
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