Oliver James Associates
AI Engineer (Financial Services - Software)
AI engineer for a financial-services client in Hong Kong who builds, deploys, and maintains LLM-based applications and chatbots for customers and internal agents. Day-to-day is Python (FastAPI/Flask), RAG and prompt engineering, plus production support on AWS with Docker, Kubernetes (EKS/ECS), and CI/CD.
- Compensation
- HK$50K–HK$75K / mo
- Location
- Hong Kong Island
- Work setup
- Onsite
- Seniority
- Junior
- Employment
- Full time
- Experience
- 7+ years
- Category
- Ai engineering
- Posted
Skills
Must have
- Hands-on experience developing AI applications using LLM-based solutions
- 7+ years of IT industry experience / software engineering background
- Experience building or supporting chatbot applications
- Experience with application monitoring, patching, dependency upgrades, and writing technical documentation/runbooks
- Strong knowledge of RAG, prompt engineering, embeddings, vector search, LLM APIs, evaluation, and AI guardrails
- Strong Python skills with experience using FastAPI or Flask
- Experience developing REST APIs and integrating systems
- Solid AWS experience, including deploying applications from source code to production
- Hands-on knowledge of Docker, Kubernetes, Amazon EKS/ECS, ECR, IAM, CloudWatch, S3, RDS, and CI/CD pipelines
- Ability to troubleshoot application, API, Kubernetes, network, and integration issues in production
- Effective communication in Cantonese and English
Nice to have
- Insurance or Financial Services Industry (FSI) experience
- Experience with AWS Bedrock or other LLM platforms
Full description
Salary: $50,000 – $75,000 per month
Role Description:
- Build and improve AI applications from a technical standpoint
- Handle deployment, ongoing maintenance, troubleshooting, and improvements of AI applications
- Support chatbot and AI-driven solutions for customers and internal agents
- Apply LLM technologies and AI frameworks to develop and enhance applications
- Deploy, maintain, troubleshoot, and enhance AI applications
- Support daily operations and address production issues
- Contribute to the development of new AI features and functionalities
- Progressively take ownership of applications development
Key Requirements
- Hands-on experience developing AI applications using LLM-based solutions
- 7+ years of IT industry experience/software engineering background
- Experience building or supporting chatbot applications
- Experience with application monitoring, patching, dependency upgrades, and writing technical documentation/runbooks
- Strong knowledge of RAG, prompt engineering, embeddings, vector search, LLM APIs, evaluation, and AI guardrails
- Strong Python skills with experience using FastAPI or Flask
- Experience developing REST APIs and integrating systems
- Solid AWS experience, including deploying applications from source code to production
- Hands-on knowledge of Docker, Kubernetes, Amazon EKS/ECS, ECR, IAM, CloudWatch, S3, RDS, and CI/CD pipelines
- Ability to troubleshoot application, API, Kubernetes, network, and integration issues in production
- Effective communication in Cantonese and English
- Insurance or Financial Services Industry (FSI) experience is preferred
- Experience with AWS Bedrock or other LLM platforms is preferred
- Candidates with lesser experience may be considered for a more junior position