What is an AI Engineer at Alpaca?
The Senior AI Platform Engineer at Alpaca is a foundational role designed to transition the company from fragmented AI experimentation to a structured, scalable, and secure AI-enabled enterprise. As Alpaca continues to grow its brokerage infrastructure—serving millions of accounts across global markets—the need for a robust "technical capability layer" is mission-critical. You will not be building standard ML models; you will be architecting the infrastructure that allows internal teams to deploy agentic workflows, LLM-powered tools, and autonomous systems with the rigor required by a regulated financial services firm.
This role sits at the intersection of high-speed innovation and high-stakes compliance. You will be responsible for creating "golden paths" for engineering teams, defining how agents interact with sensitive financial data, and establishing the security boundaries that make AI adoption safe. By productizing the AI stack—from execution environments and connector services to audit trails—you are directly enabling Alpaca to achieve its mission of opening financial services to everyone by removing the friction of manual, ad-hoc tooling.



