Associate, Artificial Intelligence Engineering

What You'll Do:

In this role, you'll join OCC's AI team where you'll contribute to implementing our AI strategy while developing your professional skills. You'll explore new AI technologies and help develop solutions for real business challenges. Working alongside experienced mentors at the intersection of business and technology, you'll learn to build data integrations, optimize systems, and implement AI responsibly. You'll participate in evaluating cutting-edge AI tools to solve business problems, gaining valuable experience in assessing technologies against practical requirements. This position offers an excellent opportunity to grow your capabilities in data analytics, business analysis, and AI governance while making meaningful contributions to OCC's mission of delivering impactful, data-driven solutions from the start of your career.

Primary Duties and Responsibilities:

To perform this job successfully, an individual must be able to perform each primary duty satisfactorily.

• Learn and apply emerging AI technologies to solve business problems under mentorship from senior team members

• Participate in proof-of-concept projects that demonstrate AI capabilities to business stakeholders

• Assist in building data pipelines that support AI systems while developing your technical skills

• Collaborate on integrating AI solutions with existing systems as part of cross-functional teams

• Help develop testing approaches to evaluate AI performance with guidance from experienced colleagues

• Contribute to establishing responsible AI practices and controls

• Support the optimization of AI systems to improve performance through analysis and testing

• Work alongside business teams to understand their needs and translate them into technical requirements

• Develop your expertise by supporting business analysts with their AI and analytics challenges

• Create documentation for technical evaluations to build your communication skills

• Learn to develop metrics that measure business impact of AI implementations

• Gain hands-on experience with various AI tools and platforms

• Shadow senior team members during client meetings to understand business requirements gathering

Supervisory Responsibilities:

• None

Qualifications:

The requirements listed are representative of the knowledge, skill, and/or ability required. Reasonable accommodations may be made to enable individuals with disabilities to perform the primary functions.

• Associate: Perfect entry-level opportunity for recent graduates with AI coursework, capstone projects, or internships

• Senior Associate: For graduates with 1-3 years of experience through internships, research positions, or early career roles

• Enthusiasm for AI technologies demonstrated through academic projects, hackathons, etc.

• Coursework in machine learning, data science, or AI-related subjects

• Experience applying AI concepts in academic or personal projects

• Ability to connect classroom concepts to real-world business applications

• Strong collaboration skills developed through group projects or extracurricular activities

• Clear communication abilities for explaining technical concepts to different audiences

• Familiarity with agile concepts through coursework or project experience

• Analytical mindset and attention to detail demonstrated in your academic work

• Willingness to learn and adapt in a rapidly evolving technology landscape

• Experience with any relevant student organizations, competitions, or AI clubs is a plus

Technical Skills:

• Academic or project experience with Python programming

• Exposure to SQL through coursework or projects

• Understanding of database concepts from relevant classes

• Experience with data analysis tools or libraries (such as Pandas, NumPy, or similar)

• Classroom or project exposure to cloud platforms (AWS, Google Cloud, Azure)

• Familiarity with version control concepts (Git) from coursework or projects

• Experience with Jupyter notebooks or similar tools for data exploration

• Basic understanding of statistical methods and their application to data problems

• Exposure to machine learning frameworks (TensorFlow, PyTorch, scikit-learn) through coursework

• Willingness to quickly learn new tools and technologies with provided training

Education and/or Experience:

• Bachelor's degree in a quantitative field, with Computer Science, Data Science, and Mathematics or related experience.

• Academic research experience or teaching assistantships in relevant subjects are valued

• Completed relevant online courses or certifications beyond degree requirements demonstrate initiative

• Open to candidates from diverse academic backgrounds who can demonstrate analytical thinking and technical aptitude

Certificates or Licenses:

• None Required

About Us

The Options Clearing Corporation (OCC) is the world's largest equity derivatives clearing organization. Founded in 1973, OCC is dedicated to promoting stability and market integrity by delivering clearing and settlement services for options, futures and securities lending transactions. As a Systemically Important Financial Market Utility (SIFMU), OCC operates under the jurisdiction of the U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC), the U.S. Commodity Futures Trading Commission (CFTC), and the Board of Governors of the Federal Reserve System. OCC has more than 100 clearing members and provides central counterparty (CCP) clearing and settlement services to 19 exchanges and trading platforms. More information about OCC is available at www.theocc.com.

Benefits

A highly collaborative and supportive environment developed to encourage work-life balance and employee wellness. Some of these components include:

• A hybrid work environment, up to 2 days per week of remote work
• Tuition Reimbursement to support your continued education
• Student Loan Repayment Assistance
• Technology Stipend allowing you to use the device of your choice to connect to our network while working remotely
• Generous PTO and Parental leave
• 401k Employer Match
• Competitive health benefits including medical, dental and vision

Visit https://www.theocc.com/careers/thriving-together for more information.

Compensation

• The salary range listed for any given position is exclusive of fringe benefits and potential bonuses. If hired at OCC, your final base salary compensation will be determined by factors such as skills, experience and/or education.
• In addition, we believe in the importance of pay equity and consider internal equity of our current team members as part of any final offer.
• We typically do not hire at the maximum of the range in order to allow for future and continued salary growth. We also offer a substantial benefits package as noted on www.theocc.com/careers
• All employees may be eligible for a discretionary bonus. Discretionary bonuses are based on various factors, including, but not limited to, company and individual performance and are not guaranteed.

Salary Range

Incentive Range

This position is eligible for an annual discretionary incentive compensation award, for which the target range is listed above (see Incentive Range). The amount of such award, if any, will be based on various factors, including without limitation, both individual and company performance.

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OCC is an Equal Opportunity Employer