Associate - AI Engineer - Group Technology

Department Overview: The Intl AI CoE plays a key role in defining and implementing the firm's AI strategy, driving change through these capabilities, enforcing data, cloud and AI governance for the firm, and elevating Nomura's data culture. Role Description: Information delivery & analytics. State-of-the-art expertise across, Large Language Model (LLM) Integration, prompt engineering strategies and templates, retrieval-augmented generation (RAG) and agentic system etc. AI Ops. Responsible for integration, deployment and monitoring of Generative AI products and solutions. Enabling data architecture and delivery of data-analytics AI platforms and Solutions- on-premises, cloud, and hybrid ensuring adherence and conformance to Nomura standards and policies Be a trusted partner. Shape the information & analytics agenda at Nomura, and work with all of Nomura’s businesses in laying out their information & analytics adoption roadmaps. Risk Mindset: Familiar with risk and controls frameworks and ability to operate with a control mindset Skills, experience, qualifications, and knowledge required: Core Skills requirement: Proven experience in designing and developing AI agents or chatbots using Large Language Models (LLM), RAG, and agentic frameworks. Hands-on experience in building context-aware dialogue systems with multi-turn conversation management features. Demonstrated experience in developing and maintaining APIs and SDKs for integration of Generative AI services. Experience in developing and deploying scalable, fault-tolerant microservices and server-side APIs using modern frameworks and best practices. Proven experience in deployment automation using CI/CD pipelines (e.g., Jenkins, GitLab) and applying DevOps methodologies and enterprise integration standards. Proficiency in programming languages such as Python, SQL, and Unix scripting for AI and data processing workflows. Experience with cloud technologies such as AWS EC2, EMR or similar tools with ability to driv…