American Express

Data Engineer II

American ExpressGurugram, Chennai
HybridFull-timeExperience: 2 – 5 YearsPosted: 8/15/2026

Job Description

Our GenAI Platform team and help build enterprise-grade Generative AI capabilities and MCP (Model Context Protocol) tooling that power our semantic layer. This role is ideal for a Data engineer with a strong technical foundation who is excited about AI technologies, developer platforms, and building intelligent applications at scale.

Key Responsibilities

Reporting to a Senior Engineering Manager or Engineering Director, you will collaborate with engineers, architects, product managers, and data teams to develop scalable, secure, and reliable AI-enabled services that accelerate innovation across the organization.

Design, develop, and maintain services, APIs, and platform components supporting GenAI and semantic-layer capabilities.

Build and enhance MCP tools, adapters, and integrations that enable secure interaction between AI models and enterprise systems.

Implement and optimize retrieval-augmented generation (RAG), semantic search, embeddings, and knowledge retrieval solutions.

Partner with cross-functional teams to integrate AI capabilities into business applications and developer workflows.

Contribute to technical design discussions, architecture reviews, and engineering best practices.

Troubleshoot production issues, improve system reliability, and optimize performance and scalability.

Develop automated testing, monitoring, and observability solutions to ensure operational excellence.

Stay current on emerging trends in Generative AI, agentic systems, MCP, and semantic technologies.

Qualifications

Bachelor’s degree in computer science, Engineering, Information Technology, or a related field.

2–5 years of software engineering experience developing scalable applications and services.

Required Skills

PythonJavaTypeScriptGoCI/CDAPI

Job Summary

Experience2 – 5 Years
CompensationCompetitive Salary
Job TypeFull-time
Work ModeHybrid
LocationGurugram, Chennai

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