Software Engineer, AI Hub Platform

Where Ambition Meets Innovation Build a career that matches all your initiative with an impressive dose of innovation. From cutting-edge resources and a collaborative environment to the freedom to make an impact and more, you'll find the ingredients you need at LPL Financial to shape your success while helping clients pursue their financial goals. As AI continues to transform how we build and deliver technology, LPL Financial is investing in shared, secure, and scalable AI platforms that empower product teams to innovate with confidence. This role offers the opportunity to work at the intersection of engineering, cloud, security, and AI—helping establish trusted foundations that accelerate AI-enabled solutions across the enterprise. Job Overview The AI Platform Analyst plays a critical role in building and evolving shared runtime services, control plane capabilities, and core platform components that enable teams to develop and operate AI-enabled applications safely in production. This role focuses on platform capabilities that must be consistent across teams, including model access, policy enforcement, tenant isolation, observability, auditability, and tool integration. Working closely with architecture, security, cloud, and product partners, this role helps define and deliver "paved paths" that reduce friction, lower risk, and speed time to production for AI solutions across LPL.

Responsibilities:

Design and build core AI Hub platform services, APIs, SDKs, and runtime components Implement shared platform controls including authentication, authorization, policy enforcement, rate limiting, audit logging, and tenant isolation Develop integration patterns for model providers, retrieval systems, tool registries, and orchestration frameworks Build production-grade services for AI request routing, session and context handling, tool invocation, and response assurance Partner with architecture, security, cloud, and product teams to define standardized approaches for AI delivery Improve platform reliability, scalability, cost efficiency, and operational transparency Contribute to engineering standards for testing, deployment, telemetry, and secure software development for AI workloads

What Success Looks Like:

Product teams can easily adopt AI Hub components without rebuilding common runtime capabilities AI-enabled applications move to production faster with consistent controls and reduced operational risk Platform services are observable, resilient, reusable, and trusted by engineering, security, and risk partners

Requirements:

7-12 years of software engineering experience with distributed systems, APIs, and cloud-native platforms 7-12 years experience building or supporting shared platforms or internal developer platforms 7-12 years experience using Java, Python, or similar backend programming languages 5+ years experience with cloud services, containers, event-driven architectures, and service integration patterns 2-3 years of experience with AI/LLM system building blocks such as model gateways, vector retrieval, tool calling, or agent orchestration

Core Competencies:

Platform thinking and systems design Operational excellence and reliability engineering Secure-by-design development practices Analytical problem-solving Cross-team collaboration

Preferences:

A strong technical foundation with a passion for building shared platforms that scale across teams The ability to translate ambiguous platform needs into clear, implementable solutions A collaborative mindset and comfort working across architecture, security, and product stakeholders Curiosity and continuous improvement in emerging AI and platform technologies Please note: This position does not offer work authorization sponsorship now or in the future. Applicants must have valid U.S. work authorization that does not require employer sponsorship. #

LI-Hybrid Pay Range:

$115,141-$191,902/year Actual base salary varies based on factors, including but not limited to, relevant skill, prior experience, education, base salary of internal peers, demonstrated performance, and geographic location. Additionally, LPL Total Rewards package is highly competitive, designed to support your success at work, at home, and at play - such as 401K matching, health benefits, employee stock options, paid time off, volunteer time off, and more. Your recruiter will be happy to discuss all that LPL has to offer!

Company Overview:

LPL Financial Holdings Inc. (

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LPLA) is among the fastest growing wealth management firms in the U.S. As a leader in the financial advisor-mediated marketplace(6) , LPL supports over 32,000 financial advisors and the wealth management practices of approximately 1,100 financial institutions, servicing and custodying approximately $2.3 trillion in brokerage and advisory assets on behalf of approximately 8 million Americans. The firm provides a wide range of advisor affiliation models, investment solutions, fintech tools and practice management services, ensuring that advisors and institutions have the flexibility to choose the business model, services, and technology resources they need to run thriving businesses. For further information about LPL, please visit www.lpl.com. At LPL, independence means that advisors and institution leaders have the freedom they deserve to choose the business model, services, and technology resources that allow them to run a thriving business. They have the flexibility to do business their way. And they have the freedom to manage their client relationships, because they know their clients best. Simply put, we take care of our advisors and institutions, so they can take care of their clients. For further information about LPL, please visit www.lpl.com.

Join LPL Financial:

Where Your Potential Meets Opportunity At LPL Financial, we believe that everyone deserves objective financial guidance. As the nation's leading independent broker-dealer, we offer an integrated platform of cutting-edge technology, brokerage, and investment advisor services. Why LPL?

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Our Total Rewards package goes beyond just compensation and insurance. It includes a mix of traditional and unique benefits, perks, and resources designed to enhance your life both at work and at home. Learn more here! Join the LPL team and help us make a difference by turning life's aspirations into financial realities. Please log in or create an account to apply to this position. Principals only. EOE. Information on

Interviews:

LPL will only communicate with a job applicant directly from an @lplfinancial.com email address and will never conduct an interview online or in a chatroom forum. During an interview, LPL will not request any form of payment from the applicant, or information regarding an applicant's bank or credit card. Should you have any questions regarding the application process, please contact LPL's Human Resources Solutions Center at (855) 575-6947.

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Financial is the nation's largest independent broker-dealer.• Our company is widely known for its financial strength, exceptional service, and favorable industry reputation among financial professionals. To understand who we are, it's important to know our core belief: financial guidance is a fundamental need for everyone. LPL Financial creates the space to let you do what you do best - create personal, long-term client relationships that turn financial aspirations into realities. Each year, thousands of financial professionals successfully manage billions of dollars in assets. Because our company is not too big and not too small, you can seize the opportunity to make a real impact. To learn more about our organization visit our About LPL page. • As reported by Financial Planning magazine, June 1996-2019, based on total revenue. Want to learn more about the benefits of working at LPL? Check out the links below! We Are LPL Benefits Culture Social Responsibility