LPL Financial

Lead with Purpose, Unlock Your Team’s Passion

At LPL, people leaders hold the key to the employee experience — shaping culture, driving performance, and guiding individuals to new heights. Because when that happens, we all win – clients, LPL, and most importantly our, employees.

If you're ready to lead with intention and discover what’s possible, LPL Financial invites you to apply today.

Why This Role Matters

This VP, AI Innovation & Enablement leader will lead the organization responsible for identifying emerging AI technologies, developing reusable patterns, and enabling teams across the enterprise to adopt them effectively.

The team serves as the bridge between new AI capabilities and production implementation, ensuring the organization stays current with advances in generative AI and agent-based systems while maintaining strong engineering discipline.

This group works closely with the AI platform team, architecture, cybersecurity and AI solutions teams to translate experimentation into reusable patterns, reference architectures, and enterprise adoption.

Job Overview

• Maintain strong awareness of the rapidly evolving AI ecosystem
• Translate new AI capabilities into practical engineering patterns
• Accelerate adoption of the enterprise AI platform across engineering teams
• Ensure experimentation leads to reusable capabilities rather than isolated prototypes
• Provide a clear feedback loop to the AI Platform organization on emerging needs

Key Responsibilities

AI Capability Discovery

Continuously evaluate emerging AI technologies and techniques that can meaningfully improve enterprise AI systems, including:

• Large language models and reasoning models
• Agent frameworks and orchestration patterns
• Advanced retrieval architectures
• Multimodal AI systems
• Evaluation and benchmarking techniques

Applied Experimentation

Develop prototypes and reference implementations that validate new AI approaches, and produce reusable engineering patterns (not stand alone demos), including:

• Agent-based workflows
• Retrieval and knowledge access patterns
• Prompt engineering and reasoning workflows
• Tool-using AI systems

Reusable Asset Development

Translate experimentation into practical assets that accelerate the development of production AI systems across the organization:

• Reusable templates for AI applications
• Agent workflow frameworks
• RAG and knowledge integration patterns
• Small models/ synthetic data

Enterprise Enablement

Help engineering teams adopt AI capabilities effectively by:

• Advising teams designing AI-enabled systems
• Providing guidance on safe and reliable AI system design
• Running internal technical workshops and onboarding sessions
• Documenting best practices for AI application development

AI Adoption & Technical Evangelism

Drive awareness and adoption of AI capabilities across the enterprise, including:

• Demonstrating practical AI use cases and reference implementations
• Showcasing successful AI deployments internally
• Organizing engineering showcases, workshops, and hackathons
• Promoting consistent use of the enterprise AI platform

Demonstrations are expected to evolve into reusable patterns or production implementations.

What are we looking for?

We’re looking for strong collaborators who deliver exceptional client experiences and thrive in fast-paced, team-oriented environments. Our ideal candidates pursue greatness, act with integrity, and are driven to help our clients succeed. We value those who embrace creativity, continuous improvement, and contribute to a culture where we win together and create and share joy in our work.

Requirements

• Minimum of 10 years experience in software engineering, machine learning engineering, or applied AI
• Experience designing or experimenting with modern AI systems (LLMs, RAG, or agent workflows)
• Experience with architecture thinking and ability to translate experimentation into practical engineering patterns
• Experience advising engineering teams or leading platform adoption initiatives

Core Competencies:

• Strong communication skills with the ability to engage both engineers and technical leadership​
• Experience working in enterprise platforms or developer platforms
• Experience evaluating and delivering emerging technologies and frameworks
• Background in generative AI systems or applied machine learning
• Experience establishing and growing high performing teams
• Executive presence and ability to translate technology to business value

Pay Range:

$163,875-$273,125/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. (Nasdaq: 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?

• Innovative Environment: We foster creativity and growth, providing a supportive and responsive leadership team. Learn more about our leadership team here!
• Limitless Career Potential: Your career at LPL has no limits, only amazing potential. Learn more about our careers here!
• Unified Mission: We are one team on one mission—taking care of our advisors so they can take care of their clients. Learn more about our mission and values here!
• Impactful Work: Our size is just right for you to make a real impact. Learn more here!
• Commitment to Equality: We support workplace equality and embrace diverse perspectives and backgrounds. Learn more here!
• Community Focus: We care for our communities and encourage our employees to do the same. Learn more here!
• Benefits and Total Rewards: 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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Lead with Purpose, Unlock Your Team’s Passion

At LPL, people leaders hold the key to the employee experience — shaping culture, driving performance, and guiding individuals to new heights. Because when that happens, we all win – clients, LPL, and most importantly our, employees.

If you're ready to lead with intention and discover what’s possible, LPL Financial invites you to apply today.

Why This Role Matters

VP, AI Platform Engineering will be responsible for building and operating LPL Financial's enterprise AI platform that enables teams to develop and run reliable, secure, and governed AI and agent-based systems at scale.

Key accomplishments in the role include:

• Building a high-reliability platform used by multiple engineering teams
• Establish consistent engineering standards for AI development
• Eliminate duplication of AI infrastructure across teams
• Ensure AI systems operate safely within enterprise governance and regulatory constraints
• Partner closely with architecture, security, and product engineering teams

Job Overview

This role leads the engineering organization responsible for building and operating the AI Hub platform—the runtime infrastructure that powers AI-enabled software across the enterprise.

The platform provides the control plane for AI systems, enabling teams to safely integrate large language models, build agent-based workflows, access enterprise knowledge, and execute automated actions through secure tools.

The focus of this role is production-grade engineering: reliability, safety, scalability, and operational governance of AI systems.

Key Responsibilities

AI Runtime & Agent Orchestration Platform

Design and operate the runtime infrastructure that supports AI-driven applications and agents. This includes:

• Agent execution frameworks for multi-step workflows
• Orchestration of model calls, tools, and knowledge retrieval
• State management for long-running AI workflows
• Human-in-the-loop execution patterns
• Support for multi-agent coordination and automation

Model Access & AI Service Layer

Provide a standardized and governed way for engineering teams to interact with AI models. This include:

• Model gateway and routing across AI providers
• Model versioning and lifecycle management
• Token management and cost controls
• Consistent APIs for model access across applications

Enterprise Knowledge & Retrieval Infrastructure

Build the shared infrastructure that enables AI systems to safely access enterprise knowledge. This include:

• Document ingestion and indexing pipelines
• Embedding and retrieval services
• Vector and graph-based knowledge systems
• Secure access controls for enterprise data

Tool Execution & Integration Framework

Enable AI systems to interact safely with enterprise services and applications. This include:

• Secure tool registry for AI agents
• Integration with internal APIs and enterprise systems
• Authorization and policy enforcement for agent actions
• Safe execution of automated workflows

Safety, Governance & Control

Establish the runtime safeguards required to operate AI systems in regulated environments. This includes:

• Prompt and input validation
• Guardrails for agent decision-making
• Policy enforcement for sensitive operations
• Compliance controls and auditability

Observability, Reliability & Cost Management

Ensure AI systems can be operated reliably at scale. This include:

• Tracing and monitoring for AI workflows
• Evaluation and quality monitoring
• Usage tracking and cost telemetry
• Incident response and operational tooling

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What are we looking for?

We’re looking for strong collaborators who deliver exceptional client experiences and thrive in fast-paced, team-oriented environments. Our ideal candidates pursue greatness, act with integrity, and are driven to help our clients succeed. We value those who embrace creativity, continuous improvement, and contribute to a culture where we win together and create and share joy in our work.

Requirements:

• Minimum of 12 years software engineering experience
• Minimum of 5 years leading platform or infrastructure engineering teams
• Experience in distributed systems and cloud platforms
• Experience with modern AI systems such as LLMs, RAG architectures, or agent workflows
• Experience running large-scale production systems

Core Competencies:

• Experience building internal developer platforms or infrastructure services
• Experience building ML or AI platforms
• Experience operating systems in regulated or enterprise environments
• Experience establishing and growing high performing teams
• Strong mentorship skillset
• Executive presence and ability to translate technology to business value

Pay Range:

$163,875-$273,125/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. (Nasdaq: 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?

• Innovative Environment: We foster creativity and growth, providing a supportive and responsive leadership team. Learn more about our leadership team here!
• Limitless Career Potential: Your career at LPL has no limits, only amazing potential. Learn more about our careers here!
• Unified Mission: We are one team on one mission—taking care of our advisors so they can take care of their clients. Learn more about our mission and values here!
• Impactful Work: Our size is just right for you to make a real impact. Learn more here!
• Commitment to Equality: We support workplace equality and embrace diverse perspectives and backgrounds. Learn more here!
• Community Focus: We care for our communities and encourage our employees to do the same. Learn more here!
• Benefits and Total Rewards: 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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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.

Are you excited about turning emerging AI technology into practical, usable solutions for engineers? At LPL Financial, we’re building modern AI capabilities that are safe, scalable, and easy to adopt. In this role, you’ll help engineering teams move faster by creating reusable tools, templates, and examples that simplify how AI is built and delivered across the organization.

Job Overview

As an AI Platform Enablement Analyst, you will help engineering teams adopt AI effectively by building the foundational tools, starter kits, and reference implementations that make AI development easier and more consistent. You’ll work at the intersection of platform engineering and application development, focusing on hands‑on engineering and developer experience. Your work will directly impact how quickly teams can design, build, and ship AI‑enabled products.

Responsibilities

• Build reusable SDKs, sample applications, and reference implementations to support AI‑enabled software development
• Create developer tooling that supports local development, testing, evaluation, debugging, and deployment of AI workloads
• Translate platform capabilities into clear technical documentation, implementation guides, and onboarding resources
• Develop templates and examples for common AI use cases such as chat assistants, summarization, retrieval‑augmented generation (RAG), and agent‑based workflows
• Partner with product and engineering teams to support adoption and promote consistent, scalable AI solutions
• Gather feedback from early adopters and continuously improve tools, documentation, and the overall developer experience
• Support internal demos, workshops, hackathons, and innovation initiatives that showcase AI capabilities

What Success Looks Like

• Engineers can quickly get started building AI solutions without needing deep platform expertise
• AI capabilities are easier to use, easier to understand, and trusted by development teams
• Reusable patterns reduce duplicated effort and improve consistency and quality across teams

Requirements

• Bachelor’s degree in Computer Science, Engineering, or a related technical field, or equivalent practical experience
• 7-12 years experience developing backend services, APIs, or developer platforms. Preferred Python or Java
• 7-12 years experience creating reusable libraries, SDKs, templates, or internal frameworks used by other engineers
• 2-3 years working knowledge of AI or machine‑learning‑powered application development

Core Competencies

• Developer enablement and platform thinking
• Problem solving and systems design
• Collaboration across engineering and product teams
• Continuous learning and improvement
• Focus on usability, reliability, and scalability

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.

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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. (Nasdaq: 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?

• Innovative Environment: We foster creativity and growth, providing a supportive and responsive leadership team. Learn more about our leadership team here!
• Limitless Career Potential: Your career at LPL has no limits, only amazing potential. Learn more about our careers here!
• Unified Mission: We are one team on one mission—taking care of our advisors so they can take care of their clients. Learn more about our mission and values here!
• Impactful Work: Our size is just right for you to make a real impact. Learn more here!
• Commitment to Equality: We support workplace equality and embrace diverse perspectives and backgrounds. Learn more here!
• Community Focus: We care for our communities and encourage our employees to do the same. Learn more here!
• Benefits and Total Rewards: 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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