Point72
Finance / FinServ
AIValidationEngineer
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“AI Validation Engineer at Point72. Skills: AI Validation, Playwright Automation, Financial Markets Domain Experience, AI Tools Integration. Define and drive the validation strategy for AI-assisted software delivery across our Macro Trading Technology team. Translate deep knowledge of macro trading workflows into clear behavioral rules, acceptance criteria, and validation scenarios”
What You'll Achieve.
protects trading integrity while accelerating releases; drive smarter decision making; enhance how we build and operate our platforms and applications; delivering real business impact for our multi-billion-dollar global business; release-readiness assessment; post-release validation and stabilization for business-critical macro trading workflows
Industry & Context.
analyze complex business workflows; identify edge cases and control points; convert expected behavior into testable requirements and release-readiness evidence; defect analysis
What They're Looking For.
Must Have
8+ years of professional experience in trading technology, business systems analysis, quality assurance, validation engineering, test automation, or software delivery, Hands-on domain experience with financial markets or trading technology, including exposure to fixed income, futures, foreign exchange, trade capture, blotter behavior, automated straight-through processing, order management and execution systems, or front-office trading platforms background designing and executing validation for production systems, including regression testing, user acceptance testing, manual validation, exploratory testing, defect triage, release support, and post-release stabilization, Demonstrated ability to analyze complex business workflows, identify edge cases and control points, and convert expected behavior into testable requirements and release-readiness evidence, Hands-on experience developing and maintaining automation for modern web applications using Playwright or equivalent automation frameworks, SQL and data analysis skills with the ability to validate system behavior through database queries, logs, APIs, service responses, and downstream data inspection, Practical experience using AI tools across the delivery lifecycle, with a understanding of how AI-assisted development increases the need for clearer business rules, stronger regression coverage, targeted human review, and evidence-based release gates, verbal and written communication skills with the ability to work effectively with engineering, business analysts, trading stakeholders, program management, operations, and compliance, Commitment to the highest ethical standards
What You'll Do.
Define and drive the validation strategy for AI-assisted software delivery across our Macro Trading Technology team
Translate deep knowledge of macro trading workflows into clear behavioral rules
and validation scenarios
Build and maintain comprehensive regression coverage for critical trading workflows
Develop and maintain Playwright-based automation for high-value user journeys
Use AI tools as an integral part of validation
Validate AI-generated code and configuration changes
Create reusable assets
Lead user acceptance testing planning and execution
Drive defect triage and release-readiness assessment
Own post-release validation and stabilization for business-critical macro trading workflows
How You'll Work.
Team & Collaboration
Collaborate with engineering leadership, business analysts, and stakeholders, to clarify expected system behavior before and during implementation and to build consensus on release gates; work effectively with engineering, business analysts, trading stakeholders, program management, operations, and compliance
Communication Scope
verbal and written communication skills
Process & Methodology
Lead user acceptance testing planning and execution, Drive defect triage and release-readiness assessment, Own post-release validation and stabilization
Full Job Description
A Career with Point72's Technology Team As Point72 reimagines the future of investing, our Technology team is constantly evolving our firm’s IT infrastructure and engineering capabilities, positioning us at the forefront of a rapidly evolving technology landscape. We’re a team of experts who experiment and work to discover new ways to harness open-source solutions, modern cloud architectures, and sophisticated Artificial Intelligence (AI) solutions, while embracing enterprise agile methodologies. Our commitment to building and innovating in the AI space provides the framework intended to drive smarter decision making and enhance how we build and operate our platforms and applications. As a member of Point72’s Technology team, we encourage and support your professional development from day one, helping you advance your technical skills, contribute innovative ideas, and satisfy your own intellectual curiosity; all while delivering real business impact for our multi-billion-dollar global business. WHAT YOU'LL DO Define and drive the validation strategy for AI-assisted software delivery across our Macro Trading Technology team, building a scalable approach that protects trading integrity while accelerating releases Translate deep knowledge of macro trading workflows into clear behavioral rules, acceptance criteria, and validation scenarios that guide engineers and AI tools during development Collaborate with engineering leadership, business analysts, and stakeholders, to clarify expected system behavior before and during implementation and to build consensus on release gates Build and maintain comprehensive regression coverage for critical trading workflows, including end-to-end workflow regression, data validation, user interface checks, downstream-impact verification, and documented manual validation paths Develop and maintain Playwright-based automation for high-value user journeys such as blotter behavior, trade capture flows, workflow controls, release smoke checks
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