SS&C is a leading provider of mission-critical, AI-powered technology and services empowering financial services and healthcare organizations to work smarter, faster, and securely. Founded in 1986, SS&C is headquartered in Windsor, Connecticut, and has offices worldwide. More than 23,000 financial services and healthcare organizations, from the world's largest companies to small and mid-market firms, rely on SS&C for expertise, scale, and technology.

Job Description

Job Title: Advanced Prompt Engineer

Location: Hyderabad India | Hybrid

Get To Know Us:

As a leading financial services and healthcare technology company based on revenue, SS&C is headquartered in Windsor, Connecticut, and has 27,000+ employees in 35 countries. Some 20,000 financial services and healthcare

organizations, from the world's largest companies to small and mid-market firms, rely on SS&C for expertise, scale, and technology.

What You Will Get to Do:

• Construct, maintain, and systematically evaluate complex prompt structures (Few-Shot, Chain-of-Thought, ReAct) for core business tasks.
• Integrate program-level guardrail frameworks (NeMo Guardrails, custom logic) to enforce safety rules and prevent improper outputs.
• Optimize system instructions and prompt context formatting to minimize token consumption while maintaining precision.
• Implement programmatic prompt tuning techniques (using DSPy or custom evaluation scripts) to refine system outputs over baseline benchmarks.
• Ensure outputs consistently adhere to strict target schemas (JSON, XML, Pydantic objects) for downstream API ingestion.
• Partner with Business Analysts to convert operational guidelines into precise model system prompts.

What You Will Bring:

• 3–5 years of experience in software engineering, computational linguistics, or technical prompt development.
• Deep knowledge of foundation model behaviors (GPT-4, Llama, Claude, Mistral), context window dynamics, and tokenization mechanics.
• Strong Python coding skills to programmatically generate, test, and evaluate prompt performance at scale.
• Hands-on experience with output validation libraries (Pydantic, Instructor) and guardrail systems.
• Strong technical discipline around edge-case mapping, deterministic output formatting, and cost optimization.

Unless explicitly requested or approached by SS&C Technologies, Inc. or any of its affiliated companies, the company will not accept unsolicited resumes from headhunters, recruitment agencies, or fee-based recruitment services.

Applications will be accepted on an ongoing basis until the position is filled.

SS&C Technologies is an Equal Employment Opportunity employer and does not discriminate against any applicant for employment or employee on the basis of race, color, religious creed, gender, age, marital status, sexual orientation, national origin, disability, veteran status or any other classification protected by applicable discrimination laws.