Senior AI Engineer
East West Bank2 years ago
Pasadena, CA, USASenior
Base Salary
$175k - $275k/yr
Responsibilities
- Design, develop, and deploy enterprise AI and generative AI applications for banking use cases such as customer service, fraud detection, document processing, knowledge management, and operational efficiency.
- Architect LLM-enabled solutions using retrieval-augmented generation, vector search, agentic workflows, MCP, model orchestration, tool/function calling, and human-in-the-loop controls.
- Build production-grade services and APIs with Python, FastAPI or Flask, Azure OpenAI, Azure ML, Databricks, and ADLS.
- Integrate AI into enterprise applications, developer workflows, knowledge platforms, automation, analytics, and decision-support processes.
- Establish practices for testing, model evaluation, observability, performance optimization, security, responsible AI, deployment, and governance.
- Create reusable AI engineering frameworks, reference architectures, code standards, deployment patterns, and governance controls.
- Partner with business, data, cybersecurity, risk, compliance, legal, and vendor teams on regulatory, privacy, auditability, and operational-risk requirements.
- Prototype with stakeholders, transition pilots into scalable implementations, and define adoption and business-impact metrics.
- Evaluate LLM platforms for accuracy, latency, cost, security, explainability, and regulated-enterprise suitability.
- Support hiring, mentoring, and technical leadership for AI engineers and cross-functional delivery teams.
- Advise leadership on emerging AI opportunities, risks, tradeoffs, roadmaps, operating models, and implementation standards.
Requirements
- Bachelor’s degree in Computer Science, Engineering, Data Science, AI/ML, or equivalent practical experience.
- 10+ years of progressive experience in software engineering, AI engineering, platform engineering, or related technology leadership roles, including production AI delivery.
- Experience leading AI, data, automation, or emerging-technology initiatives from strategy and experimentation through production.
- Strong hands-on experience with Python, API design, microservices, cloud architecture, distributed systems, data pipelines, testing, observability, and secure software delivery.
- Deep experience with Azure, including Azure OpenAI, Azure ML, Databricks, ADLS, and Azure AI Search.
- Experience with LLM platforms and tools including OpenAI, Anthropic Claude, Google Gemini, Microsoft Copilot, AWS Bedrock, Llama, Mistral, LangChain, LlamaIndex, and Semantic Kernel.
- Practical experience with prompt engineering, RAG, embeddings, vector databases, LLM orchestration, agentic workflows, evaluation frameworks, hallucination mitigation, and production controls.
- Experience with data quality, lineage, metadata, workflow design, operational controls, risk management, and measurable business outcomes.
- Experience in financial services, banking, fintech, insurance, or another regulated industry.
- Ability to lead cross-functional teams, influence senior stakeholders, mentor engineers, and communicate complex AI concepts in practical business terms.
- Preferred qualifications include a master’s degree, experience establishing AI engineering teams and enterprise AI standards, AI vendor evaluation, regulated technology delivery, MLOps/LLMOps, AI monitoring, evaluation pipelines, production incident management, and mentoring senior engineers.
Benefits
- Base pay range is USD $175,000.00 to USD $275,000.00 per year.
- The role is based in the United States and requires legal authorization to work in the United States.
- East West Bank does not offer visa sponsorship at this time.
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About East West Bank
EastWest Banking Corporation is a Philippine universal bank providing retail and commercial banking, credit cards, deposits, auto and personal loans, SME lending, treasury, and cash management through a nationwide branch network. Founded in 1994 and headquartered in Taguig, Metro Manila, it is a subsidiary of Filinvest Development Corporation. The bank also offers allied services such as non-life insurance brokerage, bancassurance, and leasing, earning primarily from net interest income and fees.