AI Engineer
East West Bank2 years ago
Pasadena, CA, USAStaff+
Base Salary
$125k - $250k/yr
Responsibilities
- Design, develop, and deploy enterprise AI and Generative AI applications for prioritized banking use cases.
- 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 using Python, FastAPI or Flask, Azure OpenAI, Azure ML, Databricks, and ADLS.
- Integrate AI capabilities into enterprise applications, developer workflows, knowledge management, automation, analytics, and decision-support processes.
- Establish reusable AI engineering frameworks, reference architectures, code standards, deployment patterns, governance controls, and production practices.
- Implement testing, model evaluation, observability, performance optimization, security, responsible AI, data protection, access control, logging, monitoring, and traceability.
- Partner with business, data, cybersecurity, risk, compliance, legal, and vendor teams to meet regulatory, privacy, auditability, and operational risk expectations.
- Prototype with stakeholders, convert pilots into scalable implementations, and define adoption and business impact metrics.
- Evaluate LLM platforms for accuracy, latency, cost, security, explainability, and regulated-enterprise fit.
- Support hiring, mentor AI engineers, and provide technical leadership to cross-functional delivery teams.
- Advise leadership on AI opportunities, risks, implementation tradeoffs, roadmaps, operating models, standards, and adoption plans.
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 delivery.
- Strong hands-on experience with Python, API design, microservices, cloud architecture, distributed systems, data pipelines, CI/CD, testing, observability, and secure software delivery.
- Deep experience with Azure OpenAI, Azure ML, Databricks, ADLS, Azure AI Search, and related enterprise integration patterns.
- 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, retrieval-augmented generation, embeddings, vector databases, LLM orchestration, agentic workflows, evaluation frameworks, hallucination mitigation, and AI monitoring.
- Understanding of responsible AI, model governance, prompt-injection risks, data privacy, production controls, data quality, lineage, metadata, workflow design, and operational risk.
- Experience in financial services, banking, fintech, insurance, or another regulated industry, including compliance, auditability, risk management, and governance.
- Ability to lead cross-functional teams, influence senior stakeholders, mentor engineers, and translate complex AI capabilities into practical business solutions.
- Strong executive communication skills and experience defining AI roadmaps, operating models, standards, adoption plans, and success metrics.
- Preferred qualifications include a master's degree; experience establishing AI engineering teams, platforms, reusable delivery patterns, and enterprise AI standards; experience with copilots, enterprise search, intelligent document processing, workflow automation, AI-enabled knowledge management, vendor evaluation, MLOps/LLMOps, model or prompt registries, evaluation pipelines, and production incident management.
Benefits
- The position is based in the United States and requires legal authorization to work in the United States.
- The employer 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.