AI Engineer
East West Bank2 years ago
Pasadena, CA, USAStaff+
Base Salary
$125k - $200k/yr
Responsibilities
- Design, develop, deploy, and operationalize enterprise AI and generative AI applications for banking use cases.
- Architect LLM-enabled solutions involving 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 platforms, automation, analytics, and decision-support processes.
- Establish reusable AI engineering frameworks, reference architectures, code standards, deployment patterns, governance controls, testing, evaluation, observability, security, and responsible AI practices.
- Partner with business, data, cybersecurity, risk, compliance, legal, and vendor teams to satisfy regulatory, privacy, auditability, and operational risk expectations.
- Prototype with stakeholders, convert pilots into scalable implementations, and define adoption and 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 AI opportunities, risks, implementation tradeoffs, roadmaps, operating models, and success metrics.
Requirements
- Bachelor's degree in Computer Science, Engineering, Data Science, AI/ML, or equivalent practical experience; an advanced degree is preferred.
- 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, including Azure OpenAI, Azure ML, Databricks, ADLS, Azure AI Search, and enterprise integration patterns.
- Experience with LLM platforms including OpenAI ChatGPT/Codex, Anthropic Claude, Google Gemini, Microsoft Copilot/Azure OpenAI, AWS Bedrock, Llama, or Mistral.
- Practical experience with prompt engineering, RAG, embeddings, vector databases, LLM orchestration, agentic workflows, evaluation frameworks, and hallucination mitigation.
- Understanding of Responsible AI, model governance, prompt-injection risks, data privacy, access control, traceability, monitoring, and production controls.
- Experience with LangChain, LlamaIndex, Semantic Kernel, model registries, evaluation frameworks, and monitoring or observability tools.
- 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 AI capabilities into practical business solutions.
- Preferred qualifications include a master's degree, experience building AI engineering teams and enterprise standards, MLOps/LLMOps experience, vendor evaluation experience, and knowledge of model risk, third-party risk, privacy assessments, and production incident management.
Benefits
- Applicants must have legal authorization to work in the United States.
- The employer does not offer visa sponsorship at this time.
- The base pay range is USD $125,000.00/Yr. to USD $200,000.00/Yr.
- Exact offers depend on job-related knowledge, skills, experience, and location.
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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.