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 prioritized 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, ADLS, and cloud-native patterns.
- Integrate AI capabilities into enterprise applications, developer workflows, knowledge management, automation, analytics, and decision-support processes.
- Establish engineering practices for CI/CD, testing, model evaluation, observability, performance optimization, security, and responsible AI controls.
- 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 to meet 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 emerging AI technologies, opportunities, risks, and implementation tradeoffs.
Requirements
- Bachelor's degree in Computer Science, Engineering, Data Science, AI/ML, or a related field, or equivalent practical experience.
- 10+ years of progressive experience in software engineering, AI engineering, platform engineering, or related technology leadership roles.
- Experience delivering production AI solutions and leading AI, data, automation, or emerging technology initiatives from experimentation through production.
- 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, prompt engineering, retrieval-augmented generation, embeddings, vector databases, orchestration frameworks, agentic workflows, evaluation, and hallucination mitigation.
- Understanding of data protection, source validation, access control, logging, monitoring, traceability, human review, responsible AI, model governance, prompt-injection risks, and data privacy.
- Experience with data quality, lineage, metadata, workflow design, controls, operational risk, and measurable business outcomes.
- 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.
- Advanced degree in AI, Computer Science, Data Science, Engineering, or a related field is preferred.
- Experience establishing AI engineering teams, platforms, reusable delivery patterns, enterprise AI standards, MLOps/LLMOps, monitoring, evaluation pipelines, registries, and production incident management is preferred.
- Experience with copilots, enterprise search, intelligent document processing, workflow automation, AI-enabled knowledge management, vendor evaluation, model risk management, third-party risk, privacy impact assessments, and regulated technology delivery is preferred.
- Applicants must have legal authorization to work in the United States.
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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.