
Principal Engineer - Gen AI
Wells FargoResponsibilities
- Advise leadership on applications, network, information security, database, operating systems, and web technologies for complex enterprise needs.
- Lead the strategy and resolution of highly complex, enterprise-wide technical challenges and deliver long-term, large-scale solutions.
- Translate business objectives, enterprise technology environments, and strategic opportunities into technical engineering solutions.
- Provide vision, direction, and expertise on innovative business solutions and technology implementation.
- Monitor industry best practices and recommend innovations that improve operations or provide competitive advantage.
- Serve as an expert technical advisor and engage strategically with professionals and managers across the enterprise.
Requirements
- 7+ years of engineering experience or equivalent demonstrated through work experience, training, military experience, or education.
- Deep end-to-end GenAI expertise, including LLMs, RAG, vector databases, prompt engineering, fine-tuning, LLMOps, observability, and production deployment.
- Strong expertise in agentic AI platforms and multi-agent architectures, including planning, reasoning, memory management, tool orchestration, workflow automation, and autonomous execution frameworks.
- Leadership experience with AI evaluations, benchmarking, model quality assurance, red teaming, safety testing, performance measurement, and continuous evaluation frameworks.
- Expert knowledge of AI guardrails, Responsible AI, GenAI governance, model lifecycle management, compliance, auditability, policy enforcement, risk controls, and enterprise governance.
- Understanding of GenAI cybersecurity risks and mitigations, including prompt injection, jailbreaks, data leakage, model abuse, supply chain risks, OWASP LLM Top 10, and MITRE ATLAS.
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About Wells Fargo
Wells Fargo & Company (NYSE: WFC) is a diversified, community-based financial services company with approximately $1.9 trillion in assets. Wells Fargo’s vision is to satisfy our customers’ financial needs and help them succeed financially. Founded in 1852 and headquartered in San Francisco, Wells Fargo provides banking, investment and mortgage products and services, as well as consumer and commercial finance, through more than 7,300 locations, 12,000 ATMs, the internet (wellsfargo.com) and mobile banking, and has offices in over 40 countries and territories to support customers who conduct business in the global economy. With approximately 250,000 team members, Wells Fargo serves one in three households in the United States. Wells Fargo & Company was ranked No. 41 on Fortune’s 2022 rankings of America’s largest corporations. News, insights and perspectives from Wells Fargo are also available at Wells Fargo Stories. Relevant military experience is considered for veterans and transitioning service men and women. All qualified applicants will receive consideration for employment without regard to race, color, religion, sex, sexual orientation, gender identity, national origin, disability, status as a protected veteran, or any other legally protected characteristic.© 2016 Wells Fargo Bank, N.A. All rights reserved. Member FDIC.