Principal Engineer, AI Engineering
Wells FargoResponsibilities
- Define target-state architecture, reusable design patterns, engineering standards, and delivery patterns for secure, resilient, governed AI systems.
- Design, build, and guide RAG platforms, agentic workflows, chat experiences, orchestration layers, evaluation pipelines, reusable AI services, chatbots, knowledge platforms, and workflow automation.
- Lead proof-of-concepts, architecture reviews, code reviews, technical deep dives, and engineering enablement for high-impact AI initiatives.
- Establish practices for prompt engineering, skill engineering, model evaluation, observability, guardrails, red teaming, hallucination detection, testing, deployment automation, and runtime monitoring.
- Ensure AI systems address security, data protection, access management, auditability, model risk, responsible AI, explainability, fallback behavior, and human-in-the-loop review.
- Influence cross-team technical decisions, communicate trade-offs and risks to senior stakeholders, and mentor senior engineers and technical leads.
Requirements
- Expert-level hands-on AI engineering experience with Python, TypeScript, React, APIs, distributed high-performance systems, and application delivery.
- Deep experience delivering AI-enabled applications using agentic workflows, LLMs, RAG, model orchestration, embeddings, vector search, and model evaluation techniques.
- Experience with OpenAI, Anthropic, Google Vertex AI, GitHub Copilot, or related AI developer ecosystems.
- Proven ability to influence technical strategy across teams without relying solely on direct reporting authority.
- Strong understanding of cybersecurity controls, data privacy, model risk management, governance, and compliance in regulated financial-services environments.
- Experience establishing AI platform capabilities, reference architectures, or internal developer frameworks is desired.
- Experience with vector databases, embeddings, hybrid search, Elasticsearch, Redis, ChromaDB, or similar retrieval technologies is desired.
- Experience building high-availability banking, capital markets, or other regulated financial applications is desired.
- Ability to communicate complex system designs, trade-offs, risks, and delivery implications to senior technical stakeholders.
Benefits
- Hybrid work schedule.
- Relocation assistance is not available.
- Visa sponsorship is not available.
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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.