Forward Deployed AI Specialist — Trading & Capital Markets
Wells Fargo2 days ago
Base Salary
$215k - $355k/yr
Responsibilities
- Partner with trading, product, and operational teams to identify workflow needs, pain points, controls, and AI transformation opportunities.
- Translate market data, quantitative analysis, execution, risk limits, position keeping, and settlement requirements into technical designs, workflows, and prototypes.
- Develop trading analytics, market information processing, execution, and post-trade analysis solutions.
- Select appropriate approaches including machine learning, generative AI, agents, or non-AI solutions, and define success criteria using representative market data.
- Apply large language models, agentic systems, retrieval-augmented generation, tool use, orchestration, and evaluation methods to trading workflows and financial information analysis.
- Transition AI solutions from prototypes into production with technology teams and deliver measurable improvements in productivity, analytics, execution, and operational effectiveness.
- Partner with control functions to ensure solutions are explainable, auditable, governed, and aligned with trading controls.
- Develop reusable AI patterns, capabilities, tools, evaluations, and reference architectures across trading desks and asset classes.
- Build AI fluency across trading teams and stay current on AI technologies, frameworks, and best practices for trading.
Requirements
- At least 10 years of Artificial Intelligence Solutions experience, or equivalent demonstrated through work experience, training, military experience, or education.
- Direct experience applying Level 1 and Level 2 market data and order book dynamics to quantitative analysis or automated execution and analytics workflows across equities, fixed income, FX, or derivatives.
- Hands-on experience designing and orchestrating agentic AI systems for trading or capital-markets workflows.
- Understanding of trading controls and post-trade workflows, including risk limits, position keeping, and settlement.
- Experience deploying AI-powered solutions into production trading or capital-markets workflows with measurable business impact is preferred.
- Experience with large language models, retrieval-augmented generation, and evaluation frameworks for AI-powered solutions is preferred.
- Experience rapidly prototyping AI solutions using Python, notebooks, or low-code tools while maintaining a production-oriented mindset is preferred.
- Strong communication and stakeholder-management skills across trading, technology, and control functions are preferred.
- Knowledge of model governance, AI risk management, responsible AI, privacy, and information-security practices is preferred.
- Experience with cloud-based AI platforms, enterprise data ecosystems, and production AI deployment patterns is preferred.
- Experience with high-frequency tick data, Level 2 and Level 3 order-book reconstruction, bid-ask spread dynamics, and order-execution mechanisms is preferred.
- Exposure to algorithmic trading strategies, automated execution loops, and back-testing frameworks, including handling look-ahead bias and slippage, is preferred.
- Experience applying agentic AI systems to real-time financial news, filings, and market indicators is preferred.
- Understanding of mark outs and transaction cost analysis is preferred.
Benefits
- Health benefits, 401(k) plan, paid time off, disability benefits, life insurance, critical illness insurance, and accident insurance.
- Parental leave and critical caregiving leave.
- Discounts and savings, commuter benefits, tuition reimbursement, scholarships for dependent children, and adoption reimbursement.
- The position requires onsite presence at the Wells Fargo New York office.
- The position is not eligible for visa sponsorship.
Tech Stack
Categories
Forward Deployed
About Wells Fargo
Wells Fargo & Company is a U.S.-based financial services firm providing consumer and commercial banking, mortgages, credit, and wealth/investment services to individuals, small businesses, and enterprises. It earns revenue from interest income and fees across retail banking, payments, lending, and capital markets. Founded in 1852 and headquartered in San Francisco, it is publicly traded on the NYSE (WFC) and operates nationally with offices in multiple countries.