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Lead Generative AI Engineer, VP

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Jacksonville, FL, USA or Irving, TX, USAStaff+
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Base Salary

$126k - $189k/yr

Responsibilities

  • Lead hands-on development and delivery of intelligent operations solutions, including chatbots, agentic workflow automation, and AI-assisted decision platforms.
  • Fine-tune, prompt-engineer, orchestrate, and deploy open-source and proprietary LLMs through Google Vertex AI.
  • Implement Retrieval-Augmented Generation pipelines and AI orchestration systems.
  • Architect AI safety frameworks, guardrails, deterministic controls, and governance processes for privacy, compliance, reliability, and hallucination prevention.
  • Design and deploy scalable AI pipelines using Python, Docker, Kubernetes, and cloud-native architectures.
  • Apply financial services technology and risk-management knowledge to ensure auditability and financial data security.
  • Lead AI and automation programs from concept through production and set senior-level technical direction.

Requirements

  • Deep understanding of LLM architectures, vector databases, embedding models, and AI orchestration frameworks.
  • Hands-on experience with Google Vertex AI or equivalent enterprise cloud AI platforms and open-source models such as Llama, Mistral, and Gemma.
  • Production experience implementing deterministic controls, semantic routing, guardrails, and bias or hallucination detection.
  • Expert Python skills with PyTorch, Hugging Face, Pandas, NumPy, FastAPI, and Flask.
  • Strong experience with OpenShift, Docker, Kubernetes, CI/CD pipelines, and cloud-native application delivery.
  • Experience in financial services technology, including financial products, compliance requirements, and fintech AI.
  • Demonstrated ability to lead AI and automation programs and establish credible technical direction at a senior level.
  • Bachelor’s or university degree or equivalent experience required; a master’s degree in Computer Science, Artificial Intelligence, or a related technical discipline is preferred.
  • Familiarity with additional AI orchestration tools and emerging open-source LLM frameworks is beneficial.

Benefits

  • Hybrid work model with three days in the office and two days working remotely.
  • Access to enterprise AI platforms, open-source tools, and large-scale cloud infrastructure.
  • Continuous learning and development opportunities in generative AI and machine learning.
  • Collaborative environment emphasizing technical excellence, mentorship, and delivery ownership.
  • Medical, dental, and vision coverage; 401(k); life, accident, and disability insurance; wellness programs; paid vacation, sick leave, and holidays.
  • Full-time position based in Irving, Texas, with an anticipated posting close date of October 15, 2026.

Tech Stack

DockerFastAPIFlaskKubernetesNumPyOpenShiftPandasPythonPyTorch
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About Citi

10,000+ employees

Citi is a public financial-services company offering consumer and institutional banking, credit cards, wealth management, treasury and trade solutions, and capital-markets services. It serves individuals, corporations, financial institutions, and governments in more than 160 countries and jurisdictions, earning interest and fee income from lending, payments, trading, and advisory. Founded in 1812 and headquartered in New York, it trades on the NYSE under the ticker C.

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