Senior AI Engineer
Job Description
Charlotte, NC (onsite) contract role at Wells Fargo for a Senior AI Engineer focused on building and integrating AI applications that meet enterprise governance, security, and compliance expectations. You will lead AI application development end-to-end, including deployment, evaluation, troubleshooting, and continuous improvement, while collaborating across engineering and oversight teams.
The work spans enterprise APIs, LLMs, and agent frameworks, with hands-on implementation of prompt engineering, retrieval augmented generation, fine tuning, and agentic design patterns. Your efforts will connect LLM capabilities to existing enterprise systems and secure data pipelines in a regulated environment.
What you will do
- Lead moderately complex initiatives and deliverables in technical engineering environments
- Contribute to large scale planning of strategies across Consumer Technology
- Design, code, test, debug, and document AI applications and services, including upgrades and deployments
- Review technical challenges requiring in depth evaluation of technologies, procedures, and engineering approaches
- Resolve moderately complex issues and help teams meet existing and emerging business needs
- Collaborate with peers, colleagues, and mid-level managers to achieve project goals
- Lead projects and serve as an escalation point, providing direction to less experienced engineers
- Design, develop, and deploy AI applications using enterprise APIs, LLMs, and agent frameworks
- Implement prompt engineering, retrieval augmented generation, fine tuning, and agentic design patterns
- Integrate LLM models with enterprise systems and ensure AI solutions align with governance, security, and compliance standards
- Troubleshoot complex application and model related issues and drive continuous improvement of AI systems
- Assist and mentor engineers in advanced software development and AI engineering practices
- Stay current on advances in AI, LLMs, and agent frameworks, applying relevant updates to products and systems
What you bring
- Authorization to work for ANY employer in the U.S.; not eligible for visa sponsorship
- Understanding of cloud security principles, including identity and access management, encryption, and network security in public or hybrid cloud environments
- Experience working in highly regulated industries such as financial services
- Experience as a technical lead or architect, including mentoring senior engineers
- Experience integrating or contributing to open-source AI or ML projects
- Experience integrating applications with enterprise data platforms, APIs, and secure data pipelines
- Strong communication and documentation skills to collaborate across engineering, product, and oversight teams
Tools and technologies involved
- Identity and access management, encryption, network security
- Enterprise APIs, enterprise systems, vector databases
- LLMs and AI frameworks, prompt engineering, retrieval augmented generation, fine tuning
- OpenAI, Anthropic, Google Gemini
- Power Platform (Power Apps, Dataverse), UiPath
- Elasticsearch, OpenSearch, Pinecone, Weaviate
- ML lifecycle tools, feature stores, model registries
- CI/CD pipelines for AI services
- Observability and monitoring
Preferred experience
- Power Platform experience, including Power Apps and Dataverse
- UiPath or other enterprise automation tools
- LLM development experience using OpenAI, Anthropic, or Google Gemini models
- Agentic frameworks and AI workflow orchestration experience
- Experience designing applications with retrieval augmented generation, fine tuning, and structured prompting
- Vector database and retrieval systems experience such as Elasticsearch, OpenSearch, Pinecone, or Weaviate
- LLM evaluation, observability, and monitoring including latency, cost, accuracy, grounding, drift detection, and safety assessments
- Familiarity with ML lifecycle tools and processes such as feature stores, model registries, and CI/CD pipelines for AI services
- Familiarity with responsible AI principles, compliance, and governance processes in regulated environments
- Experience optimizing AI application performance including prompt efficiency, model selection, caching, batching, and cost management
Benefits (contract)
- Health Insurance
- Life insurance
- 401K
- Voluntary Benefits