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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

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