Principal AI Engineer, Enterprise Generative AI

Wells Fargo

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Work type
Hybrid
Location
Charlotte, NCIrving, TX
Employment
Full-time
Posted
2 days ago
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Confirmed live today
Closes
Nov 3, 2026 (soon)

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Wells Fargo & Company is one of the largest banks in the United States, providing banking, investment, mortgage, and consumer and commercial finance products and services nationwide. Industry: Banking & Financial Services

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TL;DR · Principal AI Engineer, Enterprise Generative AI

The Principal AI Engineer – Enterprise Generative AI joins the team to drive the design, scale, and operationalization of enterprise Generative AI solutions. This role involves owning end-to-end technical strategy, defining architectures for RAG pipelines, agentic workflows, and multi-model routing, and ensuring production readiness through observability and cost efficiency. Working in a Forward Deployed Engineering model, the engineer embeds with business partners to translate problems into AI system designs while aligning with central platforms. Key technical requirements include Python programming, LLMs, prompt engineering, vector databases, semantic search, and cloud-native distributed systems. The role solves complex business problems by delivering high-impact use cases like intent routing and virtual assistants while ensuring all solutions comply with strict risk, cyber, and model governance standards in a highly regulated environment.

What does a AI Engineer earn?

Median $211200 from 150 postings across 43 companies.

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What you'll do

  • Design and own enterprise-grade GenAI architectures including RAG pipelines, agentic workflows, and multi-model routing.
  • Drive production readiness by ensuring scalability, resilience, observability, and cost efficiency for AI solutions.
  • Lead architectural decisions for data ingestion, vector databases, model selection, and latency optimization.
  • Partner with business teams to translate requirements into technical designs and deliver high-impact GenAI use cases.
  • Establish reference architectures and reusable patterns to accelerate GenAI adoption across different lines of business.
  • Ensure all AI solutions comply with risk, cyber, and model governance standards including data protection and guardrails.
  • Mentor senior and staff-level engineers to raise the technical bar across the enterprise.
  • Influence the central AI platform roadmap by providing feedback from real-world production use cases.

What we're looking for

  • 7+ years of software engineering experience with significant depth in AI/ML or data-intensive systems.
  • 2+ years of experience in Python programming language.
  • 2+ years of experience designing and delivering production-scale Generative AI systems in an enterprise environment.
  • 2+ years of experience in LLMs, prompt engineering, and RAG architecture.
  • 2+ years of experience in vector databases, semantic search, and API-driven, cloud-native architectures.
  • 2+ years of experience in distributed systems and performance optimization.
  • Strong understanding of non-functional requirements including security, scalability, resiliency, observability, and cost management (preferred).
  • Experience operating in highly regulated environments (financial services strongly preferred).

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