Principal Engineer Gen AI

About this role:

Wells Fargo is seeking a Principal Engineer - Gen AI.

In this role you will:

• Act as an advisor to leadership to develop or influence applications network information security database operating systems or web technologies for highly complex business and technical needs across multiple groups

• Lead the strategy and resolution of highly complex and unique challenges requiring in-depth evaluation across multiple areas or the enterprise delivering solutions that are long-term large-scale and require vision creativity innovation advanced analytical and inductive thinking

• Translate advanced technology experience an in-depth knowledge of the organizations tactical and strategic business objectives the enterprise technological environment the organization structure and strategic technological opportunities and requirements into technical engineering solutions

• Provide vision direction and expertise to leadership on implementing innovative and significant business solutions

• Maintain knowledge of industry best practices and new technologies and recommends innovations that enhance operations or provide a competitive advantage to the organization

• Strategically engage with all levels of professionals and managers across the enterprise and serve as an expert advisor to leadership

Required Qualifications:

• 7 years of Engineering experience or equivalent demonstrated through one or a combination of the following: work experience training military experience education

Desired Qualifications:

• Deep end-to-end GenAI stack expertise including LLMs RAG vector databases prompt engineering fine-tuning LLMOps observability and production deployment.

  Strong expertise in Agentic AI platforms and multi-agent architectures including planning reasoning memory management tool orchestration workflow automation and autonomous execution frameworks.

• Demonstrated leadership in AI evaluations benchmarking and model quality assurance with experience in red teaming safety testing performance measurement and continuous evaluation frameworks.

• Expert knowledge of AI guardrails Responsible AI and GenAI governance covering model lifecycle management compliance auditability policy enforcement risk controls and enterprise governance frameworks.

• Deep understanding of GenAI cybersecurity risks and mitigations including prompt injection jailbreaks data leakage model abuse supply chain risks OWASP LLM Top 10 MITRE ATLAS and AI security best practices.

Posting End Date:

*Job posting may come down early due to volume of applicants.

We Value Equal Opportunity

Wells Fargo is an equal opportunity employer. All qualified applicants will receive consideration for employment without regard to race color religion sex sexual orientation gender identity national origin disability status as a protected veteran or any other legally protected characteristic.

Employees support our focus on building strong customer relationships balanced with a strong risk mitigating and compliance-driven culture which firmly establishes those disciplines as critical to the success of our customers and company. They are accountable for execution of all applicable risk programs (Credit Market Financial Crimes Operational Regulatory Compliance) which includes effectively following and adhering to applicable Wells Fargo policies and procedures appropriately fulfilling risk and compliance obligations timely and effective escalation and remediation of issues and making sound risk decisions. There is emphasis on proactive monitoring governance risk identification and escalation as well as making sound risk decisions commensurate with the business units risk appetite and all risk and compliance program requirements.

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