Lead Artificial Intelligence Engineer (Development & Infrastructure)
Job Location:
Hopkins, MN - USA
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Job Summary
At U.S. Bank were on a journey to do our best. Helping the customers and businesses we serve to make better and smarter financial decisions and enabling the communities we support to grow and succeed. We believe it takes all of us to bring our shared ambition to life and each person is unique in their potential. A career with U.S. Bank gives you a wide ever-growing range of opportunities to discover what makes you thrive at every stage of your career. Try new things learn new skills and discover what you excel atall from Day One.
Be a part of transformational change where integrity matters success inspires and great teams collaborate and innovate. As the fifth-largest bank in the United States were one of the countrys most respected innovative ethical and successful financial institutions. Were looking for people who want more than just a job they want to make a difference! U.S. Bank is seeking a Software Engineer who will contribute toward the success of our technology initiatives in our digital transformation journey.
This position will be responsible for the analysis design testing development and maintenance of best in class software experiences. The candidate is a self-motivated individual who can collaborate with a team and across the organization. The candidate takes responsibility of the software artifacts produced adhering to U.S. Bank standards in order to ensure minimal impact to the customer experience. The candidate will be adept with the agile software development lifecycle and DevOps principles.
Essential Responsibilities
- Contribute to designing developing testing operating and maintaining software and AI-enabled products with guidance from senior engineers
- Develop production-ready testable code for assigned components services and AI workflows
- Assist in building and integrating Generative AI solutions including Retrieval-Augmented Generation (RAG) pipelines using vector databases
- Support the development and enhancement of agentic AI systems such as task-oriented AI agents that can plan reason retrieve information and invoke tools under defined guardrails
- Follow established architectural patterns and best practices considering scalability reliability performance and cost when implementing AI-enabled solutions
- Assist with troubleshooting model/output quality issues and root-cause analysis for traditional software and AI components; propose fixes under guidance
- Make sound design and implementation decisions with customer and employee experience in mind; escalate risks and questions appropriately
- Incorporate feedback from code reviews and update implementations to meet engineering security and compliance standards
- Participate in code reviews (as author and reviewer) to learn and apply software and AI engineering best practices
- Follow compliance risk data privacy and security best practices in all phases of product and AI solution development
- Learn and apply software reliability engineering (SRE) practices and AI evaluation techniques embedded in the teams standards
- Stay curious about emerging technologies in GenAI agentic frameworks and vector search contributing ideas prototypes and proofs of concept
- Contribute to a culture of innovation collaboration and continuous improvement
- Communicate progress blockers and risks early; collaborate with the team to deliver well-scoped incremental features
Basic Qualifications
Bachelors degree in computer science Engineering or related field or equivalent practical experience
Six to eight years of relevant software engineering experience
Experience Should Include
- 10 years of overall software development experience in Python AND Java or other object-oriented languages
- 3 years of leading software projects with enterprise level solutions
- 2 -3 years of containerization & orchestration (Docker and Kubernetes Bedrock LLMs and vector databases
- 2-3 years of hands-on experience with Generative AI use cases including RAG architectures prompt engineering and evaluation approaches
- Experience building and integrating vector databases (e.g. FAISS Pinecone Weaviate OpenSearch Azure AI Search) for semantic search and AI-powered retrieval
- Exposure to agentic AI concepts such as multi-step reasoning tool invocation workflow orchestration and AI agents built using modern frameworks
- Practical experience building AI applications using LangChain and LangGraph including the design and orchestration of complex agent workflows and retrieval-augmented generation pipelines
- 23 years of experience building data-driven APIs and services using Python
- Exposure to Knowledge Graph concepts and graph databases (e.g. Neo4j TigerGraph) is a plus.
- Familiarity with modern UI frameworks (e.g. React) and how AI services integrate into user-facing applications is a plus
- Working knowledge of Agile software development lifecycle and DevOps practices
- Understanding of how AI-powered features impact user workflows decision-making and trust
- Growing understanding of responsible AI principles model limitations and guardrails in regulated environments
- Ability to collaborate across engineering product data and business teams
- Technical proficiency to help define and implement solution requirements for end users
- Ability to communicate processes design decisions and results with engineers product owners scrum masters vendors and stakeholders
- Solid understanding of algorithms data structures architectural design patterns and best practices
- Strong analytical problem-solving and learning mindset
***This role requires working from a U.S. Bank location three (3) or more days per week.***
If theres anything we can do to accommodate a disability during any portion of the application or hiring process please refer to ourdisability accommodations for applicants.
Benefits:
Our approach to benefits and total rewards considers our team members whole selves and what may be needed to thrive in and outside work. Thats why our benefits are designed to help you and your family boost your health protect your financial security and give you peace of mind. Our benefits include the following:
Healthcare (medical dental vision)
Basic term and optional term life insurance
Short-term and long-term disability
Pregnancy disability and parental leave
401(k) and employer-funded retirement plan
Paid vacation (from two to five weeks depending on salary grade and tenure)
Up to 11 paid holiday opportunities
Adoption assistance
Sick and Safe Leave accruals of one hour for every 30 worked up to 80 hours per calendar year unless otherwise provided by law
Review our full benefits available by employment status here.
U.S. Bank is an equal opportunity employer. We consider all qualified applicants without regard to race religion color sex national origin age sexual orientation gender identity disability or veteran status and other factors protected under applicable law.
E-Verify
U.S. Bank participates in the U.S. Department of Homeland Security E-Verify program in all facilities located in the United States and certain U.S. territories. The E-Verify program is an Internet-based employment eligibility verification system operated by the U.S. Citizenship and Immigration Services. Learn more about theE-Verify program.
The salary range reflects figures based on the primary location which is listed first. The actual range for the role may differ based on the location of the addition to salary U.S. Bank offers a comprehensive benefits package including incentive and recognition programs equity stock purchase 401(k) contribution and pension (all benefits are subject to eligibility requirements). Pay Range: $133365.00 - $156900.00U.S. Bank will consider qualified applicants with arrest or conviction records for employment. U.S. Bank conducts background checks consistent with applicable local laws including the Los Angeles County Fair Chance Ordinance and the California Fair Chance Act as well as the San Francisco Fair Chance Ordinance. U.S. Bank is subject to and conducts background checks consistent with the requirements of Section 19 of the Federal Deposit Insurance Act (FDIA). In addition certain positions may also be subject to the requirements of FINRA NMLS registration Reg Z Reg G OFAC the NFA the FCPA the Bank Secrecy Act the SAFE Act and/or federal guidelines applicable to an agreement such as those related to ethics safety or operational procedures.
Applicants must be able to comply with U.S. Bank policies and procedures including the Code of Ethics and Business Conduct and related workplace conduct and safety policies.
Posting may be closed earlier due to high volume of applicants.
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