Principal AI Engineer – AI Acceleration & Enterprise Enablement

The Principal AI Engineer will serve as a senior individual contributor focused on accelerating enterprise adoption of AI. This role blends hands-on engineering with technical leadership to find high-value AI opportunities and deliver secure, scalable, production-ready solutions across business and technology teams.

• Design, build, and deliver enterprise AI and Generative AI solutions from concept through production.
• Develop scalable AI solutions using Python
  , APIs, pipelines, and cloud AI services
  .
• Build solutions for complex structured and unstructured information, including document intelligence
  , data extraction
  , and workflow automation
  .
• Apply LLMs
  , Agentic AI
  , RAG
  , and prompt engineering to appropriate business use cases.
• Create reusable AI frameworks, accelerators, components, and integration patterns that improve delivery speed and consistency.
• Partner with engineering, product, architecture, security, and business teams to evaluate where AI is the right solution and design practical approaches for an enterprise environment.
• Establish strong engineering practices across testing, security, software quality, scalability, and deployment.
• Provide technical leadership, mentor engineering teams, and support the expansion of AI engineering capabilities across the organization.

• Bachelor's degree
  , or equivalent work experience.
• Eight (8) or more years of relevant experience.

• Python
• LLMs
• Agentic AI
• RAG
• Prompt engineering
• APIs
• Pipelines
• Cloud AI services
• Azure AI
• Azure OpenAI

Charlotte, NC (onsite). The role requires working from a U.S. Bank location three (3) or more days per week
.

USD 149,515 to 175,900 per year.

• Healthcare: medical, dental, and 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