Lead Artificial Intelligence Engineer (Development & Infrastructure

At U.S. Bank, we’re 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 at—all 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, we’re one of the country's most respected, innovative, ethical and successful financial institutions. We’re 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 Dev Ops principles.

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 team’s 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

Bachelor’s degree in computer science, Engineering, or related field, or equivalent practical experience

10+ years of overall software development experience in Python AND Java or other object-oriented languages

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-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,…