Lead Specialty Software Engineer (Gen AI)

About this role
Wells Fargo is seeking a Lead Specialty Software Engineer (GenAI) to design, develop, and deliver enterprise-grade Generative AI solutions that drive automation, improve operational efficiency, and support modernization. This role blends hands-on engineering, GenAI system design, and technical leadership, leveraging the enterprise AI ecosystem-including Tachyon GenAI Studio, RAG frameworks, and approved LLM platforms.
The Lead Engineer will partner across product, architecture, data, cyber, and risk teams to ensure high-quality GenAI delivery aligned with Wells Fargo engineering standards and the Product Operating Model.
In this role, you will:

• Lead complex initiatives, ensuring systems are monitored, efficient, and risk-mitigated while identifying opportunities to optimize processes and reduce cost.
• Design, architect, and implement end-to-end GenAI solutions-including RAG pipelines, multi-agent workflows, prompt frameworks, evaluation tooling, and safety controls-aligned with enterprise engineering, privacy, security, and governance standards.
• Build scalable APIs, backend services, retrieval systems, and vector-storage patterns; select appropriate LLMs, embeddings, and retrieval strategies based on business needs and cost/performance constraints.
• Write production-grade code (Python, Java, or Node) and lead development of advanced GenAI features such as tool-calling, hybrid retrieval, workflow automation, and model-evaluation pipelines.
• Provide architectural guidance, code reviews, hands-on debugging, and mentorship to elevate engineering quality, velocity, and modern DevOps practices (CI/CD, test automation, telemetry).
• Leverage the Tachyon GenAI ecosystem-GenAI Studio, sandbox environments, prototyping APIs, and fine-tuning-to build reusable components, standardize retrieval patterns, and support enterprise-wide adoption.
• Ensure robust governance and security through content-filtering, PII/PHI-safe patterns, prompt-hardening, adversarial testing, secure-development practices, and complete documentation for risk, cyber, and audit reviews.
• Collaborate with product managers, architects, data engineers, cyber, risk, and operations teams to define use cases, estimate effort, plan work, and deliver multi-team GenAI initiatives within the Product Operating Model.
• Communicate technical decisions clearly to stakeholders and leaders, partner effectively with production support and platform engineering, and lead teams to meet objectives.
• Mentor less-experienced engineers and contribute to overall engineering excellence across teams.

Required Qualifications:

• 5+ years of Specialty Software Engineering experience, or equivalent demonstrated through one or a combination of the following: work experience, training, military experience, education
• 3+ years with Microsoft Dynamics 365
• 1+ year of experience with GenAI experience

Desired Qualifications

• Experience with enterprise GenAI environments (e.g., Tachyon GenAI Studio).
• Familiarity with multi-agent orchestration, embeddings, retrieval optimization, and evaluation methods.
• Understanding of enterprise security, AI governance, or model-risk frameworks.
• Experience coaching engineers or leading scrum teams.
• 5+ years of backend or full-stack engineering; strong distributed-systems experience.
• 2+ years working with LLMs, GenAI, agent frameworks, vector DBs, or RAG systems.
• Hands-on experience with Python and/or Java; familiarity with LangChain, LlamaIndex, HuggingFace, etc.
• Experience deploying on AWS/Azure and containerized environments.
• Strong knowledge of data engineering, APIs, microservices, and observability.

Job Expectations:

• This position offers a hybrid work schedule.
• Relocation assistance is not available for this position
• Ability to travel up to 5% of the time

Posting End Date:
6 Feb 2026
*Job posting may come down early due to volume of applicants.
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