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The Role
Lead AI architecture and engineering for enterprise agentic AI systems. Define standards for RAG, agents, orchestration, evaluation, security, and governance; provide hands-on technical leadership, mentor engineers, and align cross-functional stakeholders to deliver secure, compliant AI solutions.
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About this role
Wells Fargo is seeking a Principal Engineer in Corporate and Investment Banking to serve as a senior technical authority for AI solutions. This role defines architecture, design, engineering standards, and delivery patterns for secure, resilient, and governed agentic AI systems.
In this role you will
Architecture & Technical Strategy
26 Sep 2026
*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 unit's risk appetite and all risk and compliance program requirements.
Candidates applying to job openings posted in Canada: Applications for employment are encouraged from all qualified candidates, including women, persons with disabilities, aboriginal peoples and visible minorities. Accommodation for applicants with disabilities is available upon request in connection with the recruitment process.
Applicants with Disabilities
To request a medical accommodation during the application or interview process, visit Disability Inclusion at Wells Fargo .
Drug and Alcohol Policy
Wells Fargo maintains a drug free workplace. Please see our Drug and Alcohol Policy to learn more.
Wells Fargo Recruitment and Hiring Requirements:
a. Third-Party recordings are prohibited unless authorized by Wells Fargo.
b. Wells Fargo requires you to directly represent your own experiences during the recruiting and hiring process.
#BI-Hybrid
Wells Fargo is seeking a Principal Engineer in Corporate and Investment Banking to serve as a senior technical authority for AI solutions. This role defines architecture, design, engineering standards, and delivery patterns for secure, resilient, and governed agentic AI systems.
In this role you will
- Serve as a senior technical authority for AI engineering strategy, architecture, and implementation across complex, multi-domain initiatives.
- Design, build and guide enterprise-grade AI systems including RAG platforms, agentic workflows, chat experiences, orchestration layers, evaluation pipelines, and reusable AI services.
- Establish scalable, secure, and compliant architecture patterns for Agentic solutions using industry standard frameworks.
- Provide hands-on technical leadership across MCP, Python, TypeScript, React, APIs, OpenShift, Kubernetes, and CI/CD engineering practices.
- Build AI solutions including Agents, chatbots, RAG & Knowledge platforms, Skill based agents, workflow automation, and AI-enabled developer experiences
- Define engineering standards for prompt engineering, skill engineering, model evaluation, observability, guardrails, red teaming, hallucination detection, and responsible AI adoption.
- Partner with engineering leads, product owners, cybersecurity, governance, risk, platform, and UI/UX teams to align technical direction with strategic business outcomes.
- Mentor senior engineers and technical leads, raising engineering quality through architecture reviews, code reviews, reusable patterns, technical coaching, and design governance.
- Resolve the most complex technical challenges across AI pipelines, model integrations, infrastructure, application resiliency, security controls, and production operations.
Architecture & Technical Strategy
- Define target-state architecture, reusable design patterns, and technical standards for AI systems.
- Guide architecture decisions across model integration, retrieval design, orchestration, workflow automation, security, observability, and application experience layers.
- Evaluate emerging AI technologies and translate them into practical, governed, production-ready engineering patterns.
- Lead proof-of-concepts, design reviews, code reviews, and technical deep dives for high-impact AI initiatives.
- Establish best practices for AI applications in coding, API design, testing, deployment automation, runtime monitoring, and operational readiness.
- Improve developer productivity through reusable libraries, templates, refer
- ence implementations, and engineering enablement.
- Ensure AI systems are designed with appropriate controls for security, data protection, access management, auditability, and model risk.
- Define and promote responsible AI practices including evaluation, explainability considerations, fallback behavior, guardrails, and human-in-the-loop review where appropriate.
- Partner with cybersecurity, governance, compliance, and platform teams to ensure solutions meet enterprise and regulatory expectations.
- Influence cross-team technical decisions and align stakeholders around scalable, secure, and maintainable AI engineering approaches.
- Mentor senior engineers and engineering leads through technical coaching, architecture guidance, and hands-on problem solving.
- Communicate technical trade-offs, risks, delivery considerations, and architectural direction to senior leaders and cross-functional partners.
- Experience of Technology Strategic Leadership experience, or equivalent demonstrated through one or a combination of the following: work experience, training, military experience, education
- Expert-level hands-on engineering experience with AI development in Python, TypeScript, React, APIs, distributed high-performance systems, and application delivery.
- Deep experience designing and delivering AI-enabled applications using agentic workflows, LLMs, RAG, model orchestration, embeddings, vector search, and model evaluation techniques.
- Experience with OpenAI, Anthropic, Google Vertex AI, GitHub Copilot or related AI developer ecosystems.
- Proven ability to influence technical strategy across teams without relying solely on direct reporting authority.
- Strong understanding of cybersecurity controls, data privacy, model risk management, governance, and compliance expectations in regulated financial-services environments.
- In-depth knowledge of industry trends and thought leadership in the development of AI solutions.
- Experience establishing AI platform capabilities, reference architectures or internal developer frameworks.
- Experience with vector databases, embeddings, hybrid search, Elasticsearch, Redis, ChromaDB, or similar retrieval technologies.
- Experience building high-availability banking, capital markets, or other regulated financial applications.
- Ability to build and communicate complex systems design decisions, trade-offs, risks, and delivery implications to senior technical stakeholders.
- This position offers a hybrid work schedule
- Relocation assistance is not available
- Visa sponsorship is not available
26 Sep 2026
*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 unit's risk appetite and all risk and compliance program requirements.
Candidates applying to job openings posted in Canada: Applications for employment are encouraged from all qualified candidates, including women, persons with disabilities, aboriginal peoples and visible minorities. Accommodation for applicants with disabilities is available upon request in connection with the recruitment process.
Applicants with Disabilities
To request a medical accommodation during the application or interview process, visit Disability Inclusion at Wells Fargo .
Drug and Alcohol Policy
Wells Fargo maintains a drug free workplace. Please see our Drug and Alcohol Policy to learn more.
Wells Fargo Recruitment and Hiring Requirements:
a. Third-Party recordings are prohibited unless authorized by Wells Fargo.
b. Wells Fargo requires you to directly represent your own experiences during the recruiting and hiring process.
#BI-Hybrid
Skills Required
- Technology strategic leadership experience
- Expert-level hands-on AI engineering with Python, TypeScript, React, APIs, distributed high-performance systems, and application delivery
- Deep experience with agentic workflows, LLMs, RAG, model orchestration, embeddings, vector search, and model evaluation techniques
- Experience with OpenAI, Anthropic, Google Vertex AI, GitHub Copilot or related AI developer ecosystems
- Proven ability to influence technical strategy across teams
- Strong understanding of cybersecurity controls, data privacy, model risk management, governance, and compliance in regulated financial services
- In-depth knowledge of industry trends and thought leadership in AI solution development
- Experience establishing AI platform capabilities, reference architectures or internal developer frameworks
- Experience with vector databases, embeddings, hybrid search, Elasticsearch, Redis, ChromaDB, or similar retrieval technologies
- Experience building high-availability banking, capital markets, or other regulated financial applications
- Ability to communicate complex system design decisions, trade-offs, risks, and delivery implications to senior stakeholders
Wells Fargo Compensation & Benefits Highlights
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Retirement Support — Retirement support is anchored by a dollar‑for‑dollar 401(k) match on employee contributions after one year of service, with an additional non‑matching company contribution for some lower‑paid employees. Access to an employee stock purchase plan further expands long‑term savings opportunities.
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Parental & Family Support — Family supports include up to 16 weeks of paid parental leave available from the first day of employment, plus paid critical‑caregiving leave and extensive backup care options. Fertility, adoption, and surrogacy programs are highlighted with meaningful coverage and reimbursements, including a combined lifetime maximum up to $35,000 for eligible expenses.
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Healthcare Strength — Health coverage is comprehensive from day one, spanning medical, dental, vision, mental health, prescriptions, and preventive care often fully covered in‑network. Employer cost‑sharing is emphasized alongside no‑cost counseling through the EAP within plan limits.
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The Company
What We Do
Wells Fargo & Company (NYSE: WFC) is a leading financial services company that has approximately $2.2 trillion in assets. We provide a diversified set of banking, investment and mortgage products and services, as well as consumer and commercial finance, through our four reportable operating segments: Consumer Banking and Lending, Commercial Banking, Corporate and Investment Banking, and Wealth & Investment Management. Wells Fargo ranked No. 33 on Fortune’s 2025 rankings of America’s largest corporations. Our technology professionals drive innovation, information security, and big data analytics while maintaining a network that handles more than 12 billion customer interactions a year. Join us! Are you looking for more? Find it here. At Wells Fargo, we're more than a financial services leader – we’re a global trailblazer committed to driving innovation, empowering communities, and helping our customers succeed. We believe that a meaningful career is much more than just a job – it’s about finding all of the elements to help you thrive, in one place. Living the Well Life means you’re supported in life, not just work. It means having robust benefits, competitive compensation, and programs designed to help you find work-life balance and well-being. You’ll be rewarded for investing in your community, celebrated for being your authentic self, and empowered to grow. And we’re recognized for it — Wells Fargo continues to rank on the LinkedIn Top Companies lists of best workplaces “to grow your career.” 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. © 2026 Wells Fargo Bank, N.A. All rights reserved. Member FDIC.
Why Work With Us
We're known for our “Well Life” approach to supporting employees’ career aspirations, work-life balance, and mental and physical health. Wells Fargo continues to rank on the LinkedIn Top Companies lists of best workplaces “to grow your career.”
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Hybrid Workspace
Employees engage in a combination of remote and on-site work.
Typical time on-site:
3 days a week
