Principal AI Engineer – AI Acceleration & Enterprise Enablement

U.S. Bank • Atlanta, GA

4d • $149,515 - $175,900 • Hybrid

About The Position

U.S. Bank is seeking a Principal AI Engineer to accelerate enterprise-wide AI adoption. This senior individual contributor role combines hands-on engineering and technical leadership to identify high-value AI opportunities and build secure, scalable, production-ready solutions. The engineer will collaborate across business and technology teams to develop AI capabilities, reusable frameworks, and intelligent automation solutions while helping teams strengthen their AI engineering expertise.

Requirements

• Bachelor's degree or equivalent work experience.
• Eight or more years of relevant experience.

Nice To Haves

• Experience designing and delivering enterprise AI, Generative AI, or intelligent automation solutions.
• Strong hands-on experience with Python, APIs, pipelines, and modern software engineering practices.
• Demonstrated experience solving problems involving complex unstructured documents or data, including extraction methods, accuracy improvement, and solutions operating at scale.
• Experience with LLMs, Agentic AI, RAG, prompt engineering, and AI orchestration frameworks.
• Experience with AI/ML platforms, MLOps, model lifecycle management, or AI governance.
• Experience building reusable AI frameworks, accelerators, developer tools, or enterprise integrations.
• Experience with cloud AI services, preferably Azure AI and/or Azure OpenAI.
• Strong understanding of secure, scalable, production-quality software engineering.
• Ability to provide technical leadership, consult across organizations, influence senior stakeholders, and communicate complex AI concepts to technical and non-technical audiences.
• Experience in financial services or another highly regulated industry.

Responsibilities

• 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.
• Build reusable AI frameworks, accelerators, components, and integration patterns to improve solution delivery.
• Partner with engineering, product, architecture, security, and business teams to assess AI use cases and design approaches that fit the enterprise environment.
• Establish engineering practices for testing, security, software quality, scalability, and deployment.
• Provide technical leadership, mentor engineering teams, and help expand AI capabilities across the organization.

Benefits

• Healthcare, including 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 hours worked, up to 80 hours per calendar year unless otherwise provided by law.
• Incentive and recognition programs.
• Equity stock purchase, 401(k) contribution, and pension, subject to eligibility requirements.

What This Job Offers

• Job Type: Full-time
• Career Level: Principal