Senior AI Engineer

Job Summary

Location: United States

Experience: 5+ years in production AI/data systems

Job Type: Permanent

Thinking Minds' client is looking for an experienced Senior AI Engineer to lead and build within the Data Governance Team. This role is crucial for designing, deploying, and operating governed AI solutions on the Bank's Databricks foundation. The engineer will translate business needs into scalable AI capabilities, ensuring measurable value in a regulated environment.

Ideal Candidate Should Have

Databricks expertise

AI architecture experience

Production code proficiency

Experience with retrieval-augmented generation

Understanding of Model Context Protocol

Role Overview

The Senior AI Engineer will act as a hands-on lead, writing production code and delivering agents and LLM applications while shaping the Bank's AI architecture on Databricks. The role involves designing, building, testing, deploying, and operating production agents using various AI patterns. The engineer will also configure and operate Databricks AI Gateway as the control point for model and agent access.

Key Responsibilities

Lead engineering efforts on Databricks

Design and deploy production agents

Build and integrate MCP clients and servers

Lead prompt and context engineering

Configure and operate Databricks AI Gateway

Establish agent identity and authorization patterns

Partner with business stakeholders to translate requirements

Manage backlog priorities and trade-off decisions

Top Skills and Modules

Databricks

AI architecture

Production engineering

Retrieval-augmented generation

Model Context Protocol

Prompt engineering

Context engineering

AI Gateway configuration