Generative AI Senior Software Engineer for Cloud and LLM API Systems

About this role:
Wells Fargo is seeking a Generative AI Senior Software Engineer for Cloud and LLM API Systems within Digital Technology - AI Capability Engineering to design, build, and operate platform's poly-cloud foundation across GCP/Azure and on-prem OpenShift (OCP). This hands-on platform engineer will cover landing zones, network/IAM, secure perimeter patterns (e.g., VPC-SC/Private Service Connect), infrastructure-as-code provisioning, platform services, observability, DR/BCP, content security, and capacity planning to support Gen AI Studio, APIs, Guardrails, and agent workloads. This role is full stack in addition to infrastructure engineering, you will build automation services and UI experiences that enable onboarding, visibility, and operational workflows across environments. The role requires strong Kubernetes fundamentals (preferably GKE) and hands on knowledge of GenAI concepts to support state-of-the-art platform delivery.
In this role, you will:

• Lead moderately complex initiatives and deliverables within technical domain environments
• Contribute to large scale planning of strategies
• Design, code, test, debug, and document for projects and programs associated with technology domain, including upgrades and deployments
• Review moderately complex technical challenges that require an in-depth evaluation of technologies and procedures
• Resolve moderately complex issues and lead a team to meet existing client needs or potential new clients needs while leveraging solid understanding of the function, policies, procedures, or compliance requirements
• Collaborate and consult with peers, colleagues, and mid-level managers to resolve technical challenges and achieve goals
• Lead projects and act as an escalation point, provide guidance and direction to less experienced staff

Required Qualifications:

• 4+ years of Software Engineering experience, or equivalent demonstrated through one or a combination of the following: work experience, training, military experience, education

Desired Qualifications:

• Hands-on experience engineering cloud landing zones (projects/subscriptions, org policies, VPC/VNETs, firewalls, service perimeters) and documenting control plane vs compute plane topology patterns
• Experience provisioning resources in GCP and Azure using Terraform (IaC), including secrets integration patterns with HashiCorp Vault
• Experience implementing secure hybrid connectivity (peering/PSC, DNS, egress) between on-prem OCP and cloud environments to support API calls to model endpoints and internal services
• Strong Kubernetes knowledge (preferably GKE) and experience hosting applications on Kubernetes platforms (GKE/OCP or similar)
• Experience establishing observability baselines and dashboards for runtime inferencing paths (latency, error rate, tokens/sec, TTFB) and operating SLO views
• Python experience building automation, platform services, and tooling to support provisioning, operations, and developer workflows
• UI skills: experience building internal portals/dashboards for onboarding, operational visibility, and workflow execution (developer/ops experiences)
• GenAI experience: understanding of GenAI concepts (LLMs, RAG, LLM architecture) to support day-to-day platform design decisions and delivery

Pay Range
Reflected is the base pay range offered for this position. Pay may vary depending on factors including but not limited to demonstrated examples of prior performance, skills, experience, or work location. Employees may also be eligible for incentive opportunities.
$100,000.00 - $196,000.00
Benefits
Wells Fargo provides eligible employees with a comprehensive set of benefits, many of which are listed below. Visit Benefits - Wells Fargo Jobs for an overview of the following benefit plans and programs offered to employees.

• Health benefits
• 401(k) Plan
• Paid time off
• Disability benefits
• Life insurance, critical illness insurance, and accident insurance
• Parental leave
• Critical caregiving leave
• Discounts and savings
• Commuter benefits
• Tuition reimbursement
• Scholarships for dependent children
• Adoption reimbursement

Posting End Date:
5 Feb 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.
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