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