About this role:

Wells Fargo is seeking an experienced Forward Deployed AI Specialist to help shape the future of AI-powered work across Commercial Banking and Corporate & Investment Banking. This is a hands-on individual contributor opportunity to combine deep technical AI expertise with the ability to partner directly with business stakeholders to solve complex, high-value problems.

As a Forward Deployed AI Specialist, you will embed with business, product, and operational teams to understand real-world workflows, identify opportunities for agentic AI, and rapidly design and prototype solutions that deliver measurable value. You will work at the intersection of business, technology, data, and risk — building solutions that are innovative, practical, and deployable within a highly regulated environment.
Successful candidates are equally comfortable engaging with senior business leaders, working hands-on with modern AI technologies, and partnering with technology teams to transition solutions from prototype to production.

In this role, you will:

• Partner directly with business, product, and operational teams to understand workflows, pain points, controls, and opportunities for transformation

• Design, develop, and prototype agentic AI solutions that improve productivity, decision-making, and operational effectiveness

• Translate business requirements into technical designs, workflows, and proof-of-concept solutions

• Leverage modern AI techniques including large language models (LLMs), agentic systems, retrieval-augmented generation (RAG), tool use, orchestration frameworks, and evaluation methodologies

• Collaborate closely with Technology teams to industrialize and deploy solutions into production

• Work with Risk, Compliance, Legal, Privacy, Information Security, and other control partners to ensure solutions are explainable, auditable, and aligned with governance standards

• Contribute reusable patterns, capabilities, tools, evaluations, and reference architectures that can be leveraged across multiple business domains

• Stay current on emerging AI technologies, frameworks, and best practices while helping raise AI fluency across the organization

• Drive solutions from concept through implementation with a strong focus on measurable business outcomes

Required Qualifications:

• 7+ years of Artificial Intelligence Solutions experience, or equivalent demonstrated through one or a combination of the following: work experience, training, military experience, education

Desired Qualifications:

• 7+ years of experience in software development, AI/ML, data science, solution architecture, or a related technical discipline

• Demonstrated hands-on experience building and deploying AI-powered solutions

• Strong understanding of modern AI technologies, including:

  • Large Language Models (LLMs)

  • Agentic and multi-agent architectures

  • Retrieval-Augmented Generation (RAG)

  • Tool and workflow orchestration

  • Prompt engineering and evaluation frameworks

  • Knowledge retrieval and context management

• Experience translating business needs into technical solutions

• Ability to rapidly prototype while maintaining a production-oriented mindset

• Experience operating within regulated, risk-managed, or control-intensive environments

• Strong communication and stakeholder management skills with the ability to engage effectively across business, technology, and control functions

• Experience within commercial banking, corporate banking, capital markets, lending, client onboarding, financial crimes, deal execution, sales/origination, trading, or related financial services domains

• Experience building AI solutions within enterprise environments

• Knowledge of model governance, AI risk management, responsible AI, privacy, and information security practices

• Experience with cloud-based AI platforms, enterprise data ecosystems, and production AI deployment patterns

• Proven ability to operate in highly collaborative, cross-functional environments

• Experience delivering AI capabilities that have achieved measurable business impact

Job Expectations:

• This position is not eligible for Visa sponsorship

• Specific compliance policies may apply regarding outside activities or personal investing; affected employees will be expected to provide information to the Wells Fargo Personal Account Dealing Team and abide by applicable policy requirements if hired. Information will be shared about expectations during the recruitment process

• Ability to travel up to 30% of the time

This position offers a hybrid work schedulefrom one of the following locations:

• 2700 S Price Road A Building Chandler, Arizona 85286

• 333 Market Street San Francisco, California 94105

• 400 Hamilton Avenue Palo Alto, California 94301

• 1800 Century Park E Los Angeles, California 90067

• 333 S Grand Avenue Los Angeles, California 90071

• 1700 K Street NW Ste 103 Washington, DC 20006

• 1699 Coral Way Miami, Florida 33145

• 1100 Abernathy Rd Atlanta, Georgia 30328

• 10 S Wacker Drive Chicago, Illinois 60606

• 125 High Street Boston, Massachusetts 02110

• 600 S 4th Street Minneapolis, Minnesota

• 114 N Beaumont Street Bldg D St. Louis, Missouri 63103

• 550 S Tryon Street Charlotte, North Carolina 28202

• 1525 W W T Harris Blvd Charlotte, North Carolina 28262

• 100 N 18th Street Philadelphia, Pennsylvania 19103

• 401 Las Colinas Blvd W Irving, Texas 75039

• 1000 Louisiana Street Houston, Texas 77002

• 1021 E Cary Street Richmond, Virginia 23219

• 999 3rd Avenue Seattle, Washington 98104

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Pay Range:

$185,000.00 - $300,000.00 USD Annual
Eligible for discretionary annual bonus

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.

Posting End Date:

*Job posting may come down early due to volume of applicants.