Wells Fargo · 2 hours ago
Lead Software Engineer - Gen AI Inferencing Services and Agentic AI
CONCORD, NC
Full-time
Hybrid
Senior Level, Lead/Staff
5+ years expWells Fargo is seeking a Lead Software Engineer — LLM Inferencing & Agentic AI within Digital Technology’s AI Capability Engineering organization. In this role, you will design, build, and operate the GenAI Platform’s GPU infrastructure and LLM/SLM serving systems, ensuring highly performant, reliable, and secure model inferencing at scale.
BankingFinancial ServicesFinTechInsurancePayments
No H1B
Responsibilities
Lead complex technology initiatives including those that are companywide with broad impact
Act as a key participant in developing standards and companywide best practices for engineering complex and large scale technology solutions for technology engineering disciplines
Design, code, test, debug, and document for projects and programs
Review and analyze complex, large-scale technology solutions for tactical and strategic business objectives, enterprise technological environment, and technical challenges that require in-depth evaluation of multiple factors, including intangibles or unprecedented technical factors
Make decisions in developing standard and companywide best practices for engineering and technology solutions requiring understanding of industry best practices and new technologies, influencing and leading technology team to meet deliverables and drive new initiatives
Collaborate and consult with key technical experts, senior technology team, and external industry groups to resolve complex technical issues and achieve goals
Lead projects, teams, or serve as a peer mentor
Engineer GPU clusters and node pools; configure NVLink/NVSwitch, NVIDIA GPU Operator, MIG profiles, container runtime, and kernel/driver baselines for high‑throughput LLM/SLM workloads
Design and implement OpenAI‑compatible APIs (Responses, Interactions) behind the AI Gateway: define OpenAPI contracts, authN/Z (OAuth2/mTLS), rate limits/quotas, SLAs, versioning/deprecation, and SDK generation
Build and support MCP servers and tool adapters; manage agent/tool identity and capability metadata; integrate with agent registries and execution flows
Develop Agentic AI capabilities (tools/agents/workflows) including disaggregated prefill/decode patterns; contribute to runbooks, guardrails, and safe tool usage
Build UI surfaces (developer/ops consoles) for endpoint onboarding, prompt testing, evaluations, observability dashboards, and incident response workflows
Apply prompt engineering and evaluation best practices; create golden test suites, regression harnesses, and measurable SLO‑aligned criteria for production promotion
Qualification
Required
5+ years of Software Engineering experience, or equivalent demonstrated through one or a combination of the following: work experience, training, military experience, education
Preferred
5+ years of experience in Python for backend/services development, packaging, instrumentation, and automation
5+ years of experience building modern web UI for developer/ops workflows, including dashboards, wizards, and prompt/eval tooling, with strong testing and accessibility practices
1+ years of experience building MCP servers, tool adapters, and agent workflows, with an understanding of agent identity, permissions, and governance metadata
2+ years of experience in GenAI engineering, including LLM/SLM operations, fine‑tuning/evaluation, per‑model performance recipes, and prompt engineering and evaluation harnesses
1+ years of experience with LLM API exposure, including AI Gateway — OAuth2/mTLS, rate limits/quotas, OpenAPI/SDKs, SLAs, versioning/deprecation, and OpenAI‑compatible API design for responses and interactions
1+ years of experience with serving large language models (LLM/SLM), including vLLM, Triton, TensorRT‑LLM/MII, KV cache strategies, FP8/INT4 AWQ/GPTQ, and certified disaggregated prefill/decode
1+ years of experience with orchestration tools for GPU workload management, such as Run:AI (Collections/queues, quotas, preemption, fair share), OpenShift AI (RHOAI), and OCP/GKE administration
1+ years of experience with GPU Inference Layer, including NVIDIA and CUDA technologies such as CUDA, cuDNN, NVLink/NVSwitch, MIG, NIXL, GPU profiling, and H100/H200 performance tuning
Company
Wells Fargo
Wells Fargo & Company is a financial services firm that provides banking, insurance, investments, and mortgage services.
10001+ employees
Funding
Current Stage
Public CompanyTotal Funding
unknown1978-10-06IPO
Leadership Team
Charlie Scharf
CEO
Fernando Rivas
CEO of Corporate & Investment Banking
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