AI Engineer I — Enterprise AI Solutions

Aimlroles; Palo Alto (CA); On-site; USD 120,000 - 160,000; Full time

Job summary

American Express is seeking an AI Engineer I for its Enterprise Technology Services' graduate program in Palo Alto. You'll join a full-time program and contribute to building, testing, and scaling AI-enabled solutions across platforms and teams.

You'll collaborate with engineering, product, data, and security partners on model training, data pipelines, retrieval patterns, and responsible AI practices, while engaging in Agile practices and documenting decisions for reproducibility.

Qualifications

• Must have earned a Master’s degree in Computer Science, ML, Data Science, AI, or a related field.
• Strong Python programming and data processing fundamentals.
• Foundational CS concepts: data structures, algorithms, OOP, debugging, testing.
• Foundational ML concepts: supervised/unsupervised learning, model training, evaluation, feature engineering.
• Familiarity with LLM APIs and prompt-based interactions.
• Ability to support AI/ML development, testing, and data pipelines under guidance.
• Awareness of responsible AI, safety, governance, and security.

Responsibilities

• Support development, testing, and integration of AI/ML models, LLM integrations, intelligent services, or data retrieval pipelines under guidance.
• Assist with data collection, preprocessing, transformation, and validation to support model training, testing, evaluation, and implementation.
• Contribute to debugging and improving AI-enabled solutions to strengthen performance, reliability, explainability, maintainability, and quality.
• Support AI capabilities such as model training workflows, inference endpoints, prompt-based interactions, evaluation routines, retrieval patterns, AI agents, or agentic workflows.
• Collaborate with engineering, product, data, risk, security, and business partners to implement AI-driven solutions aligned to business requirements.
• Document model parameters, prompts, assumptions, data pipelines, integrations, and technical decisions to support reproducibility and knowledge sharing.
• Participate in Agile development practices, including sprint planning, stand-ups, demos, retrospectives, code reviews, and team ceremonies.
• Assist in ensuring AI systems and AI-enabled features align with enterprise expectations for reliability, safety, governance, security, compliance, and appropriate escalation.

Skills

Python

Data processing

Model training

Machine learning concepts

Communication

Learning agility

Team collaboration

Debugging/testing

Education

Master’s degree in Computer Science / ML / Data Science / AI

Tools

Git

Docker

LLM APIs

Cloud environments

Data pipelines

Job description

American Express is seeking an AI Engineer I for its Enterprise Technology Services' graduate program in Palo Alto. You'll join a full-time program and contribute to building, testing, and scaling AI-enabled solutions across platforms and teams.

You'll collaborate with engineering, product, data, and security partners on model training, data pipelines, retrieval patterns, and responsible AI practices, while engaging in Agile practices and documenting decisions for reproducibility.