Generative AI Engineer - Banking & Enterprise AI

City National Bank; Torch of Friendship (FL); Hybrid; USD 120,000 - 180,000; Full time

Job summary

City National Bank of Florida seeks a hands-on Machine Learning / AI Engineer to build enterprise-grade AI applications, RAG systems, and agentic AI workflows for banking use cases such as document analysis, credit writing, and risk management.

The role emphasizes practical Python engineering, deploying LLM-powered solutions, secure data handling, and CI/CD practices. Familiarity with Azure OpenAI, LangChain/LangGraph, and production-grade services is essential.

Qualifications

• 4-5 years of professional software development experience with strong hands-on Python proficiency.
• Experience with FastAPI, REST APIs, Pydantic, SQL, Git, pytest, and debugging.

Responsibilities

• Design, develop, test, and maintain production-quality Python applications for generative AI and applied machine learning.
• Build RAG pipelines with document ingestion, parsing, chunking, embeddings, metadata filtering, hybrid search, reranking, and grounded response generation.
• Develop AI agents and workflow components using LangChain v1 and LangGraph.
• Integrate Azure OpenAI models and Azure AI Search into enterprise AI applications.
• Implement structured outputs using Pydantic, schema validation, deterministic business rules, and robust error handling.
• Build document validation, financial data extraction, summarization, classification, and analysis components.
• Implement automated evaluation datasets and tests to measure retrieval quality, answer correctness, grounding, and regression.
• Develop REST APIs and backend services using FastAPI or an equivalent Python framework.
• Write unit tests, integration tests, and mock-based tests; participate in code reviews and continuous integration.
• Implement secure handling of sensitive banking information, prompt-injection defenses, input validation, and appropriate AI guardrails.
• Deploy containerized applications and contribute to Azure monitoring, logging, troubleshooting, and performance optimization.
• Collaborate with senior engineers, AI leadership, business stakeholders, and risk and compliance teams.

Skills

Python proficiency

OOP & data structures

REST APIs

pytest & debugging

CI/CD basics

Unit testing

Code reviews

Education

Bachelor's degree

Master's preferred

Tools

OpenAI/Azure OpenAI

LangChain

LangGraph

Azure

Docker

SQL

Pydantic

FastAPI

Job description

City National Bank of Florida seeks a hands-on Machine Learning / AI Engineer to build enterprise-grade AI applications, RAG systems, and agentic AI workflows for banking use cases such as document analysis, credit writing, and risk management.

The role emphasizes practical Python engineering, deploying LLM-powered solutions, secure data handling, and CI/CD practices. Familiarity with Azure OpenAI, LangChain/LangGraph, and production-grade services is essential.