Lead Artificial Intelligence Engineer

Federal Home Loan Bank of Dallas; Las Vegas (NV); On-site; USD 140,000 - 210,000; Full time

Job summary

Credit One Bank, N.A. seeks a Lead Artificial Intelligence Engineer to design and deploy scalable, explainable ML/AI solutions for fraud detection, credit risk, and analytics. The role emphasizes MLOps, governance, and regulatory documentation while collaborating with risk and compliance teams.

Responsibilities include model development, training, deployment, monitoring, and retraining across cloud platforms and data platforms for large-scale financial data.

Qualifications

• Bachelor’s degree in Computer Science, Engineering, Data Science, or related field.
• 3–7 years of experience in AI/ML or data science.
• Experience working with large-scale financial or transactional data is preferred.

Responsibilities

• Develop, train, and optimize ML, deep learning, and Generative AI models.
• Implement data pipelines, feature engineering, and model inference services.
• Deploy and monitor models using enterprise MLOps practices.
• Support model explainability, bias analysis, and regulatory documentation.
• Collaborate with data engineers, risk, and compliance teams.

Skills

Supervised learning

Unsupervised learning

Reinforcement learning

Deep learning

NLP

LLMs

Generative AI

MLOps

Feature stores

Vector databases

Model registries

CI/CD for ML

GPU compute

Azure ML

SageMaker

Databricks

Snowflake

Synapse

Python

PyTorch

TensorFlow

JAX

LangChain

Vector embeddings

Education

Bachelor’s degree in Computer Science, Engineering, Data Science, or related field

Tools

Databricks

Snowflake

Synapse

Kubernetes

Docker

Git

MLflow

Job description

Description Position Summary

The Lead Artificial Intelligence Engineer develops and produces AI and machine learning solutions supporting banking and credit card businesses. This role focuses on building scalable, explainable, and compliant AI models for fraud detection, credit risk, customer analytics, and operational intelligence.

Essential Job Functions

• Develop, train, and optimize ML, deep learning, and Generative AI models.
• Implement data pipelines, feature engineering, and model inference services.
• Deploy and monitor models using enterprise MLOps practices.
• Support model explainability, bias analysis, and regulatory documentation.
• Collaborate with data engineers, risk, and compliance teams.

Position Requirements Core AI Concepts And Technologies Required

Machine Learning & Modeling

• Supervised, unsupervised, reinforcement learning
• Deep learning (CNNs, RNNs, Transformers)
• Natural Language Processing (NLP) & LLMs
• Generative AI (diffusion models, fine-tuning, RAG)

AI Engineering & MLOps

• Model training, deployment, monitoring, and retraining
• Feature stores, vector databases, and model registries
• CI/CD pipelines for ML (MLOps)
• GPU/accelerator compute architectures

Cloud & Infrastructure

• Azure AI, Azure ML, AWS Sagemaker, or Google Vertex AI
• Kubernetes, containerization, microservices
• Data platforms (Databricks, Snowflake, Synapse)

Responsible AI & Governance

• Model explainability (SHAP, LIME)
• Fairness, bias detection, model risk controls
• Privacy-preserving ML techniques (differential privacy, federated learning)

Programming & Tooling

• Python, PyTorch, TensorFlow, JAX
• LangChain, semantic search, vector embeddings
• Prompt engineering & LLM orchestration frameworks

Preferred

• Bachelor’s degree in Computer Science, Engineering, Data Science, or related field.
• 3–7 years of experience in AI/ML or data science.
• Experience working with large-scale financial or transactional data is preferred.

Credit One Bank, N.A. is a data-driven financial services company based in Las Vegas. Founded in 1984, Credit One Bank offers a spectrum of credit card products for people in all stages of financial life. Credit One Bank is an equal opportunity employer committed to diversity and inclusion and does not discriminate against any employee or applicant for employment because of age, race, religion, color, disability, sex, sexual orientation, or national origin. Reasonable accommodations can be made for those who require them, including access to job applications and workplace accommodations. Employment at Credit One Bank is based on mutual consent (also known as at-will). This means that employees and the Bank may terminate the employment relationship at any time, with or without cause and with or without notice.