Senior AI Engineer

Schoolsfirst-Federal-Credit-Union; Sacramento (CA); On-site; USD 112,000 - 179,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Diversity & Inclusion

Job summary

SchoolsFirst FCU is seeking a Senior AI Engineer to design and deploy AI-enabled workflows and automation solutions. The role focuses on translating business needs into scalable technical capabilities, building integrations, and ensuring governance and security.

You’ll contribute to the enterprise AI roadmap, lead pilots, and support production deployments. Candidates should have extensive AI/automation experience, strong programming skills, and familiarity with cloud AI services.

Qualifications

• Bachelor's degree in a related field or equivalent experience.
• 5-7 years of relevant AI/automation experience.
• Experience with Azure AI Services, OpenAI, and RPA platforms.
• Proficiency in Python, SQL, APIs, and cloud architectures.
• Strong knowledge of security and governance for AI applications.

Responsibilities

• Designs, develops and supports AI-enabled workflows and solutions, automation and agentic solutions by translating business requirements into scalable technical capabilities.
• Evaluates and builds proofs of concept for AI-enabled workflows and automation, translating business requirements into scalable capabilities.
• Develops production-ready code, configurations and technical documentation while applying engineering practices.
• Mentors junior staff and promotes engineering best practices that improve solution quality and delivery.
• Ensures secure AI, governance, monitoring, and operational support across projects.

Skills

AI/ML concepts

Cloud architectures

Python

SQL

APIs

Education

Bachelor's degree

Tools

Azure AI Services

OpenAI

UiPath

Power Automate

AWS AI/ML

Job description

We’re always looking for diverse, talented, service-oriented people to join our exceptional team.Senior AI EngineerThe pay range for this position is listed below. Our pay ranges are built to allow for candidates with various levels of skill and experience to be considered, as well as for room for growth and tenure achieved in a role over time. Typical new hire salary offers fall within the minimum to midpoint of a pay range for many candidates. Any offer extended to a candidate will be based upon their unique set of knowledge, skills, education, and experience as well as internal equity.Pay Range:$112,185.00 - $179,496.00Scheduled Weekly Hours:40What You’ll Be DoingDesigns, develops and supports AI-enabled workflows and solutions, automation and agentic solutions by translating business requirements into scalable technical capabilities, building integrations and workflows, implementing governance and testing standards and supporting successful deployment and operational adoption.Evaluates and builds proofs of concept for AI-enabled workflows and solutions, automation and agentic solutions, translating business requirements into scalable technical capabilities.Designs, configures and implements AI and automation solutions including agents, prompts, retrieval-augmented generation (RAG), human-in-the-loop controls, tools and integrations across stand-alone and RPA workflows using approved platforms and adhering to enterprise architecture, security, data-validation and engineering standards.Develops and executes the enterprise AI and automation roadmap aligned with organizational objectives, leading automation initiatives through the full solution lifecycle from discovery, requirements gathering, design, development, testing, deployment, and ongoing support, while documenting reusable components, implementation patterns and lessons learned.Develops and maintains production-ready code, configurations and technical documentation while applying established engineering, version control, peer review and change management practices.Develops test strategies, evaluation datasets and automated validation frameworks to ensure accuracy, reliability, performance, resilience and responsible use of AI and automation solutions.Implements approved AI and automation security, data access, identity and governance controls in partnership with Architecture, Information Security and Data teams, ensuring automation and AI solutions are scalable, secure, maintainable, and compliant with organizational standards.Establishes monitoring, logging, alerting and operational support processes, including dashboards, runbooks, incident procedures and production support activities.Supports pilots, production readiness reviews, deployments and post-release validation to ensure successful implementation and operational adoption.Evaluates AI-enabled workflows/solutions, automation and agentic technologies through technical proofs of value and provides recommendations on platform, vendor and solution approaches.Mentors less-experienced teammembers, participates in technical reviews and promotes engineering best practices that improve solution quality, consistency and delivery effectiveness.Additional Job FunctionsPerforms other duties as assignedComplies with regulatory compliance and assigned training requirements including but not limited to BSA regulations corresponding to their specific job duties. Failure to do so may result in disciplinary and other employment related actions.QualificationsHigh School Diploma or GED requiredBachelor's Degree in a related field or equivalent years of experience required5-7 years of prior relevant experience requiredMicrosoft Certified: Azure Solutions Architect Expert preferredMicrosoft Certified: Agentic AI Business Solutions Architect Expert (AB-100 or equivalent) preferredUiPath Automation Solution Architect Professional / Agentic Automation Professional preferredAWS Solutions Architect Professional and/or AWS Certified Generative AI Developer – Professional preferredKnowledge, Skills, and AbilitiesDemonstrated experience in one or more of the following areas: traditional artificial intelligence (AI), machine learning (ML), generative AI and agentic AI, including knowledge of core concepts, hands-on development, implementation and production deployment.Advanced knowledge of intelligent automation and robotic process automation (RPA) platforms.Experience with Microsoft Power Platform, Power Automate, UiPath, Automation Anywhere or similar workflow automation, low-code and agent framework technologies.Knowledge of generative AI, large language models (LLMs), prompt engineering, retrieval-augmented generation (RAG), tool calling, agent workflows and AI-enabled workflow design.Experience with AI platforms such as Azure AI Services, Azure OpenAI, Copilot Studio, AWS AI/ML or Google AI technologies.Proficiency in Python, SQL, APIs, authentication, data integration, enterprise applications and systems integration methodologies.Understanding of cloud computing technologies and enterprise architecture principles.Knowledge of the software development lifecycle, testing methodologies, version control, DevOps, CI/CD and release management.Understanding of logging, observability, incident management and production support practices.Experience evaluating AI solutions for accuracy, reliability, latency and failure modes.Working knowledge of secure AI patterns, including data access, least privilege and tool-use controls.SchoolsFirst FCU is committed to Diverse, Equitable, and Inclusive HiringAt SchoolsFirst FCU we are dedicated to building and growing a diverse, inclusive, and authentic Dream Team, so if you’re excited about a position or wanting to make a career change but your past experience doesn’t align perfectly with every qualification in the job description, we encourage you to apply anyway. Many skills are transferrable and you may be just the right candidate for the position, or for other roles we are working on.SchoolsFirst Federal Credit Union is committed to fostering, cultivating, and preserving a culture of diversity and inclusion. SchoolsFirst FCU is an equal opportunity employer and prohibits discrimination against qualified individuals based on their status as protected veterans or individuals with disabilities and prohibits discrimination against all individuals based on their race, color, religion, sex, national origin, age, sexual orientation, gender identity or expression, political affiliation, or genetic information.This organization participates in E-Verify.