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# Principal AI Solutions Architect (contract)

- **Company:** Wells Fargo
- **Location:** Santa Clara, CA, United States (Remote available)
- **Salary:** $249,600.0 - $266,240.0
- **Contract:** Temporary contract
- **Skills:** Artificial Intelligence, Audit Trail, Profiling, Distributed Systems, Fault Tolerance, Graph Database, Python (Programming Language), Multiprocessing, Performance Tuning, Query Optimization, Recommender Systems, Search Technologies, Service Development Studio, Software Engineering, SQL Databases, Workflow Management Systems, Feature Engineering, Retrieval-Augmented Generation, Large Language Models, Multi-Agent Systems, Prompt Engineering, Model Validation, Caching, Generative AI, Backend, Fastapi, Event Driven Architecture, AI Platforms, Low Latency, Virtual Agents, Restful APIs, Microservices
- **Published:** August 5, 2026
- **Apply:** https://www.indeed.com/viewjob?jk=4c5295051c43c6d2

## About the Role

In this contingent resource assignment, you may: Consult on complex initiatives with broad impact and large-scale planning for Specialty Software Engineering. Review and analyze complex multi-faceted, larger scale, or longer-term Specialty Software Engineering challenges that require in-depth evaluation of multiple factors, including intangibles or unprecedented factors. Contribute to the resolution of complex and multi-faceted situations requiring solid understanding of the function, policies, procedures, and compliance requirements that meet deliverables. Strategically collaborate and consult with client personnel. Required Qualifications: Specialty Software Engineering experience, or equivalent demonstrated through one or a combination of the following: work or consulting experience, training, military experience, education., * Applicants must be authorized to work for ANY employer in the U.S. This position is not eligible for visa sponsorship.

## Description

* Python software engineering
 * REST API development
 * Microservices architecture
 * Distributed systems design
 * Backend service development
 * FastAPI
 * AsyncIO
 * Multiprocessing
 * Performance tuning and profiling
 * Caching strategies
 * Database/query optimization
 * Event-driven architecture
 * High-availability and fault-tolerant system design

Generative AI / LLM Skills

 * Generative AI application development
 * Large Language Models
 * Agentic AI systems
 * Multi-agent workflow design
 * Retrieval-Augmented Generation
 * Hybrid RAG architectures
 * Knowledge graph-enhanced RAG
 * Prompt engineering
 * Prompt orchestration
 * Tool calling
 * LLM routing and fallback strategies
 * Fine-tuning evaluation
 * Model evaluation frameworks
 * Hallucination detection
 * Human-in-the-loop validation
 * Text-to-SQL using LLMs
 * Schema-aware prompting
 * Embeddings and semantic search

AI Platform & Architecture Skills

 * Enterprise AI platform architecture
 * Scalable AI workflow design
 * AI governance standards
 * AI guardrails implementation
 * Responsible AI controls
 * PII redaction
 * Audit logging
 * Model usage monitoring
 * Latency, cost, and accuracy optimization
 * AI/ML feature engineering
 * Recommendation systems
 * Feedback loops for model improvement


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