[Hiring] Principal AI Platform Engineer @M&T Bank

Role Description

The Principal AI Platform Engineer serves as a senior technical authority responsible for designing, developing, and driving enterprise adoption of Generative AI capabilities within M&T Bank's secure, governed technology ecosystem. This role combines deep software engineering expertise, advanced AI platform knowledge, and strategic technical leadership to deliver scalable, resilient, and responsible AI solutions.

• Influences enterprise architecture and establishes engineering best practices.
• Mentors technical talent and partners with senior technology and business leaders to shape the future of AI-enabled capabilities across the organization.

Qualifications

• Associate’s degree and a minimum of 9 years’ systems analysis and/or application development work experience, or Bachelor's degree and a minimum of 7 years' systems analysis and/or application development work experience.
• In lieu of a degree, a combined minimum of 11 years’ education and/or relevant work experience, including a minimum of 7 years’ systems analysis and/or application development work experience.
• Expert proficiency in a minimum of 1 relevant programming language and advanced proficiency in a minimum of 1 additional relevant programming language.
• Strong foundation in software engineering principles, data structures, algorithms, and distributed system design.
• Hands-on experience developing production applications using Java, Python, C#, or other modern enterprise programming languages.
• Experience designing and integrating RESTful APIs, microservices, and API-driven architectures.
• Advanced knowledge of Generative AI, Large Language Models (LLMs), prompt engineering, and AI application development.
• Experience building and supporting AI-enabled applications within enterprise SDLC, security, compliance, and governance frameworks.
• Proven ability to influence technical direction, engineering standards, and architectural decisions across multiple teams.

Requirements

• Design, develop, and support enterprise-scale GenAI solutions, including AI-assisted development, documentation, testing, analytics, and workflow automation capabilities.
• Lead the architecture, implementation, and optimization of Retrieval-Augmented Generation (RAG) solutions.
• Design, review, and approve agent-based and tool-integrated AI architectures.
• Develop and oversee APIs, shared services, and reusable frameworks.
• Establish prompt engineering standards, evaluation methodologies, and testing frameworks.
• Drive model testing, benchmarking, evaluation, and performance analysis efforts.
• Author organized, secure, scalable, and maintainable code at the expert level.
• Lead technical discussions with Product Managers, Architects, Engineers, and senior stakeholders.
• Serve as a subject matter expert for Generative AI, AI platform engineering, and responsible AI practices.
• Mentor and coach engineers on software engineering best practices.
• Contribute to technical roadmaps that balance strategic AI initiatives.
• Define and champion architecture standards, design patterns, and implementation guidance.
• Apply and analyze engineering, operational, and AI performance metrics.
• Lead the implementation of resiliency, performance, observability, and security best practices.
• Drive adoption of responsible AI, model governance, security, compliance, privacy, and risk management standards.
• Participate in and present to enterprise architecture forums, engineering councils, and leadership committees.
• Understand and adhere to the Company's risk and regulatory standards.
• Promote an environment that supports a culture of belonging.
• Maintain M&T internal control standards.
• Complete other related duties as assigned.

Benefits

• Competitive and market-informed pay for employees.
• Pay range for this position is $139,700.00 - $232,900.00 Annual (USD).
• Specific compensation based on the candidate’s knowledge, skills, and experience.