Principal AI Engineer

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Senior AI Engineer

senior · Technology / Software Development

Job Summary

We hiring a senior AI Engineer who will play a critical role in the design, development, and deployment of Intelligent Document Processing platform and respective AI services. You will work collaboratively with a cross-functional team, focusing on using traditional OCR and non-traditional OCR(VLM) and other technologies to process massive documents by integrating various data sources in the bank. Your expertise will be pivotal in ensuring the scalability, reliability, and efficiency of our AI solutions.

Key Responsibilities

Platform Development
• Lead the design and development of AI solutions, ensuring they meet the specific requirements of the banking business.
• Collaborate with cross - functional teams, including data scientists, software engineers, and business analysts, to understand business needs and translate them into technical solutions.

Technology Application
• Utilize technologies of traditional OCR and non-traditional OCR (VLM), RAG, agentic AI etc. to build solution to support business in the bank
• Integrate multiple data sources in the bank, such as transaction records, customer information, and regulatory documents, to support the document processing and AI services.

Solution Optimization
• Continuously optimize the AI solutions to enhance scalability, ensuring that the system can handle increasing volumes of documents and data as the business grows.
• Ensure the reliability of the AI solutions by implementing robust error - handling mechanisms and conducting regular system testing.
• Improve the efficiency of the document processing and AI services by fine-tuning algorithms, reducing processing time, and minimizing resource consumption.

Team Collaboration
• Provide technical guidance and support to junior team members, fostering a collaborative and innovative work environment.
• Participate in team meetings and discussions, sharing knowledge and best practices in the field of AI and document processing.

Regulatory & Business Conduct
• Display exemplary conduct and live by the Group’s Values and Code of Conduct. 
• Take personal responsibility for embedding the highest standards of ethics, including regulatory and business conduct, across Standard Chartered Bank. This includes understanding and ensuring compliance with, in letter and spirit, all applicable laws, regulations, guidelines and the Group Code of Conduct.
• Effectively and collaboratively identify, escalate, mitigate and resolve risk, conduct and compliance matters.

Key stakeholders
• T&A Delivery Team
• Software Engineering Platform Teams
• Business
• Operational, Technology & Cyber Risk 
• Chief Data Office
• Group and Country Compliance & Regulators 
• Group Internal Audit
• Group Operational Risk

Skills and Experience

• Hands on with AI platform Development
• Hands on with ML framework, best practices and ops implementation
• Hands-on experience with distributed system builds in containers(K8s)
• Experience with design and implementation of robust data integration pipelines
• Programming languages such as Python, Java, or C++.

Qualifications

• Experience: > 5+ years of experience in AI/LLMs, machine learning engineering and software engineering, with a proven track record of delivering complex AI projects.
• Knowledgeable and experiences in building AI platform in a way of IaaS and PaaS.
• Knowledge of OCR and document automation tools including: olmOCR, MinerU, opensource VLMs like Qwen VL, Llama Vision, Tesseract, etc.
• Background in AI eco-system technologies and solutions, including: Natural Language Processing (NLP), Machine Learning (ML), LLM training and tuning, MongoDB, PostgreSQL, Elastic Search, etc.
• Proved experiences in driving big project by leading team(s) in a complex environment and dealing with different stakeholders.
• Familiar with RAG, Agentic AI technologies with actual use cases on applying relevant techniques.  
• Knowledge in Data/Model Management (Unity Catalog, MLFlow) and cloud platforms and infrastructure as code (e.g., AWS, Azure) is a big plus.
• Hands-on experience with GPU computing and optimization for AI workloads is an advantage.
• Programming Skills: Proficiency in Python, knowledge in Java/C++ is a plus.
• Software Engineering: Strong skills in software engineering, familiar with CICD pipeline and DevOps process.
• Understanding of distributed system, knows well in containerized environment (Kubernetes, OpenShift, AKS, etc)
• Problem-Solving: Excellent analytical and problem-solving skills, with the ability to think critically and creatively.
• Communication: Strong interpersonal and communication skills, with the ability to work effectively in a collaborative team environment.

About Standard Chartered

We're an international bank, nimble enough to act, big enough for impact. For more than 170 years, we've worked to make a positive difference for our clients, communities, and each other. We question the status quo, love a challenge and enjoy finding new opportunities to grow and do better than before. If you're looking for a career with purpose and you want to work for a bank making a difference, we want to hear from you. You can count on us to celebrate your unique talents and we can't wait to see the talents you can bring us.

Our purpose, to drive commerce and prosperity through our unique diversity, together with our brand promise, to be here for good are achieved by how we each live our valued behaviours. When you work with us, you'll see how we value difference and advocate inclusion.

Together we:

• Do the right thing and are assertive, challenge one another, and live with integrity, while putting the client at the heart of what we do
• Never settle, continuously striving to improve and innovate, keeping things simple and learning from doing well, and not so well
• Are better together, we can be ourselves, be inclusive, see more good in others, and work collectively to build for the long term

What we offer

In line with our Fair Pay Charter, we offer a competitive salary and benefits to support your mental, physical, financial and social wellbeing.

• Core bank funding for retirement savings, medical and life insurance, with flexible and voluntary benefits available in some locations.
• Time-off including annual leave, parental/maternity (20 weeks), sabbatical (12 months maximum) and volunteering leave (3 days), along with minimum global standards for annual and public holiday, which is combined to 30 days minimum.
• Flexible working options based around home and office locations, with flexible working patterns.
• Proactive wellbeing support through Unmind, a market-leading digital wellbeing platform, development courses for resilience and other human skills, global Employee Assistance Programme, sick leave, mental health first-aiders and all sorts of self-help toolkits
• A continuous learning culture to support your growth, with opportunities to reskill and upskill and access to physical, virtual and digital learning.
• Being part of an inclusive and values driven organisation, one that embraces and celebrates our unique diversity, across our teams, business functions and geographies - everyone feels respected and can realise their full potential.

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