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Senior AI Engineer

Mastercard

O Fallon, MO · full time · Senior

$115,000 – $184,000

Listed on Mastercard’s own careers site. You apply with them directly — we never stand between you and the employer.

What this role is

This role leads the design and deployment of large language model systems, agents, and retrieval-augmented generation pipelines at enterprise scale. It suits experienced ML engineers who have built production generative AI applications and want to architect next-generation AI systems within a global fintech organization.

Our summary, not Mastercard’s wording. The full posting is on their site.

What they ask for

Required

  • Master's or Bachelor's degree in Computer Science, AI/ML, or Engineering
  • Significant hands-on experience leading complex Gen AI or ML engineering programs in production
  • Expert-level experience designing and deploying LLM applications, agentic systems, and RAG pipelines from prototype to production
  • Deep proficiency with LLM ecosystems including OpenAI, Anthropic, Gemini, Hugging Face, and open-source foundation models
  • Strong command of Gen AI engineering patterns including prompt engineering, chain-of-thought reasoning, tool calling, and vector embeddings
  • Applied knowledge of ML fundamentals including predictive modeling and deep learning
  • Excellent Python engineering skills including async programming, API development, and microservices
  • SQL proficiency
  • Hands-on experience with cloud AI infrastructure on AWS, Azure, or GCP
  • Strong analytical, communication, and stakeholder management skills

Nice to have

  • Familiarity with MLOps/LLMOps tooling beyond MLflow
  • Experience with responsible AI and bias detection frameworks
  • Knowledge of state and context management systems for agent reasoning

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