AI Engineer, Senior

We are a hybrid, remote-office company with onsite locations in Sioux Falls, SD; Scottsdale, AZ; Louisville, KY; Troy, MI; Franklin, TN; and Easton, PA. Pathward is a financial empowerment company dedicated to creating financial inclusion for all™ by removing barriers and promoting economic mobility through responsible, secure, high-quality financial products.

About the Role

Responsible for researching, developing, and implementing Artificial Intelligence (AI) solutions to enable machines to simulate human intelligence by perceiving, reasoning, learning, and making decisions. Identifies opportunities for leveraging AI technology, optimizes existing AI models, or develops custom solutions for specific applications. Prepares data for AI model training, trains, validates, and optimizes models, and integrates AI technologies into existing workflows.

Responsibilities

• Research, design, and develop artificial intelligence and machine learning models to solve business challenges and enable machines to simulate human intelligence through perception, reasoning, learning, and decision-making capabilities.
• Identify and evaluate opportunities for leveraging AI technologies across the organization, assess existing workflows, and recommend AI-driven solutions that improve efficiency, accuracy, and business outcomes.
• Collect, prepare, and preprocess data from various sources for model training, including data cleaning, feature engineering, exploratory analysis, and establishing data pipelines to support continuous improvement.
• Train, validate, and optimize AI models using appropriate algorithms, frameworks, and evaluation metrics to ensure robustness, performance, and accuracy while mitigating biases and ensuring ethical AI practices.
• Integrate AI solutions into existing systems, applications, and workflows by developing APIs, microservices, or interfaces that enable seamless deployment and scalability in production environments.
• Monitor and maintain deployed AI models through performance tracking, troubleshooting, and iterative improvements to ensure continued effectiveness and alignment with business objectives.
• Collaborate with cross-functional teams including data scientists, software engineers, and business stakeholders to translate requirements into technical solutions and communicate complex AI concepts to non-technical audiences.
• Other duties as assigned.

Requirements

• Bachelor's degree or equivalent education and work experience.
• Typically, 5+ years of relevant experience with a bachelor's degree or equivalent.

Pay

Salary range: $86,000 – $145,000. The range reflects the minimum and maximum target for a new hire in this role. Individual pay within the range will be determined by factors including a candidate’s experience, qualifications, skills, and location. This role is also eligible for an annual performance-based incentive opportunity.

Benefits

Pathward offers a comprehensive benefits package for eligible employees, including:

• Health insurance
• 401(k) retirement benefits
• Life insurance
• Disability benefits
• Paid time off
• And more