Software Engineer III - AI/ML

Job Description:

At Bank of America, we are guided by a common purpose to help make financial lives better through the power of every connection. We do this by driving Responsible Growth and delivering for our clients, teammates, communities and shareholders every day.

Being a Great Place to Work and providing a culture of caring is core to how we drive Responsible Growth. We are intentional about fostering an inclusive workplace where every teammate has the opportunity to succeed, build a career and contribute to our shared success. This includes attracting and developing exceptional talent, recognizing and rewarding performance, and supporting our teammates’ physical, emotional, and financial wellness through affordable, competitive and flexible benefits.

We value the unique perspectives individuals bring from all backgrounds and career paths - whether shaped by military service, community college education, or a wide range of work and life experiences. These journeys foster resilience, leadership and innovation, strengthening our workforce and positively impact the communities we serve.

Bank of America is committed to an in-office culture that supports collaboration, engagement, and career development. Our approach includes clear in-office expectations, while providing an appropriate level of flexibility based on role-specific responsibilities and business needs.

At Bank of America, you can build a successful career with opportunities to learn, grow, and make an impact. Join us!

Job Description:
This job is responsible for developing and delivering complex requirements to accomplish business goals. Key responsibilities of the job include ensuring that software is developed to meet functional, non-functional and compliance requirements, and solutions are well designed with maintainability/ease of integration and testing built-in from the outset. Job expectations include a strong knowledge of development and testing practices common to the industry and design and architectural patterns.

Position Summary:

The AI Software Engineer supports the development of full-stack Machine Learning (ML) and Generative AI (Gen AI) applications tailored to optimize legal and business workflows. Utilizing AI techniques, the Engineer directly supports end-to-end development of innovative solutions, contributing to rapid prototyping initiatives when needed. In collaboration with Machine Learning (ML) Engineers, the AI Software Engineer helps develop prototypes to evaluate technology readiness and suitability for specific applications, ultimately scaling the most promising prototypes to production-ready applications.

Responsibilities:

• Codes solutions and unit test to deliver a requirement/story per the defined acceptance criteria and compliance requirements
• Designs, develops, and modifies architecture components, application interfaces, and solution enablers while ensuring principal architecture integrity is maintained
• Mentors other software engineers and coach team on Continuous Integration and Continuous Development (CI-CD) practices and automating tool stack
• Executes story refinement, definition of requirements, and estimating work necessary to realize a story through the delivery lifecycle
• Performs spike/proof of concept as necessary to mitigate risk or implement new ideas
• Automates manual release activities
• Designs, develops, and maintains automated test suites (integration, regression, performance)

Required Qualifications:

• A minimum of seven (7) years’ Python experience required
• A minimum of five (5) years’ experience with full stack development preferred
• A minimum of three (3) years’ industry experience in full stack AI application development
• Proficiency with Python including experience with libraries and frameworks relevant to ML/GenAI application development (e.g., LangChain)
• Proficiency with API development frameworks (e.g., Django, Flask, FastAPI) and knowledge of web standards relating to API development (e.g., CORS, OpenAPI)
• Experience with modern web development frameworks and languages, including React,
• Typescript, and Node.js with experience building and maintaining front-end and backend applications
• Experience with alternative web frameworks such as Vue.js and a strong understanding of
• component-based architecture, state management and responsive design principles
• Familiarity working with production-grade vector databases (e.g., Redis ,pgvector, Chroma, or Milvus) for efficient storage and retrieval of embeddings
• Familiarity with relational (e.g., Oracle, PostgreSQL) and/or NoSQL databases (e.g., Mongo)
• Solid understanding of modern software development practices including CI/CD/CT, Test-Driven Development, and version control (Git)
• Familiarity with Agile development
• Familiarity with container technologies (Docker, Kubernetes)
• Ability to work with unit tests, integration tests and common Python testing frameworks
• Familiarity with test-driven development
• Strong analytical skills, and a creative mindset to effectively define problems and explore
• solutions
• Well-developed and professional interpersonal skills; ability to interact effectively with people at all organizational levels of the firm
• Ability to work in a team environment with a customer-service focus
• Strong communication skills, both written and verbal
• Organizational skills needed to manage time well, prioritize effectively, and handle multiple deadlines
• Ability to handle confidential and sensitive information with the appropriate discretion
• Ability to continually learn and grow in the AL/ML field

Desired Qualifications:

• Bachelor’s degree in Computer Science, Information Systems, Engineering, Data Science or related fields required

Skills:

• Application Development
• Automation
• Influence
• Solution Design
• Technical Strategy Development
• Architecture
• Business Acumen
• DevOps Practices
• Result Orientation
• Solution Delivery Process
• Analytical Thinking
• Collaboration
• Data Management
• Risk Management
• Test Engineering

Shift:

1st shift (United States of America)

Hours Per Week: 

40

Pay Transparency details

US - NY - New York - 1100 Ave Of The Americas - Two Bryant Park (NY1540)

Pay and benefits information

Pay range

$102,900.00 - $179,900.00 annualized salary, offers to be determined based on experience, education and skill set.

Discretionary incentive eligible

This role is eligible to participate in the annual discretionary plan. Employees are eligible for an annual discretionary award based on their overall individual performance results and behaviors, the performance and contributions of their line of business and/or group; and the overall success of the Company.

Benefits

This role is currently benefits eligible. We provide industry-leading benefits, access to paid time off, resources and support to our employees so they can make a genuine impact and contribute to the sustainable growth of our business and the communities we serve.