# Principal Applied AI App Engineer

**Company**: Mastercard
**Location**: Pune, India
**Experience**: senior
**Job type**: full-time
**Category**: Engineering
**Industry**: Finance

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## Description

Mastercard is seeking a Principal Applied AI App Engineer to steer and implement the Global Business Solution Center's (GBSC) AI strategy.

The ideal candidate is highly motivated, intellectually curious, analytical with a passion for reliability, scalability and automation.

Responsibilities:

- Serve as the GBSC's design lead for AI-based solutions within Mastercard's evolving AI ecosystem

- Design and develop production-grade applications that embed machine learning and generative AI capabilities

- Integrate trained models (ML, deep learning, or LLM-based) into APIs, services, workflows, and UIs

- Collaborate with Data Science and ML Engineering teams to operationalize prebuilt models

- Support model versioning, deployment, monitoring, and updates in production environments

- Implement guardrails for model behavior, data quality, and responsible AI usage

- Ensure AI applications meet enterprise standards for security, privacy, compliance, and ethical AI usage

- Apply bias mitigation, explainability, and monitoring techniques where applicable

- Follow secure coding and access control best practices

- Stay abreast of emerging AI/ML engineering trends and incorporates innovative techniques into Mastercard's AI ecosystem

- Mentor team members by sharing best practices, innovative techniques, and emerging trends to develop expertise and capabilities around their discipline

Requirements:

- Advanced expertise integrating generative AI, LLMs, prompt engineering, and RAG architectures into business applications

- Extensive experience deploying production-grade AI applications that leverage evaluation, observability and monitoring

- Strong experience in software engineering (Python, Java, C#, or similar)

- Familiarity with cloud platforms (AWS, Azure, or GCP) and containerized deployments

- Solid understanding of data structures, algorithms, and system design

- Detail-oriented with a passion for automation and adopting emerging technologies

- Experience advising/strategizing AI roadmaps and technology adoption

Desirable Capabilities:

- Finance process fluency + leadership skills

- Strong communication skills/experience communicating with senior leaders and executives

- Excels working on a global team, communicating plans and leading execution across time zones

## Skills

### Required
- Python
- Java
- C#
- AWS
- Azure
- GCP
- machine learning
- generative AI
- LLMs
- prompt engineering
- RAG architectures

### Nice to have
- finance process fluency
- leadership skills
- communication skills

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