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