AI Lead Engineer
Standard Chartered BankTianjin, China
Posted April 7, 2026
Full Time
About the Company
Standard Chartered is an international bank that operates with a purpose to drive commerce and prosperity through unique diversity.
Job Description
The AI Lead Engineer will be responsible for integrating, fine-tuning, and operationalizing large language models and other AI components into production-grade software systems. This role focuses on post-training workflows—such as fine-tuning, prompt engineering, retrieval-augmented generation (RAG), vector database integration, and model deployment—rather than foundational model development.
Requirements
- Bachelor’s or master’s in computer science, Engineering, or a related field.
- 2+ years of experience building AI-augmented applications or services.
- Proficient in Python and familiar with frameworks like LangChain, Transformers, or Hugging Face datasets.
- Understanding of vector embeddings and experience with vector search tools.
- Strong grasp of model deployment workflows (e.g., Docker, REST APIs, cloud services like AWS/Microsoft Azure).
- Familiarity with prompt engineering strategies and LLM behavior tuning.
- Experience integrating with APIs from OpenAI, Anthropic, or open-source models like Mistral or LLaMA.
- Micro-services development using Python
- Java, Spring, Spring Cloud
- Virtualization, Containerisation, and Orchestration (AWS, Docker, Docker Swarm, Kubernetes)
- Continuous Integration/Deployment (CI/CD) and Automation (Jenkins, Ansible)
- Project Management
- Prompt Engineering strategies and LLM handling
- RAG, Embeddings, Vector DB, MCP experience
- Confluence/Azure DevOps or Git, CI / CD (Maven, Git, Jenkins), Eclipse or Intelij IDEA
- Software Development
Benefits
- Core bank funding for retirement savings
- Medical and life insurance
- Flexible and voluntary benefits available in some locations
- Time-off including annual leave, parental/maternity (20 weeks), sabbatical (12 months maximum) and volunteering leave (3 days)
- Minimum global standards for annual and public holiday, which is combined to 30 days minimum
- Flexible working options based around home and office locations, with flexible working patterns
- Proactive wellbeing support through Unmind, a market-leading digital wellbeing platform
- Development courses for resilience and other human skills
- Global Employee Assistance Programme
- Sick leave
- Mental health first-aiders
- Self-help toolkits