Join us as a Principal AI Engineer

This is a challenging role where you’ll design and engineer innovative AI-powered solutions with the customer or user experience at their core
Using your engineering expertise, you’ll work closely with architects to shape major components of the bank’s target architecture and technology roadmap
You’ll gain valuable exposure to senior stakeholders while continuing to develop your technical expertise and leadership capability
We're offering this role at director level

What you’ll do

As a Principal AI Engineer, you’ll create customer value through innovative engineering solutions that are customer-focused, secure, scalable, high-performing and resilient.

You’ll lead complex and strategically important initiatives, coordinating multiple teams to deliver meaningful business outcomes. We’ll look to you to align technical delivery with strategic objectives and help deliver against key performance measures published to our investors.

You’ll also be:

Defining and implementing AI engineering strategy, architecture,



design patterns and guardrails, making sure solutions are secure, resilient, observable and production-ready
Leading the development and scaling of AI-powered tooling and agent capabilities across the software delivery lifecycle
Enabling engineering teams to accelerate delivery, improve quality and augment human expertise through effective collaboration with AI agents
Providing technical leadership through design, development and operation of the Lending AI Agent Platform and its core services
Developing reusable AI engineering capabilities, including evaluation and benchmarking frameworks, testing approaches and model lifecycle tooling
Driving the adoption of context engineering patterns, governance controls and deployment automation to support trusted AI solutions at scale

The skills you'll need

You’ll bring significant experience in software engineering, software or database design and architecture, alongside a robust t

📌 Principal AI Engineer, Director (Bengaluru)
🏢 NatWest Group
📍 Bengaluru