About this role:Wells Fargo is seeking talent to join the2027 Quantitative Analytics ProgramACI(Masters).Learn more about the career areas and lines of business at wellsfargojobs.com 

Program Overview |The Wells Fargo Quantitative Analytics Program offersMasterscandidates an opportunity to apply advanced analytics, artificial intelligence, and machine learning to complex business challenges at one of the world's leading financial institutions.

This 12-month development program combines hands-on project experience, mentorship, technical training, and exposure to senior leaders. Through two six-month rotations,you'llwork alongside experienced quantitative professionals, helping develop and evaluate innovative solutions that support business strategy, risk management, and customer experience across Wells Fargo.

You'llbe expected to bring fresh perspectives, explore innovative approaches, and contribute to solutions that support Wells Fargo's strategic priorities. Along the way,you'lldevelop not only your technical capabilities but also the business acumen and leadership skills needed to succeed in a highly collaborative environment.

Upon completion of the program,you'lltransition into a full-time role aligned with your skills, interests, programexperience,and business needs #earlycareers

As part of the Applied Computational Intelligence track,you'llwork on innovative projectsthatleverageemerging AI technologies and advanced modeling techniques. Example projects may include:

• Develop AI-powered advisors and decision support systems that synthesize customer, relationship, market, and enterprise data to generate insights, recommendations, and actions.

• Build Generative AI assistants and intelligent agents thatleverageenterprise knowledge, reasoning, and workflow orchestration to support employees and customers.

• Design and deploy agentic AI and multi-agent systems that automate customer service, operational, and business processes through planning, task execution, and human-in-the-loop collaboration.

• Create enterprise knowledge intelligence platforms using Retrieval-Augmented Generation (RAG), Large Language Models (LLMs), multimodal AI, and structured and unstructured data to power search, reasoning, decision support, and workflow automation.

• Advance the state of enterprise AI through model training, evaluation, optimization, and deployment of LLMs, speech technologies, and emerging foundation models.

• Deploy scalable Generative AI and machine learning solutions that improve productivity, customer experience, risk management, decision-making, and operational efficiency across the enterprise.

• Apply statistical and quantitative techniques tovalidatemodel design, calibration, and implementation

WhatYou’llExperience:

• Develop and deploy AI and machine learning solutions across generative AI, agentic systems, and traditional machine learning applications

• Design and build LLM-powered agents and multi-agent systems capable of planning, reasoning, task orchestration, and human-in-the-loop collaboration

• Monitor production models and AI systems, evaluating performance, stability, and model drift through testing and analytics frameworks

• Apply advanced quantitative techniques to solve real-world business problems

• Collaborate with cross-functional teams, technical experts, and business leaders across the organization

• Gain exposure to enterprise-scale AI development, governance, and risk management practices

• Design, train, fine-tune, and evaluate transformer-based, foundation, and small language models (SLMs).

• Apply AI, machine learning, and generative AI techniques to solve complex business problems.

• Build andoptimizescalable model training and deployment pipelines.

• Leverage distributed computing and advanced training techniques to improve model performance and efficiency.

• Enhance model performance through distillation, quantization, and pruning.

• Optimizeinference speed, latency, throughout, and cost forproduction ofAI systems.

Program dates: July 2027 - July 2028  

Program Duration 12 months  

Program Location: Charlotte, NC   

Desired Qualifications:

• Currently pursuing aMastersdegree in Computer Science, Machine Learning, Artificial Intelligence, Engineering or related quantitative field or related quantitative field, with an expected graduation date between December 2026 – June 2027.

Technical Skills

• Strong programming experience with tools such as Python, R, SQL, Java, Spark, or similar technologies

• Hands-on experience developing machine learning and AI solutions in research, academic, or industry environments

Knowledge and Experience In:

Large Language Models & Model Training

• Experience with supervised fine-tuning (SFT) and post-training methodologies including RLHF, RLAIF, PPO, DPO, and GRPO

• Training and deploying models in cloud environments, including GCP

Agentic AI

• Multi-agent architectures and orchestration frameworks likeLangChain,LangGraph, Google's ADK,CrewAI

• Retrieval-Augmented Generation (RAG) applications and intelligent agent deployment

AI Infrastructure & Optimization

• Distributed GPU training

• Efficient model tuning approaches such asLoRAand PEFT

Additional Qualifications

• Strong quantitative and analytical skills, with the ability to apply data analysis, modeling, visualization, statistics, research, and generative AI to generate insights, adapt quickly, and support innovative solutions.

• Ability to execute with urgency, apply data and software engineering skills to design, develop, and deliver scalable solutions, and drive operational excellence with strong data management and an enterprise mindset.

• Strong communicationskills, with the ability to foster an inclusive environment and activelyseek, apply, and respond to feedback in collaborative analytical settings

• Strong business acumen with a commitment to providing excellent service and supporting data-informed business outcomes.

• Ability to act with integrity, support risk assessments, and apply risk controls to help manage risk in a disciplined, data-driven environment.

Why Wells Fargo

At Wells Fargo,you'llhave the opportunity to work on meaningful business challenges while helping shape the future of AI and analytics in financial services.You'llgain exposure to enterprise-scale technologies, learn from industry leaders, and build valuable relationships across the organization as you begin your career.

Join us and bring your research, curiosity, and technicalexpertiseto work on solutions that make a real impact.

Wells Fargo only considers candidates who are presently authorized to work for any employer in the United States and who do not require work visa sponsorship from Wells Fargo now or in the future in order to retain their authorization to work in the United States.  

 Based on the volume of applications received, this job posting may be removed prior to the indicated close date. If you do not apply prior to the closing of this posting, we encourage you to apply for other opportunities with Wells Fargo. After submitting your application, please monitor your e-mail for future communications.