AI Research Scientist
U.S. Bank · Atlanta, GA
$133,365–$156,900from the description
Jul 24, 2026
Atlanta, GA
Jul 26, 2026
What this job asks for AI summary
A research and engineering role within a bank's AI Center of Excellence, covering the full lifecycle from monitoring emerging AI developments and running experiments to building prototypes and deploying production systems. Day-to-day work centers on generative AI, large language models, agentic systems, and retrieval-augmented generation, with collaboration across engineering, product, and business teams. Best suited to a technically deep practitioner comfortable moving between applied research and real-world deployment in a regulated environment.
Senior level · 8+ years · Minneapolis-St. Paul-Bloomington, MN-WI · Bachelor's required · Full-time
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How this req sits in the market our data
Roughly 280 people in the Minneapolis-St. Paul-Bloomington, MN-WI area plausibly meet what this posting asks for (data scientists). range 210–360
Applicant volume Heavy — This req sits in a large pool with little in its requirements to thin it, and auto-apply tools fire at everything in the occupation. Applying early and leading with the rare skills below is what gets read.
Most people in this occupation already list these. Still required — just not what gets you shortlisted.
What the occupation pays Median $132,634 (middle half $96,834–$166,533). This posting is about at that midpoint.
Estimated from BLS employment for this occupation and area, per-skill prevalence across our listing corpus, and published wage benchmarks — as of Jul 28, 2026. It is a model, not a headcount.
Why we read it this way (6)
The title 'AI Scientist' carries no explicit seniority level, so advertised seniority is Unspecified; the 8+ years minimum and full-lifecycle ownership scope support a Senior classification.
The alt SOC (15-1252 Software Developers) reflects the strong engineering emphasis — prototyping, deployment, and production-grade solution delivery — but the primary framing is research, experimentation, and modeling, which aligns more closely with Data Scientists (15-2051).
All named technologies (PyTorch, Hugging Face, LangChain, LangGraph, deep learning, LLMs, RAG, agentic AI, etc.) appear exclusively under 'Preferred Qualifications', so all are marked preferred. The only hard-gated requirement is a Bachelor's degree in a quantitative field and 8+ years of relevant experience.
A Ph.D. is 'strongly preferred' but explicitly listed under Preferred Qualifications, not Basic Qualifications; the degree requirement is set to Bachelors (the stated minimum hard gate).
The pay range ($133,365–$156,900/year) is noted as reflecting the primary location; actual pay may vary by work location.
The role is hybrid with 3+ in-office days per week; it is not fully remote.
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