Senior AI Engineer (Hybrid)
Securian Financial Group · Securian
$89,000–$164,300from the description
Jul 20, 2026
Securian
Jul 22, 2026
What this job asks for AI summary
This role sits within an enterprise AI Center of Excellence, focused on evaluating, selecting, and governing the platforms and tools that support AI development across a large financial services organization. Day-to-day work involves running proof-of-concept experiments with emerging AI technologies, defining reference architectures and standards, and advising delivery teams on scalable, secure AI patterns. It suits a technically deep engineer comfortable bridging platform engineering, MLOps, and cross-functional stakeholder consultation.
Senior level · Minneapolis-St. Paul-Bloomington, MN-WI · Full-time
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Why we read it this way (6)
The internal title is 'Engineering Consultant'; the external-facing title is 'Senior AI Engineer'. The role sits within an AI Center of Excellence and is primarily platform/tooling-focused rather than hands-on modeling, making it a genuine hybrid between Data Scientist (15-2051) and a broader AI/ML platform engineering occupation (15-1299). 15-2051 was chosen because the role's core subject matter — evaluating foundation models, MLOps pipelines, RAG patterns, and AI stacks — aligns most closely with that occupation; 15-1299 is noted as a close runner-up.
AWS is listed as 'strongly preferred' rather than strictly required, but it appears in the hard-requirements block and is the only named cloud platform, so it is treated as a required skill. Azure and GCP are listed as alternatives reflecting the 'or similar cloud environment' framing.
The role is hybrid (minimum 3 days/week in-office in the St. Paul, MN area); it is not fully remote.
Several qualifications — financial services background, enterprise architecture experience, and AI governance/responsible AI familiarity — appear in the requirements block but name no specific technology or tool, so they are omitted from the skills list per extraction rules.
The 'Preferred Skills' section heading appears in the posting but no skills are actually listed beneath it; nothing was extracted from that section.
Ignored 1 non-technology phrase(s) as skills (responsibilities/concepts, not named tools): prompt management.
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