- Company: Wells Fargo
- Location: Wellston, Saint Louis County
- Full Time
- Wellston, Saint Louis County
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Wells Fargo at a glance
wellsfargo.com- Founded 1852
- Employees 150500
- Ticker WFC
- Revenue (FY2019) $85.06B
- Net income $21.34B
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Wells Fargo & Company is a U.S. multinational financial services firm and one of the “Big Four” banks, operating in 35 countries and serving more than 70 million customers. Founded in 1852, it employs roughly 150,500 people and trades as WFC.
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Wells Fargo is hiring a Senior Lead AI Research Scientist – Foundation Models & Agentic AI to join its Model Risk Management organization in Wellston, Saint Louis County. If you want to shape how a major financial institution builds and validates cutting-edge artificial intelligence, this full-time, on-site role puts you at the center of that work.
About the Role
Within the Model Risk Management (MRM) team, you will serve as a Senior Lead Quantitative Analytics Specialist focused on advanced AI research. The position centers on guiding the design, development, and rigorous evaluation of next-generation Foundation Models, Agentic AI, and Generative AI systems — making certain these technologies are dependable, scalable, and ready for real-world deployment at enterprise scale.
Key Responsibilities
- Lead research and development efforts across Foundation Models, Agentic AI, and Generative AI initiatives.
- Build and apply evaluation frameworks that confirm AI systems are robust, reliable, and capable of scaling.
- Advance the firm's most sophisticated AI programs as a senior technical authority within Model Risk Management.
- Partner with quantitative analytics and risk teams to align innovative modeling approaches with sound governance.
Qualifications
- Deep expertise in foundation models, generative AI, and agent-based AI systems.
- Strong quantitative analytics background suited to a senior, lead-level research scientist role.
- Proven ability to assess AI model performance, robustness, and scalability.
- Experience translating advanced AI research into trustworthy, production-ready solutions.
About Wells Fargo
Wells Fargo is a leading diversified financial services company, and its Model Risk Management team plays a critical part in ensuring that emerging AI capabilities meet the highest standards of reliability and accountability. Joining this group in Wellston, Saint Louis County means contributing directly to the responsible adoption of Foundation Models and Agentic AI across the enterprise.
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The role is listed in Wellston, Saint Louis County, Missouri (on-site). Missouri is a Midwestern state of about six million people, with the St. Louis metro as a major employment hub in the eastern part of the state.
Missouri is a landlocked state in the Midwestern region of the United States. Ranking 21st in land area, it borders Iowa to the north, Illinois, Kentucky and Tennessee to the east, Arkansas to the south and Oklahoma, Kansas, and Nebraska to the west. With over six million residents, it is the 19th-most populous state of the country. The largest urban areas are St. Louis, Kansas City, Springfield,
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National unemployment rate in US: 4.2% — via World Bank
Private-sector wage growth (year over year): 3.3% — via FRED
National quits rate: 1.9% — via FRED (BLS JOLTS)
Weekly initial unemployment claims: 208,000 — via FRED
GDP per capita in US: $90,027 — via World Bank
Consumer price inflation in US: 2.9% (annual) — via World Bank
Real GDP growth in US: 2.2% (annual) — via World Bank
Average hours worked per year in US: 1,800 — via OECD
Cost of living in Missouri: 9.2% below the national average — via BEA
Home prices in Missouri (year over year): +4.4% — via FRED
Nearby history: Wellston Station, listed 2007 (367m away) — via National Register of Historic Places
Typical climate: average high 66°F / low 48°F year-round (summers around 87°F, winters around 26°F) — via NOAA 1991-2020 Normals
Walkability: Most walkable (17.5/20) — via EPA National Walkability Index
Typical rent nearby: $995/mo (1BR) · $1,218/mo (2BR) — via HUD Fair Market Rents
- Elevation 171m (561 ft)
Source: Wikipedia (state)
About this role & career path
This senior-lead research track can open paths into principal AI research, applied science leadership, or platform/ML strategy roles inside large financial institutions—especially where foundation-model and agent systems meet compliance and production constraints.
Build the skills for this role
Prioritize foundation-model training/fine-tuning, agent architectures (planning, tools, memory), rigorous evaluation, and production ML hygiene. In banking, add model risk awareness, data governance, and clear communication of research trade-offs to non-research partners.
- Walk through a foundation-model or agent project end-to-end: problem, data, method, metrics, failure modes.
- Be ready on evaluation, safety/guardrails, and why a method is suitable in a regulated bank.
- Prepare leadership examples: mentoring, research prioritization, and partnering with risk/engineering.
Strong fit if you lead research on foundation models or agentic systems and can ship careful, measurable work in a large financial institution. Less ideal if you want pure academic freedom without compliance and stakeholder overhead, or fully remote work (listing is not remote).
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- Role Senior Lead AI Research Scientist – Foundation Models & Agentic AI
- Employer Wells Fargo
- Location Wellston, Saint Louis County
- Type Full Time
- Posted June 17, 2026
- Apply by 2026-07-29
- Country context US
- Overview Full original description on this page (326 words; rewritten for clarity, not a teaser paste)
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