2 banks are hiring for AI-titled roles in Phoenix, 6 postings as of Sep 24, 2026 – Oct 14, 2026: Western Alliance (4), Amex (2). The most common families are AI engineering (4), agentic AI & LLM (3), AI security (2); 2 of the postings carry VP-and-above or “head of” titles. Phoenix ranks number 8 among the cities named on bank AI postings in the snapshot. These are postings on the banks' own careers sites and show who is recruiting, not what any bank has deployed.
Which banks have the most AI openings in Phoenix?
| # | Bank | AI postings in Phoenix | Role families | Top locations | Seniority mix | As of | Careers |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Western Alliance open roles on its page → | 4 | AI engineering (3), Agentic AI & LLM (1), AI product & strategy (1) | Phoenix (4) | 0 leadership · 4 principal/lead · 0 other | Sep 24, 2026 | careers site ↗ |
| 2 | Amex open roles on its page → | 2 | AI security (2), Agentic AI & LLM (2), AI engineering (1) | Phoenix (2) | 2 leadership · 0 principal/lead · 0 other | Oct 1, 2026 | careers site ↗ |
Data as of Sep 24, 2026 – Oct 14, 2026 · 2 banks · 6 postings · each bank's own careers site. A job posting is evidence that a bank is recruiting, not of what it has deployed; for that, read the bank's page. Counts are AI-titled postings listed on the profile, not headcount, and a profile lists at most 12 postings per bank.
What AI titles are banks posting in Phoenix?
| Title | Bank | Family | Location | Seniority | Posted |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Director - Cyber Security / Agentic AI - IAM Engineering | Amex | AI security Agentic AI & LLM AI engineering | Phoenix | Leadership | Sep 28, 2026 |
| Director of Cyber Security / Agentic AI - Privileged Access Management (PAM) | Amex | AI security Agentic AI & LLM | Phoenix | Leadership | Sep 28, 2026 |
| AI Forward DevOps Staff Engineer II | Western Alliance | AI engineering | Phoenix | Principal, lead, staff and manager | Sep 22, 2026 |
| AI Forward Principal Engineer I | Western Alliance | AI engineering | Phoenix | Principal, lead, staff and manager | Sep 22, 2026 |
| Principal Analyst I - Generative AI Analyst | Western Alliance | Agentic AI & LLM AI product & strategy | Phoenix | Principal, lead, staff and manager | Not dated |
| Staff Engineer II - AI Full Stack Engineer | Western Alliance | AI engineering | Phoenix | Principal, lead, staff and manager | Not dated |
Data as of Sep 24, 2026 – Oct 14, 2026. Each title links to the posting on the bank's careers site; postings close without notice.
Which kinds of AI roles are open in Phoenix?
| Role family | Postings in Phoenix | Banks |
|---|---|---|
| AI engineering | 4 | Amex, Western Alliance |
| Agentic AI & LLM | 3 | Amex, Western Alliance |
| AI security | 2 | Amex |
| AI product & strategy | 1 | Western Alliance |
Data as of Sep 24, 2026 – Oct 14, 2026. Families overlap. Family pages: Responsible AI & governance · AI security · AI research · Agentic AI & LLM · ML & data science · AI product & strategy · AI engineering.
Where else are banks hiring for AI?
How are these counts built, and what do they not show?
Each bank page on this site carries an “Open AI roles” block: the postings whose title names AI, machine learning, data science, generative AI, LLMs, agents or MLOps on the bank's own careers site on the date shown, found by searching that site and keeping only titles that are about AI. 58 of the 140 bank pages carry such a block as of Sep 24, 2026 – Oct 14, 2026; the other 82 have not been surveyed yet, or their careers sites could not be searched, so a bank missing here is not a bank that is not hiring. A profile lists at most 12 postings, so a count of 12 means “at least 12” and is shown as 12+.
Role families are assigned from the title alone with fixed word lists (responsible AI & governance: titles naming responsible AI, AI governance, AI risk, model risk, AI compliance, supervision, controls, validation or ethics; AI security: titles naming security, cyber, identity, threat, red team, offensive security, DLP or data protection alongside AI; AI research: titles naming AI research, research scientists or fellows, and applied machine-learning scientists; agentic AI & LLM: titles naming agents, agentic AI, LLMs, generative AI, RAG, prompt or context engineering, conversational AI, copilots or chatbots; ML & data science: titles naming data science, machine learning, ML, MLOps, modelling, quantitative analytics, data engineering or data architecture alongside AI; AI product & strategy: titles naming product, programme, strategy, transformation, enablement, adoption, go-to-market, consulting, analysis or AI leadership (head of AI), plus AI internships; AI engineering: titles naming engineers, architects, developers, SREs, DevOps, platforms, infrastructure, cloud, integration or automation alongside AI); a title can sit in more than one family, so family counts add up to more than the number of postings. Seniority is also read from the title: VP, SVP, director, executive director, managing director and “head of” count as leadership (at US banks a vice president is often a mid-level grade); principal, lead, staff, distinguished and manager titles are the middle band; everything else, interns included, is the third. Locations are the first city a posting names; postings that name only a country, “2 locations” or nothing are left out of the city tables.
Postings are a snapshot: they close, reopen and get re-titled, and the same requisition can appear in several cities. Counts are not headcount, not budgets and not a measure of how far a bank's AI programme has gone; a bank that hires through agencies, internal transfers or untitled “software engineer” requisitions will look smaller here than it is. Where a posting carries no date, the careers site did not show one. Snapshots older than 45 days are flagged as stale; each bank's page shows the same list with its own date, and the AI index is the place for what banks have actually put on the record.
Which banks are hiring for AI in Phoenix?
2 banks list AI-titled postings in Phoenix as of Sep 24, 2026 – Oct 14, 2026: Western Alliance (4), Amex (2); 6 postings in all, which makes Phoenix the number 8 city for bank AI postings in the snapshot. Postings show who is recruiting, not what a bank has deployed.
What AI roles are banks hiring for in Phoenix?
By family, AI engineering (4), agentic AI & LLM (3), AI security (2), AI product & strategy (1); a title can belong to more than one family. 2 of the 6 postings are VP-and-above or "head of" titles.
How is a posting assigned to Phoenix?
By the first city named on the posting; a requisition listed as "Phoenix (+3 more)" counts here once and nowhere else, and a posting that names only a country or "2 locations" is not counted in any city. Counts are postings on the bank's own careers site on the snapshot date, not headcount, and a profile lists at most 12 postings per bank.
Which other cities have the most bank AI postings?
New York (49), Charlotte (25), Pittsburgh (17), Chicago (15), London (10), Bengaluru (10). New York, Charlotte, Pittsburgh, Chicago, London, Bengaluru, Columbus, Dallas and Minneapolis have their own pages.
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