Pay range:

USD $126,500.00 - $200,000.00 / Year

Your opportunity

At Schwab, you're empowered to make an impact on your career. Here, innovative thought meets creative problem solving, helping us "challenge the status quo" and transform the finance industry together.

We believe in the importance of in-office collaboration and fully intend for the selected candidate for this role to work on site in the specified location(s). This role is expected to be in the office 4 days a week.

As part of the CTS SAvE Enablement Team, you'll play a key role in helping teams work smarter, faster, and more reliably.

Our Mission

Drive continuous improvement by optimizing processes, scaling efficiency, and leveraging data-driven solutions. We enhance productivity and reliability through shared best practices while fostering a culture of innovation and collaboration across Corporate Technology Services (CTS) and the broader STS organization.

Our Vision

Be a catalyst for transformative growth by setting the standard for operational excellence. We empower CTS SAvE teams to reach their full potential through streamlined processes, optimal resource utilization, and modern automation and AI solutions-delivering an exceptional customer experience.

About the Role

In this role, you'll lead hands-on engineering efforts to design, build, and scale intelligent automation and AI solutions that reduce manual effort, improve quality, and enhance the day-to-day experience of engineering and support teams.

You'll partner closely with teams across SAvE, product, architecture, ART (Toil Reduction), and IS&O to identify high-value use cases, deliver measurable outcomes, and scale solutions responsibly. You'll also play a key role in enabling others-coaching engineers, evolving platforms and patterns, and helping teams deliver solutions quickly and safely.

This role is well suited for someone who is curious, adaptable, and motivated to keep learning. Automation and AI technologies evolve rapidly, and you'll be encouraged to continuously build new skills as tools, platforms, and practices advance.

The CTS SAvE Enablement team sits within Corporate Technology Services, offering opportunities to collaborate through community engagement, office hours, leadership forums, resiliency initiatives, and an engineering-focused Community of Practice.

What You'll Do:

• Champion an automation-first and efficiency-driven mindset across CTS.
• Partner with engineering, support, and business stakeholders to design and deliver impactful automation and AI solutions.
• Build workflows, orchestration, rules, and AI capabilities that reduce toil and eliminate manual effort.
• Collaborate with CTS and STS automation teams to share patterns, tools, and best practices.
• Develop and maintain frameworks, tooling, and instrumentation that improve reliability and release success.
• Document automation standards and best practices and drive adoption across teams.
• Coach and mentor engineers, fostering a culture of learning, knowledge sharing, and continuous improvement.
• Design and implement automation and AI solutions responsibly, with appropriate controls and risk awareness .

What you have

To ensure that we fulfill our promise of "challenging the status quo," this role has specific qualifications that successful candidates should have:

Required Qualifications:

• Bachelor's degree in Engineering, Computer Science, or a related field.
• 5+ years of experience in a senior-level engineering role focused on automation and/or AI solutions.
• Strong software engineering skills, including experience building services and APIs using at least one modern programming language (such as Python, C#, or Java).
• Hands-on experience with CI/CD pipelines and Dev Sec Ops practice.s
• Practical experience with intelligent automation and at least one AI domain (such as Machine Learning, Natural Language Processing, or Generative AI), including evaluation or observability.
• Experience applying Responsible AI principles and partnering with risk or governance teams.
• Strong communication skills, with the ability to align stakeholders and manage priorities effectively.
• Experience presenting technical solutions or leading enablement or training sessions to drive adoption and improve team performance.
• Experience mentoring or leading engineers in automation and AI practices.
• Demonstrated success delivering automation or AI solutions that resulted in measurable efficiency or quality improvements.

Applicants must be currently authorized to work in the United States on a full-time basis without employer sponsorship.

In addition to the salary range, this role is also eligible for bonus or incentive opportunities

What's in it for you

At Schwab, you're empowered to shape your future. We champion your growth through meaningful work, continuous learning, and a culture of trust and collaboration-so you can build the skills to make a lasting impact. Our Hybrid Work and Flexibility approach balances our ongoing commitment to workplace flexibility, serving our clients, and our strong belief in the value of being together in person on a regular basis.

We offer a competitive benefits package that takes care of the whole you - both today and in the future:

• 401(k) with company match and Employee stock purchase plan
• Paid time for vacation, volunteering, and 28-day sabbatical after every 5 years of service for eligible positions
• Paid parental leave and family building benefits
• Tuition reimbursement
• Health, dental, and vision insurance