Senior AI Engineer – Agentic Solutions & Digital Thread
About The Position
The Senior AI Engineer – Agentic Solutions & Digital Thread is an experienced technologist who designs, builds, operates, and continuously improves enterprise AI-enabled applications. This role emphasizes agentic architectures, advanced Retrieval-Augmented Generation (RAG), and intelligent automation within a complex, multi-site aerospace and defense manufacturing environment subject to ITAR/EAR, CMMC/DFARS, and rigorous quality standards. The role serves as the lead developer for assigned AI and agentic solution use cases, translating business requirements into scalable, auditable, and explainable implementations aligned to enterprise Digital Thread, Master Data Management (MDM), Intelligent Automation and Smart Factory initiatives. This role applies advanced knowledge acquired through relevant and substantial work experience. As the lead developer, this role is also comfortable experimenting with new techniques and coaching other development staff on AI-assisted and Agentic software delivery practices. This role assists others with more complex problems and designs elegant solutions to tackle them.
Requirements
- Typically, a bachelor’s degree in computer science, Software Engineering, AI/ML, or equivalent experience.
- 8+ years of professional software development, with 3+ years focused on AI/ML solution development.
- Hands-on experience with agentic AI frameworks (Semantic Kernel, AutoGen, LangChain/LangGraph, CrewAI, or equivalent), MCP (Model Context Protocol), multi-agent orchestration, and secure tool integration patterns.
- Demonstrated experience designing and implementing advanced RAG architectures, including vector databases, embedding models, retrieval strategies, and Context Engineering techniques to ground AI responses in enterprise knowledge.
- Strong communication and collaboration skills with technical and non-technical stakeholders.
- Proficiency in Python and at least one additional language (C#, .NET, or TypeScript).
- Strong experience with Microsoft Azure services and cloud-native architectures.
- Experience with CI/CD pipelines, Infrastructure as Code, automated testing, and Agile/DevOps delivery.
- Experience with Databricks, lakehouse architectures, and enterprise data integration patterns.
- Experience with event-driven architectures and integration platforms (Azure Service Bus, Event Grid, Kafka).
- Exposure to MDM, data governance, data quality frameworks, or rules-based systems.
- Exposure to digital thread concepts in manufacturing, including PLM (Teamcenter), ERP (SAP), MES, and QMS integration.
- Experience in aerospace, defense, or regulated manufacturing environments (ITAR, EAR, CMMC, DFARS).
- Familiarity with AI governance frameworks (e.g., NIST AI RMF) and responsible AI practices.
Nice To Haves
- Azure certifications (Azure AI Engineer, Azure Solutions Architect) are a plus.
Responsibilities
- Design and implement agentic software architectures where AI agents perform code generation, test automation, and documentation, always under human oversight with deterministic guardrails and clear accountability boundaries.
- Build agent workflows that exercise rules management, auditability, deterministic logic, high trust thresholds, and reusability across domains, using MDM and data quality platforms as foundational workloads, with fallback-to-human protocols for safety-critical decisions.
- Design and implement advanced RAG architectures that ground AI responses in authoritative enterprise data.
- Build and maintain vector stores, embedding pipelines, and hybrid retrieval strategies optimized for domain-specific technical content.
- Enforce data classification, export control boundaries, and role-based access controls.
- Develop event-driven integrations aligned to digital thread principles.
- Build AI-enabled capabilities that consume digital thread events to automate downstream decision-making and exception detection.
- Implement thread contracts to ensure deterministic, auditable system behavior that eliminates manual reconciliation.
- Design and maintain AI-enabled applications using Python, C#/.NET on Microsoft Azure, leveraging Azure OpenAI, Claude, Azure AI Search, Databricks, and agent frameworks (Semantic Kernel, AutoGen, LangChain, or equivalent).
- Implement CI/CD pipelines, Infrastructure as Code, automated testing, monitoring, telemetry, and operational runbooks for production-grade reliability.
- Implement rule-level execution logs, record-level lineage, match/merge traceability, and interface health dashboards with explainability layers for state changes and agent decisions.
- Ensure embedded governance-by-design and compliance with ITAR/EAR, CMMC/DFARS, and CUI handling requirements.
- Collaborate with product owners, enterprise architects, data teams, and business stakeholders.
- Coach and review the work of junior developers.
Benefits
- great compensation package
- annual profit sharing
- matching 401k
- Employee Stock Purchase Plan
- Flexible Spending and Health Savings Accounts
- Flexible paid time off
- holidays
- parental leave program
- Comprehensive insurance coverage including medical, dental, vision, life, disability, Employee Assistance Plan (“EAP”) and other supplemental benefit coverages.
- Tuition Assistance
- mentorship and coaching opportunities
- leadership development
- personal growth programs
- Employee Resource Groups
- cultural events, and celebrations
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What This Job Offers
Job Type
Full-time
Career Level
Senior
