Senior AI Engineer

Job Description:

Title: Senior AI Engineer (P4)

Location: Remote USA Canada

Reports to: Managing Director AI & Software Engineering

The Role:

You will design build and operate production-grade Generative AI solutions that power our products and analytical solutions. You will work across data models and applications to deliver reliable AI workflows integrating large language models with modern data and analytics environments. You will own initiatives end-to-end including architecture experimentation deployment monitoring and continuous improvement.

The Impact You Will Have in This Role:

You will shape how we apply Generative AI to high-value business problems by building systems that measurably improve customer experience operational efficiency and decision quality. You will raise the quality bar for production AI by setting standards for design safety evaluation and operational readiness. You will mentor other engineers and partner with product data science and business stakeholders to translate ambiguity into scalable AI capabilities across multiple products and use cases.

What Youll Be Doing in This Role:

• Lead the design and implementation of Generative AI services and Agentic workflows that support multiple product features or teams.

• Integrate LLMs into applications using modern frameworks working with APIs or internal model endpoints. Implement telemetry observability fallbacks and cost/latency controls.

• Work across data environments to ingest transform and serve data for AI use cases designing practical schemas and retrieval strategies that generalize across environments.

• Design and run experiments to compare prompts models and configurations; build evaluation flows to measure relevance safety robustness and business impact.

• Collaborate with product data science design and domain experts to clarify requirements break down initiatives into technical plans and deliver roadmap commitments.

• Contribute to and lead code reviews architecture discussions documentation and shared templates/libraries that improve velocity and consistency.

• Monitor AI systems in production participate in incident response and drive systemic improvements to quality safety reliability and performance.

• Partner with security legal and compliance to ensure data privacy responsible AI practices and regulatory alignment.

Qualifications of This Role:

• Degree in Computer Science Data Science Software Engineering or related field.

• At least 8yrs of professional experience with a Bachelors degree or 6 yrs with a Graduate degree

• 1-year experience in Generative AI technologies (included in the overall professional experience) or 1-2 relevant certifications.

• Logical practical and innovative problem-solving skills. Can turn ambiguity into architecture milestones and explicit tradeoffs.

• Strong customer-facing communication: able to lead technical discussions write clear technical documents and explain solutions to technical and non-technical audiences.

• Shipped and operated LLM-enabled features in production including evaluation monitoring and iteration.

• Working knowledge of Generative AI quality and safety practices.

• Experience building data-intensive systems end-to-end.

• Data engineering fundamentals: ingestion/transforms maintainable schemas and retrieval/feature pipelines for analytics and AI.

• Strong Python and SQL. Experience integrating services via APIs. TypeScript or other strongly typed language experience is a plus. The ability to learn new tools quickly is required.

• Hands-on experience with at least one modern data/analytics platform (e.g. Databricks Snowflake Palantir Foundry) and the ability to quickly adapt patterns across other environments.

• Ownership mindset with high standards for production readiness and customer outcomes.

• Automotive domain knowledge is a plus not required.

• Able to travel as needed for customer and internal collaboration.

The Hiring Manager Says:

An ideal candidate might find joy in problem solving and discovering novel ways to achieve an outcome. You will be designing and implementing thoughtful and robust technical solutions with some autonomy to be creative in the approach. Dont expect a step-by-step how-to guide but do expect to collaborate with other competent and experienced people to find solutions.

This position has a starting salary range of $120K - $135K CAD/$150K - $165K USD per year. This is the range we reasonably and in good faith expect to pay for the role at the time of posting. An employees pay within the range is determined by a number of factors including relevant skills education qualifications experience performance business or organizational needs and geographic location.

Company Mission

Our mission in the market we serve is clear. To power every auto-related decision through proprietary data advanced analytics deep industry expertise and seamless workflows that connect insight to action.

Our Values

We POWER Our Customers Success

We are Innovative Collaborative and Grounded in Data

We Make Things Easy

We Get It Done

We Start with Trust & Prove it Everyday

JD Power is committed to employing a diverse workforce. Qualified applicants will receive consideration without regard to race color religion sex national origin age sexual orientation gender identity gender expression veteran status or disability.

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Required Experience:

Senior IC

Employment Type : Full-Time
Experience: years
Vacancy: 1
Monthly Salary Salary: 150 - 165