Senior AI Engineer: Production AI Leader & Governance

Emerson; Bologna; On-site; EUR 42,000 - 77,000; Full time

Job summary

Emerson in Bologna is seeking a Senior AI Engineer to lead the design, development, deployment, and production support of complex AI solutions, including generative AI, with emphasis on responsible adoption and governance.

You will own end-to-end initiatives, translate business opportunities into scalable architectures, build secure APIs and workflows, and coach peers while delivering hands-on contributions across AI engineering, enablement, and governance for the global PRM organization.

Qualifications

• Demonstrated experience independently leading the design, architecture, delivery, and production support of complex AI, machine‑learning, or AI‑enabled software solutions.
• Strong software‑engineering capability in a modern programming language, with experience designing secure APIs and integrations and applying source control, automated testing, CI/CD, deployment controls, and production observability.
• Hands‑on experience developing generative and agentic AI solutions using grounding and retrieval, structured outputs, tool/use, workflow orchestration, evaluation, safety controls, and human oversight.
• Experience operationalizing security, privacy, responsible‑AI, documentation, quality, governance, and monitoring requirements throughout the solution lifecycle.
• Ability to translate ambiguous business problems into clear technical approaches, explain complex decisions to technical and non‑technical stakeholders, and influence delivery across a global organization.
• Experience providing technical guidance through peer review, coaching, reusable engineering practices, or cross‑functional collaboration while remaining accountable for hands‑on delivery.

Responsibilities

• Lead the design, architecture, development, deployment, support, and continuous improvement of complex production AI solutions, including generative AI, agentic AI, and selected machine‑learning or data‑science applications.
• Translate complex or ambiguous business opportunities into solution architectures, delivery approaches, and production capabilities, using advanced judgment when information or precedent is limited.
• Own significant architecture and design decisions for assigned initiatives, evaluate technical alternatives and risks, and develop secure APIs, workflows, applications, integrations, and reusable components using approved enterprise capabilities.
• Advance engineering and DevOps practices across PRM AI solutions by developing reusable patterns, improving technical standards, leading critical peer reviews, and strengthening testing, deployment, documentation, monitoring, and operational support.
• Enable employees to use approved AI capabilities effectively and responsibly through training, demonstrations, prompt and use‑case coaching, reusable guidance, and hands‑on support across the global PRM organization.
• Assess technical, operational, and responsible‑AI risks; operationalize established Emerson and PRM governance requirements; and guide teams through architecture, privacy, cybersecurity, compliance, testing, documentation, review, and production‑readiness decisions.
• Influence global business and technical stakeholders, coach other engineers, review complex work, and promote reusable practices that raise AI engineering quality and accelerate responsible delivery across PRM.

Skills

AI governance

DevOps

Cloud architecture

API design

Security governance

Mentoring engineers

Tools

CI/CD

Observability

Job description

Emerson in Bologna is seeking a Senior AI Engineer to lead the design, development, deployment, and production support of complex AI solutions, including generative AI, with emphasis on responsible adoption and governance.

You will own end-to-end initiatives, translate business opportunities into scalable architectures, build secure APIs and workflows, and coach peers while delivering hands-on contributions across AI engineering, enablement, and governance for the global PRM organization.