AI Agent Engineer — Hybrid Industrial ML Platform

Ford Motor Company; Redford Charter Township (MI); Hybrid; USD 87,000 - 145,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Medical benefits

Parental leave

Family benefits

Vehicle discount

Tuition assistance

Employee resource groups

PTO & holidays

Holidays

Job summary

Ford Motor Company in Michigan is seeking a senior engineer to advance ATP's AI agents in manufacturing. You’ll build and orchestrate agents, connect to CoreMesh and plant data, and continuously evaluate and improve the system.

Responsibilities include designing multi-step workflows, maintaining prompts and tool use, and validating outputs with clear sources and confidence. This is a hybrid onsite role with strong salary bands and growth opportunities.

Qualifications

• Bachelor's degree in Computer Science, Data Science, Engineering, Statistics, or a related field.
• At least 6–8 years' experience in data science, machine learning engineering, or software engineering, including production work.
• Experience with Mfg Controls.
• Hands-on experience building with large language models: prompting, retrieval-augmented generation, tool use, and agent frameworks.
• Strong Python and SQL.
• Experience designing experiments and evaluating model or system output.

Responsibilities

• Build agents that classify issues, plan investigations, call tools, and draft recommendations.
• Design multi-step and multi-agent workflows with clear hand-offs and stopping rules.
• Write and maintain prompts, tool definitions, and retrieval logic.
• Connect agents to production, quality, and maintenance data and to CoreMesh, ATP's manufacturing ontology and knowledge graph.
• Rank and filter evidence so agents reason on the right sources, and show those sources in every output.
• Have agents flag low confidence or missing data and hand off to a person.
• Test agents against the shared evaluation sets before each release, and add cases from plant experts.
• Analyze failures, compare approaches, and improve accuracy, cost, and response time.
• Turn user feedback and confirmed fixes into better agent behavior.
• Spend time with supervisors and engineers at Kentucky Truck Plant to see how problems really get solved.

Skills

Python

SQL

LLM prompting

Agent frameworks

Mfg controls

Experiment design

Model evaluation

Education

Bachelor's degree in Computer Science/Data Science/Engineering/Statistics or related field

Tools

LangGraph

Google ADK

Google Cloud Platform

Vertex AI

Job description

Ford Motor Company in Michigan is seeking a senior engineer to advance ATP's AI agents in manufacturing. You’ll build and orchestrate agents, connect to CoreMesh and plant data, and continuously evaluate and improve the system.

Responsibilities include designing multi-step workflows, maintaining prompts and tool use, and validating outputs with clear sources and confidence. This is a hybrid onsite role with strong salary bands and growth opportunities.