AI Engineer

The Southern Company; Birmingham (AL); Hybrid; USD 120,000 - 180,000; Full time

Job summary

Southern Power is seeking an AI Engineer to design, build, and evolve AI solutions that deliver measurable business and operational value across the organization. The role translates use-case intent into production-ready agents, models, and workflows, working within enterprise standards to ensure scalable, safe solutions for a critical-infrastructure environment.

In this role you will develop AI solutions, implement end-to-end workflows, embed responsible AI guardrails, collaborate with

Responsibilities

• Develop AI solutions. Build and configure agents that reason, plan, and act using models, tools, and enterprise data, aligned to approved patterns.
• Implement use-case workflows end-to-end. Translate business and operational requirements into AI workflows spanning data ingestion, inference, tool execution, and human-in-the-loop review.
• Apply responsible AI and guardrails. Embed safety controls, validation steps, and explainability mechanisms into agent logic and prompts by design.
• Collaborate across the AI delivery lifecycle. Partner with architects on design decisions and with ML Ops to ensure smooth deployment, monitoring, and iteration.
• Optimize performance and cost. Tune prompts, models, and agent interactions to improve accuracy, latency, and cost efficiency.
• Support experimentation to production. Rapidly prototype new AI capabilities while adhering to standards that enable promotion to enterprise-grade deployments.
• Continuously improve agent behavior. Use feedback, evaluations, and operational signals to refine agent performance and reliability over time

Job description

AI Engineer

Levels 5-7

Location: The Energy Center, Birmingham, AL or Ivan Allen, Atlanta, GA

4 days in-office / 1 day remote

Designs, builds, and evolves AI solutions that deliver measurable business and operational value across Southern Power. The AI Engineer translates use-case intent into production-ready agents, models, and workflows, working within the enterprise architectural, governance, and operational standards to ensure solutions are scalable, safe, and fit for a critical-infrastructure environment.

MAJOR JOB RESPONSIBILITIES:

• Develop AI solutions. Build and configure agents that reason, plan, and act using models, tools, and enterprise data, aligned to approved patterns.
• Implement use-case workflows end-to-end. Translate business and operational requirements into AI workflows spanning data ingestion, inference, tool execution, and human-in-the-loop review.
• Apply responsible AI and guardrails. Embed safety controls, validation steps, and explainability mechanisms into agent logic and prompts by design.
• Collaborate across the AI delivery lifecycle. Partner with architects on design decisions and with ML Ops to ensure smooth deployment, monitoring, and iteration.
• Optimize performance and cost. Tune prompts, models, and agent interactions to improve accuracy, latency, and cost efficiency.
• Support experimentation to production. Rapidly prototype new AI capabilities while adhering to standards that enable promotion to enterprise-grade deployments.
• Continuously improve agent behavior. Use feedback, evaluations, and operational signals to refine agent performance and reliability over time

This position falls under the company’s Insider Threat Program and will have access to, and control over sensitive data, systems or assets. Enhanced personnel screening, which includes a background review, drug screen and psychological assessment, will be required if you are selected for this position