AI Engineer

J.D. Power; United States; Remote; USD 115,000 - 130,000; Full time

Job summary

JD Power invites applications for an AI Engineer (P3) to join the Innovation Crew. This remote role spans the USA, Canada, Europe and Australia, offering hands-on work with frontier AI systems, agentic frameworks, and core data infrastructure.

You will ship features in PoC sprints, contribute to the Power Agents library, and collaborate with the AI Experience Engineer to connect UI to backend services and data sources like Snowflake.

Qualifications

• Full-stack engineering fundamentals across backend and frontend, able to build a working API and surface it through a UI.
• Genuine, demonstrable curiosity about AI systems; familiarity with LLMs, RAG, and tool-calling concepts.
• Clean, well-documented code and a fast-learning orientation; comfortable collaborating with senior engineers and learning quickly.

Responsibilities

• Build full-stack features and components for Innovation Crew pilots: backend services, REST APIs, data pipelines, and frontend interfaces.
• Integrate builds with Snowflake, internal APIs, and cloud platforms; ensure data access and schema conventions.
• Contribute to Power Agents library with new patterns, tests, and observable, auditable code.
• Develop tool integrations, evaluation harnesses, and observability instrumentation for AI agents.

Skills

Full-stack engineering

Python

TypeScript

LLM tooling

Tools

Snowflake

BigQuery

Power Agents library

Job description

Job Description

Title: AI Engineer (P3)

Location: Remote – USA, Canada, Europe or Australia

Reports to: Sr. Director, AI & Innovation

Vacancy: Existing Vacancy

The Role

You build the full-stack components that power Innovation Crew pilots and prototypes. Under the technical direction of the Principal AI Engineer, in close collaboration with the AI Experience Engineer, you write the backend services, API integrations, data connectors, and frontend implementations that turn AI architectures into working systems. This role has a high ceiling and a fast runway: you will be working alongside engineers at the frontier of AI application development, with hands‑on exposure to frontier model APIs, agentic frameworks, Power Agents library development, and JDPower's core data infrastructure. You arrive with strong engineering fundamentals and a genuine appetite for AI systems. You gain deep, production‑proven agentic engineering experience. In your first 30 days, you will have your first feature shipped inside a PoC sprint and the codebase oriented. By day60, you will have your first PowerAgents contribution reviewed and merged. By day90, you will have full implementation ownership of at least one PoC component.

How we Build Agents

The Innovation Crew builds alongside its own AI agent workforce. As AI Engineer, you will contribute to building and maintaining those agents: writing the tool integrations, evaluation harnesses, and API connectors that give agents access to JDPower's data and systems. You learn to build for observability from day one - every agent pattern you ship is instrumented, testable, and inspectable. The bar here is not "it worked in the demo" but "it behaves predictably, and we can prove it." When a pattern proves reliable, you contribute it to the Power Agents library, where 400+ engineers & knowledge workers can build on it.

The Impact You Will Have in This Role

Innovation Crew pilots only get built because the engineering work that underlies them gets done cleanly and quickly. You are the execution engine that turns architectural direction into working code. You build backend services that connect to Snowflake, API integrations that wire agent outputs to JDPower's core platforms, frontend components the AI Experience Engineer builds on. The pilots you help build will be handed off as operational systems to maintaining teams within Product Engineering, Engineering, OEM Solutions, Infrastructure, and Internal Platforms. You will contribute directly to the Power Agents library, meaning code you write will be used by engineers & knowledge workers across JDPower.

What You’ll Be Doing in This Role

• Build full-stack features and components for Innovation Crew pilots under the technical direction of the Principal AI Engineer: backend services, REST APIs, data pipeline connectors, and frontend implementations; writing clean, well-documented code oriented toward handoff to maintaining teams within Product Engineering, Engineering, OEM Solutions, Infrastructure, or Internal Platforms.
• Integrate Innovation Crew builds with JDPower's core data infrastructure: Snowflake, internal APIs, cloud platforms, and the API Gateway following published gateway standards and working with Internal Platforms to confirm data access, schema conventions, and connection patterns before building.
• Contribute to Power Agents library development: implement new agent patterns under the direction of the Principal AI Engineer, write tests, instrument traces, and document behavior so every module you contribute is auditable, testable, and reusable by the engineering organization.
• Contribute to the team's AI agent workforce: build tool integrations, evaluation harnesses, and observability instrumentation that give development agents access to JDPower's systems; implement the baseline evals that let the team verify agent behavior is reliable before relying on it.
• Consume and configure frontier model APIs, agentic frameworks (LangGraph, CrewAI, or equivalent), and MCP server integrations as directed; develop hands‑on proficiency with the team's AI engineering stack in a production‑adjacent environment with real delivery pressure.
• Collaborate closely with the AI Experience Engineer to bring interface designs to life: implement frontend components, connect UI layers to backend services, and contribute to the shared component library.
• Support intake technical scoping by mapping integration dependencies, spiking on technical unknowns, and estimating effort; participate in Emerging Technology evaluations by building PoC implementations and contributing benchmark findings to Technology Radar drafts.

Qualifications of this Role

Full-stack engineering fundamentals across backend (REST APIs, cloud-native service patterns) and frontend: solid enough to build a working API, connect it to a data source, and surface it through a functional UI - you do not need a dedicated teammate to do either half. Genuine, demonstrable curiosity about AI systems: you have built something with an LLM API, understand what RAG and tool‑calling mean in practice, follow frontier model developments, and actively use AI coding tools as part of how you work. Clean, well‑documented code and a fast‑learning orientation: this role pairs closely with principal‑level engineers who move quickly; you absorb direction, ask sharp questions, and contribute meaningfully without waiting for complete specifications. Also Valued Python and/or TypeScript; experience with LangChain, LangGraph, or equivalent agent frameworks; familiarity with Snowflake, BigQuery, or equivalent cloud data platform. RAG patterns, vector databases (pgvector, Pinecone, Weaviate), and basic eval harness design, even if you have only done this in a side project, knowing the concepts matters. Observability basics: you know the difference between a trace and a log, have seen Langfuse or LangSmith in use, and understand why instrumentation is part of building, not a post‑build step. JDPower internal platform or API familiarity; existing knowledge of our data schemas or product ecosystem reduces ramp time significantly.

The Hiring Manager says

“I am looking for someone with strong engineering fundamentals and a genuine hunger to apply them to AI systems. You do not need a five-year track record, you need to have built something real with an LLM, have clean code instincts, and be ready to learn fast alongside engineers who are working at the frontier. If you can demo something you actually shipped (an agent, a RAG pipeline, a tool‑calling integration, anything where you can walk through what broke and how you fixed it) that tells me everything I need to know.”

Salary

This position has a starting salary range of $115,000 - $130,000 USD / $95,000 - $115,000 CAD per year. This is the range we reasonably and in good faith expect to pay for the role at the time of posting. An employee’s 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.

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Candidates must be legally authorized to work in the country where employment is offered. JD Power does not provide employment sponsorship for this position.

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