AI Innovation Engineer — Forward Deployed

Seaboard Foods; Mission (KS); On-site; USD 130,000 - 200,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Medical benefits

Vision benefits

Dental benefits

401(k) with company match

Paid time off

Wellness program

Tuition reimbursement

Job summary

Seaboard Foods is seeking a Forward Deployed Engineer‑Innovation in Merriam, KS, to automate processes, deploy AI‑powered solutions, and build internal tools for operations and cross‑functional teams.

You will own agentic workflows, extend ontology in Foundry/AIP, and push AI‑assisted software from prototype to production with a focus on measurable savings and ROI. A hands‑on, autonomous builder mindset is required.

Qualifications

• Five (5) or more years of progressive experience shipping production software, with a recent and verifiable portfolio.
• Hands‑on experience building, evaluating, and deploying LLM‑powered agents, including tool use, retrieval, and multi‑step planning.
• Strong fluency in Python and TypeScript. Working command of at least one modern agent framework and one evaluation framework.
• Working knowledge of Foundry and AIP (ontology, AIP Logic, Workshop, Pipeline Builder), or equivalent enterprise data and ontology platform experience.
• Disciplined cost and latency instincts for LLM systems, including token budgeting, caching, prompt and context optimization, and routing.
• Comfortable working directly with non‑technical operators, on the floor, in the office, and over the phone, to discover, scope, and validate problems.
• Self‑directed builder comfortable operating with high autonomy in fast‑paced, ambiguous environments with a track record of using AI‑assisted development environments to compress prototype‑to‑production timelines from months to days.

Responsibilities

• Build, evaluate, and deploy production agentic workflows end‑to‑end.
• Model and extend the ontology in Foundry and AIP.
• Surface high‑leverage manual workflows and retire them with shipped software.
• Operate and extend the Innovation team’s OpenClaw agent harness as the primary agent runtime.
• Be a part of the Innovation team’s R&D arsenal and prototype against frontier models and tools.
• Demonstrate builder‑by‑default mindset each sprint.

Skills

LLM-powered agents

Python

TypeScript

Agent frameworks

Evaluation frameworks

Cost optimization

Cross-functional collaboration

Tools

Foundry

AIP

Job description

Seaboard Foods is seeking a Forward Deployed Engineer‑Innovation in Merriam, KS, to automate processes, deploy AI‑powered solutions, and build internal tools for operations and cross‑functional teams.

You will own agentic workflows, extend ontology in Foundry/AIP, and push AI‑assisted software from prototype to production with a focus on measurable savings and ROI. A hands‑on, autonomous builder mindset is required.