AI Solutions Engineer for Enterprise Apps

Southern Company; Birmingham (AL); Hybrid; USD 120,000 - 160,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Relocation assistance

Job summary

Southern Company in Birmingham, AL is seeking an AI Engineer or Application Analyst to design, build, and scale AI solutions in a critical-infrastructure environment. You will translate use-case intent into production-ready agents, models, and workflows, aligning with enterprise standards.

You will collaborate with architects and ML Ops, optimize performance and cost, and ensure responsible AI with guardrails.

Qualifications

• Experience building AI/ML apps in enterprise settings.
• Understand planners, tool-calling, memory, and multi-agent collaboration.
• Familiar with enterprise data platforms and APIs.
• Aware of AI governance, risk, and compliance in regulated environments.

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

Skills

AI/ML apps

Agentic AI

Data platforms

AI governance

Problem solving

Product mindset

Effective communicator

Tools

Python

Databricks

Prompt engineering

Vector databases

APIs integration

CI/CD basics

Job description

Southern Company in Birmingham, AL is seeking an AI Engineer or Application Analyst to design, build, and scale AI solutions in a critical-infrastructure environment. You will translate use-case intent into production-ready agents, models, and workflows, aligning with enterprise standards.

You will collaborate with architects and ML Ops, optimize performance and cost, and ensure responsible AI with guardrails.