Applied AI Engineering Lead - End-to-End Production

Alvarez and Marsal; Nashville (TN); On-site; USD 140,000 - 180,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Healthcare plans

401(k) retirement savings plan

Paid time off & holidays

Parental leave

Job summary

Alvarez & Marsal is seeking a Manager, Applied AI Engineer to lead end-to-end delivery of applied AI solutions in Nashville, TN. You’ll guide architecture, mentoring, and outcomes for senior stakeholders as part of the GAIKO AI Lab Team.

You will partner with business units to translate needs into AI-powered skills and agents, design production-grade data solutions, and ensure robust governance and security.

Qualifications

• Bachelor’s degree or equivalent practical experience.
• 5+ years in software engineering, data science, ML, or applied AI engineering, including 2+ years building and shipping LLM/agent-based systems.
• Strong hands-on Python development experience.
• Experience building LLM and generative AI applications, including RAG, prompting, evaluation, and agentic patterns.
• Proven track record shipping AI agents and skills into production.
• Experience building automated pipelines for creating, testing, evaluating, and deploying skills or agents at scale.
• Hands-on with MCP, agent frameworks (Claude Agent SDK, LangGraph, Semantic Kernel) and reusable skill design.
• Experience with CI/CD, testing, and observability for production systems.
• Excellent communicator and mentor for non-technical colleagues.

Responsibilities

• Own end-to-end delivery of applied AI solutions from proof of concept to production.
• Partner with business leaders to translate needs into skills and agents with clear success metrics.
• Collaborate with Knowledge Management and Data teams to convert requirements into designs.
• Ensure solutions use reliable, production-grade data across teams.
• Design, build, and operate headless skills and agentic workflows with multi-step orchestration and guardrails.
• Build pipelines and tooling for consistent skill/agent releases.
• Integrate with large language model platforms using MCP to expose skills to approved tools.
• Integrate enterprise content with preserved permissions and governance.
• Guide team on Power Platform and Microsoft stack to AI-first workflows.
• Mentor engineers via pairing, code/design reviews, and coaching.
• Apply engineering standards for skills/agents with CI/CD, versioning, and monitoring.
• Provide recommendations on tools, frameworks, and patterns; decisions made with tech lead.
• Support responsible AI use including privacy and third-party models.
• Communicate results, risks, and blockers to pod leadership and stakeholders.

Skills

Python development

LLM applications

Agent frameworks

CI/CD

Testing & observability

Mentoring

Education

Bachelor’s degree in Computer Science, Engineering, Statistics, Mathematics, or related field

Tools

MCP

Claude Agent SDK

LangGraph

Semantic Kernel

Job description

Alvarez & Marsal is seeking a Manager, Applied AI Engineer to lead end-to-end delivery of applied AI solutions in Nashville, TN. You’ll guide architecture, mentoring, and outcomes for senior stakeholders as part of the GAIKO AI Lab Team.

You will partner with business units to translate needs into AI-powered skills and agents, design production-grade data solutions, and ensure robust governance and security.