Enterprise AI Engineer: Agents & LLMs (Hybrid)

AbilityLinks; Atlanta (GA); Hybrid; USD 150,000 - 230,000; Full time

Job summary

Southern Company is seeking an AI Engineer to design, build, and scale enterprise AI agents and workflows in a regulated, safety‑driven environment. The role emphasizes governance, observability, and collaboration with architects and ML Ops to deliver production‑grade AI solutions.

You will work across data platforms, tool integration, and retrieval patterns, ensuring cost‑efficient deployment while meeting security and governance standards.

Qualifications

• Experience building AI and machine learning applications in enterprise settings.
• Practical understanding of agentic AI concepts, including planners, tool‑calling, memory, and multi‑agent collaboration.
• Familiarity with enterprise data platforms and APIs, including structured, unstructured, and document‑based data.
• Awareness of AI governance, risk, and compliance considerations 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

Enterprise data

AI governance

Problem solving

Product mindset

Clear communicator

Tools

Python

Databricks

Prompt engineering

Vector databases

API integration

CI/CD

Job description

Southern Company is seeking an AI Engineer to design, build, and scale enterprise AI agents and workflows in a regulated, safety‑driven environment. The role emphasizes governance, observability, and collaboration with architects and ML Ops to deliver production‑grade AI solutions.

You will work across data platforms, tool integration, and retrieval patterns, ensuring cost‑efficient deployment while meeting security and governance standards.