Lead AI Engineer, Forward-Deployed Analytics

Ceridian HCM, Inc; United States; On-site; USD 160,000 - 220,000; Full time

Job summary

Ceridian HCM, Inc. is seeking a Senior Forward Deployed AI Engineer, Analytics to partner with analytics teams and business stakeholders. You will prototype, validate, deploy, and improve AI solutions, moving beyond dashboards toward conversational analytics and AI-enabled decision support.

In this role, you will work independently on diverse problems, align with governance and platform teams, and drive trusted AI experiences with measurable business value.

Qualifications

• 5+ years of related experience in software/analytics/AI engineering.
• Hands-on experience building and deploying production AI/analytics solutions.
• Strong Python, SQL, APIs, testing, version control, and CI/CD practices.
• Experience with LLMs, retrieval-augmented generation, AI agents, tool calling, embeddings, and semantic retrieval.
• Experience with enterprise AI services or platforms (Azure OpenAI, OpenAI, etc.).
• Experience with analytics platforms and BI tools like Power BI, Databricks, Snowflake or equivalent.

Responsibilities

• Partner with analytics and business teams to translate needs into technical requirements and production-ready AI experiences.
• Independently deliver AI use cases from discovery to deployment and monitoring.
• Improve solution accuracy, relevance, reliability, and adoption using feedback data.
• Ensure governance, security, and platform decisions are followed; document reusable patterns.

Skills

Python

SQL

APIs

CI/CD

Version control

LLMs

Retrieval augmented generation

AI agents

Education

Bachelor's degree

Tools

Azure OpenAI

Azure AI Foundry

OpenAI

Databricks

Power BI

Job description

Ceridian HCM, Inc. is seeking a Senior Forward Deployed AI Engineer, Analytics to partner with analytics teams and business stakeholders. You will prototype, validate, deploy, and improve AI solutions, moving beyond dashboards toward conversational analytics and AI-enabled decision support.

In this role, you will work independently on diverse problems, align with governance and platform teams, and drive trusted AI experiences with measurable business value.