Lead Enterprise GenAI Engineer & AI Data Architect

Frontdoor Defense; Foster City, Northern (CA, KY); Hybrid; USD 230,000 - 300,000; Full time

Job summary

Zoox is seeking a highly motivated, hands-on Lead AI Engineer to spearhead the end-to-end development and deployment of our Enterprise Gen AI and LLM initiatives, building agentic workflows, integrating enterprise data sources, and enforcing identity-aware security across Procurement, Supply Chain, Legal, Finance, HR and MES.

In this role you will design and deploy production-grade LLM applications and intelligent agents, architect enterprise data/tool integrations with standardized connectors,

Qualifications

• 10+ years in Data/Software Engineering with 2+ years deploying GenAI/LLMs in production.
• Deep Python proficiency and experience with LangChain, LlamaIndex or provider-native orchestration.
• Hands-on experience building/integrating MCP servers or connectors.
• Experience with AI gateway solutions for governing agent traffic.
• Knowledge of SSO/identity federation (SAML, OIDC, OAuth 2.0) and identity propagation through agent calls.
• Experience with cloud AI services and vector databases.

Responsibilities

• Design and deploy production-grade LLM applications and intelligent agents capable of complex reasoning, secure tool usage and autonomous multi-step workflows.
• Architect enterprise data/tool integrations using MCP servers, establishing standardized, reusable connectors across Procurement, Supply Chain, Legal, Finance, HR and MES.
• Enforce security guardrails via AI gateways - authentication, rate-limiting, logging and policy compliance for all model/agent traffic.
• Implement identity inheritance via SSO, ensuring agents act strictly within the requesting user's permissions & privileges (no privilege escalation, no standing overreach).
• Work with the Information Security team on access control (RBAC/ABAC) for agentic systems and establish observability standards for agent behavior and data access.
• Partner with cross-functional teams to build secure, code-driven AI automation.

Skills

Python

LangChain / LlamaIndex

AI gateways / security

SSO / IAM integration

Cloud AI services

Tools

MCP servers / connectors

AI gateway solutions (Cloudflare)

OKTA / Entra ID / Ping

Vector databases (MongoDB / Pinecone / Weaviate)

Job description

Zoox is seeking a highly motivated, hands-on Lead AI Engineer to spearhead the end-to-end development and deployment of our Enterprise Gen AI and LLM initiatives, building agentic workflows, integrating enterprise data sources, and enforcing identity-aware security across Procurement, Supply Chain, Legal, Finance, HR and MES.

In this role you will design and deploy production-grade LLM applications and intelligent agents, architect enterprise data/tool integrations with standardized connectors,