Principal AI Solutions Engineer: Enterprise AI & Automation

Bausch + Lomb; Jackson (MS); On-site; USD 165,000 - 190,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Medical, dental, vision insurance

401(k) plan and company match

Tuition reimbursement

Job summary

Bausch + Lomb is seeking a Principal AI Solutions Engineer to design, build, and deploy production-ready AI agents that reason, use tools, and execute end-to-end business tasks. The role sits in the AI / Digital Center of Excellence and partners across the enterprise to turn SOPs and decision logic into secure, scalable AI solutions.

The position blends deep engineering with a consulting mindset, working with business leaders to frame problems, quantify impact, and deliver AI agents that improve

Qualifications

• Bachelor's degree in business, Engineering, Computer Science, Information Systems, or a related field; advanced degree preferred.
• 5+ years of experience in software engineering, automation, process engineering, or related technical roles delivering production solutions.
• 1+ year hands-on experience building with LLM APIs and/or agent frameworks (not just experimentation, shipping is preferred).
• Experience operating in consulting-style or advisory roles, including problem structuring, executive communication, and influencing without authority.

Responsibilities

• Re-imagine enterprise work with an AI-first mindset: Diagnose end-to-end processes and identify high-value workflows suitable for AI-driven transformation.
• Process-to-agent translation: Map workflows, SOPs, controls, and decision logic; facilitate working sessions with business SMEs to decompose them into agent-friendly steps (reasoning, execution, validation, escalation, human-in-the-loop).
• Consultative problem framing & value prioritization: Partner with business leaders to structure ambiguous problems, quantify impact, and translate them into clear AI solution hypotheses.
• Build AI agents (hands-on): Develop agents using Python and modern agent frameworks to analyze information, follow procedures, call tools/APIs, and complete tasks end-to-end.
• Integrate with enterprise systems: Build logic layers and integrations across APIs, workflow tools, data platforms, and approved enterprise data sources.
• Deploy securely to production: Use enterprise AI platforms with appropriate security, access controls, monitoring, and reliability practices.
• Production quality & Responsible AI: Implement guardrails, observability, evaluation, and fallback mechanisms to ensure safe and reliable operation.
• Operate in Agile delivery cycles: Manage work through backlogs, iterative releases, and measurable outcomes in close collaboration with IT, data, security, and platform teams.

Skills

LLM APIs

Agent frameworks

Software engineering

Consulting-style

Executive communication

Problem framing

Python

Education

Bachelor's degree

Advanced degree preferred

Tools

Azure AI Foundry

Python

Job description

Bausch + Lomb is seeking a Principal AI Solutions Engineer to design, build, and deploy production-ready AI agents that reason, use tools, and execute end-to-end business tasks. The role sits in the AI / Digital Center of Excellence and partners across the enterprise to turn SOPs and decision logic into secure, scalable AI solutions.

The position blends deep engineering with a consulting mindset, working with business leaders to frame problems, quantify impact, and deliver AI agents that improve