Senior AI Engineer - Build Production AI for Enterprise

Paycom; Orange (CA); Hybrid; USD 140,000 - 200,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Competitive base salary + annual bonus

Medical, dental, vision coverage

401(k) with company match

Generous PTO and holidays

Music program in US offices

Job summary

Fieldpiece, a global leader in HVACR tools, seeks a Senior AI Engineer in Orange, CA with a move to Tustin in 2028. The role blends hands-on AI development with business-process transformation across departments, leveraging Microsoft ecosystem tools.

Expect a hybrid schedule, with on-site three days per week and occasional in-person onboarding. You'll design, deploy, and improve practical AI-enabled solutions, from agents to automated workflows, partnering with teams to deliver measurable value.

Qualifications

• Bachelor’s degree in CS, AI, or related fields.
• 5+ years of professional software engineering experience, including ownership of production applications.
• 2+ years of hands-on experience building solutions using modern AI technologies, including large language models.
• Experience taking ambiguous business problems into practical technical solutions.
• Hands-on experience with prompt design, retrieval architectures, AI application testing, and model/system evaluation.
• Experience building AI agents, multi-agent systems, tool-using agents, RAG solutions, or complex agentic workflows.
• Experience integrating APIs, cloud services, enterprise applications, and data sources.
• Strong proficiency in Python or another modern language used for AI development.
• Experience with data engineering, analytics, BI, MLOps/LLMOps, observability, or cloud deployment.
• Experience with source control, testing, deployment, monitoring, and modern software delivery practices.
• Excellent communication skills with the ability to work directly with both technical and nontechnical stakeholders and explain complex technical decisions in business terms.

Responsibilities

• Partner with teams to understand workflows and identify AI opportunities.
• Take requirements from concept to production-ready AI applications and automations.
• Build AI agents, copilots, and workflow automations.
• Develop applications using LLMs, RAG, and enterprise knowledge systems.
• Connect AI solutions with ERP, CRM, and analytics platforms.
• Reengineer processes to improve speed, accuracy, and productivity.
• Establish testing/evaluation approaches for accuracy and security.
• Collaborate with IS, data owners, and security for governance.

Skills

Python

LLMs

APIs

RAG

MLOps

Prompt design

Stakeholder comms

Education

Bachelor's degree in CS, AI, or related fields

Tools

Azure

Power Platform

Dataverse

Dynamics 365 Business Central

Job description

Fieldpiece, a global leader in HVACR tools, seeks a Senior AI Engineer in Orange, CA with a move to Tustin in 2028. The role blends hands-on AI development with business-process transformation across departments, leveraging Microsoft ecosystem tools.

Expect a hybrid schedule, with on-site three days per week and occasional in-person onboarding. You'll design, deploy, and improve practical AI-enabled solutions, from agents to automated workflows, partnering with teams to deliver measurable value.