Senior AI Engineer — Enterprise AI & Innovation

Prologis; Los Angeles (CA); On-site; USD 125,000 - 186,000; Full time

Job summary

Prologis is seeking a Senior AI Applied Engineer based in San Francisco, CA, with 8+ years in software engineering and deep hands-on AI experience. You will drive rapid experimentation, design pilots with measurable outcomes, and evolve enterprise AI patterns across the AWS stack.

You will collaborate with the Central AI team to transition successful experiments into scalable architectures. You will lead efforts in retrieval-augmented generation, text-to-SQL, and LLM evaluations, while

Qualifications

• 8+ years of software engineering experience or equivalent.
• Expert Python skills (clean architecture, testing, packaging, performance and reliability).
• Strong AWS architecture and development experience (security/IAM, networking, serverless and/or containers, monitoring/logging, cost controls).
• Strong data foundations: SQL, data modeling, APIs/integration patterns; familiarity with RAG and text-to-SQL patterns.
• Demonstrated rigor in experimentation: hypothesis-driven approach, evaluation plans, metrics, timeboxing.

Responsibilities

• Drive AI innovation and rapid experimentation to advance Prologis capabilities (agentic workflows, reasoning approaches, evaluation methods, and emerging techniques).
• Design and execute timeboxed pilots with clear hypotheses, success metrics, and kill/scale decision points.
• Evolve enterprise AI patterns and standards (retrieval-augmented generation, text-to-SQL, evaluation/observability, guardrails).
• Build reference implementations and handoff docs so experiments transition into scalable architectures with Central AI team.
• Develop within AWS using secure, observable, cost-aware architectures and strong software engineering practices.
• Communicate results through demos and concise readouts linking technical outcomes to business value.
• Support priority project work to de-risk and accelerate with clear entry/exit criteria.
• Synthesize external research, OSS trends, and vendor capabilities into actionable recommendations.

Job description

Prologis is seeking a Senior AI Applied Engineer based in San Francisco, CA, with 8+ years in software engineering and deep hands-on AI experience. You will drive rapid experimentation, design pilots with measurable outcomes, and evolve enterprise AI patterns across the AWS stack.

You will collaborate with the Central AI team to transition successful experiments into scalable architectures. You will lead efforts in retrieval-augmented generation, text-to-SQL, and LLM evaluations, while