Senior AI Engineer: Production LLM & RAG (Hybrid)

Ford; Dearborn (MI); Hybrid; USD 100,000 - 193,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Medical coverage

Dental coverage

Vision coverage

Paid time off

Family care days

Tuition assistance

Vehicle discount

Paid holidays

Job summary

Ford Motor Company is seeking a Senior AI Engineer within Enterprise Technology to design, build, and operate production-grade AI solutions for forecasting, planning, and scheduling. You will create retrieval-augmented generation apps and trusted agents with human oversight in production environments.

You’ll work with Product and Software Engineering teams, implement CI/CD, Python services, and monitoring. The role requires 5+ years in software/ML, strong Python/SQL, and experience with

Qualifications

• 5+ years in software engineering, ML engineering, or applied AI, including hands-on Python, SQL, and building or deploying LLM/agent-based apps.
• Experience with prompt engineering, fine-tuning, RAG, or tools/frameworks.
• Experience developing maintainable production services/APIs, with CI/CD, containerization, and testing.
• Ability to evaluate AI/ML systems with quantitative metrics and human review.
• Ability to work with software teams and business users to take AI solutions to production.

Responsibilities

• AI Application Development: Design and build production-grade LLM apps, RAG solutions, and tool-using AI agents to improve decision speed and transparency.
• Retrieval Pipelines: Build ingestion, embeddings, hybrid search, grounding, and citations.
• Engineering & Deployment: Develop Python services, APIs, reusable AI components; deploy with CI/CD, containers, logging.
• Evaluation & Monitoring: Create eval datasets and tests; monitor drift, failures, and cost.
• Responsible AI & Governance: Apply controls and decide when AI is warranted.
• Stakeholder Partnership: Collaborate with Product, Software Engineering, Data Science, and Data Engineering.
• User Engagement: Interact with planners and end users to ground AI solutions in real workflows.
• Continuous Improvement: Evaluate new AI tech for business value and cost.

Education

Bachelor’s degree in Computer Science, Computer Engineering, Data Science, or related field

Tools

LangChain

LangGraph

AutoGen

Semantic Kernel

Job description

Ford Motor Company is seeking a Senior AI Engineer within Enterprise Technology to design, build, and operate production-grade AI solutions for forecasting, planning, and scheduling. You will create retrieval-augmented generation apps and trusted agents with human oversight in production environments.

You’ll work with Product and Software Engineering teams, implement CI/CD, Python services, and monitoring. The role requires 5+ years in software/ML, strong Python/SQL, and experience with