Senior AI Engineer — Production ML & LLM Systems

ONEOK, Inc.; Northern (KY); Hybrid; USD 114,000 - 172,000; Full time

Job summary

ONEOK, a Fortune 500 midstream leader, seeks a Data Science professional to design, deploy, and maintain cloud-native AI/ML solutions. You will work with business partners in a fast-paced environment, leveraging Python, LLMs, and optimization to deliver value-driven analytics and automation.

You will build agent frameworks, tooling, and user interfaces, ensuring reliability, cost efficiency, and security as production-grade systems. Strong collaboration across teams is essential.

Qualifications

• Bachelor’s degree with at least 5 years of software engineering experience shipping AI/ML systems.
• Extensive experience with LLM-based systems, agent frameworks, tool use and evaluation.
• Strong Python engineering, APIs/SDKs design, and production deployment experience.
• Experience monitoring, incident response, and cost management for production systems.

Responsibilities

• Develop, deploy, and maintain AI systems in production environments.
• Advance numerical optimization, forecasting, computer vision, ML and anomaly detection.
• Develop cloud-based infrastructure to host and run AI/ML models.
• Design, tune, and evaluate tools, function calls, and prompt templates.
• Create custom user interfaces for AI workflows based on user requirements.
• Ensure security and IT partnership in production deployments.

Skills

Python

R

SQL

Spark

Databricks

Snowflake

LLMs

Agent frameworks

Prompt engineering

Retrieval

CI/CD

Education

Bachelor's degree

Tools

APIs

SDKs

Terraform

AWS

Azure

Job description

ONEOK, a Fortune 500 midstream leader, seeks a Data Science professional to design, deploy, and maintain cloud-native AI/ML solutions. You will work with business partners in a fast-paced environment, leveraging Python, LLMs, and optimization to deliver value-driven analytics and automation.

You will build agent frameworks, tooling, and user interfaces, ensuring reliability, cost efficiency, and security as production-grade systems. Strong collaboration across teams is essential.