Senior AI Scientist — GenAI, LLMs, Multi-Agent Systems

Zebra; Austin, Northern (TX, KY); Hybrid; USD 139,000 - 208,000; Full time

Job summary

Zebra is seeking an Advanced AI Scientist in Austin to lead the delivery of AI/GenAI solutions for strategic customers. You will collaborate with Product, Engineering, and cross-functional teams to translate business challenges into production-ready systems.

The role emphasizes model selection, prompt engineering, evaluation, observability, security, and cost efficiency, with opportunities to influence product direction and scale across industries.

Qualifications

• Advanced degree in a quantitative field required (Masters/PhD).
• 8+ years in data science, ML, or software engineering.
• Experience with Generative AI, LLMs, RAG, multimodal AI, and AI app development.

Responsibilities

• Develop and deliver AI/GenAI solutions for strategic customers.
• Build agentic applications with multi-agent orchestration, planning, and tooling.
• Engineer reliable AI systems with evaluation, guardrails, and observability.
• Develop production-grade software integrating AI with enterprise apps and data.

Skills

Generative AI

LLMs

Agentic AI

Multi-agent systems

Python

Java

Go

TypeScript

Education

Master’s or Ph.D in mathematics, statistics, computer science, computer engineering, operations research, or related field

Tools

Python

Java

Go

TypeScript

Job description

Zebra is seeking an Advanced AI Scientist in Austin to lead the delivery of AI/GenAI solutions for strategic customers. You will collaborate with Product, Engineering, and cross-functional teams to translate business challenges into production-ready systems.

The role emphasizes model selection, prompt engineering, evaluation, observability, security, and cost efficiency, with opportunities to influence product direction and scale across industries.