Senior AI Solutions Engineer

themichaeljfoxfoundation; United States; Hybrid; USD 150,000 - 170,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Medical, dental, and vision coverage

Retirement contributions

Discretionary annual bonus

Job summary

The Michael J. Fox Foundation is seeking hands-on engineers to build and support AI-enabled applications, integrations, and automated workflows that address practical organizational needs.

You’ll work with business and technical partners to shape use cases into secure, maintainable solutions and move successful prototypes into production under senior technical guidance. Responsibilities include developing AI apps with capabilities like summarization, extraction, and knowledge retrieval;

Qualifications

• Experience building apps, integrations, or workflows with generative AI tools.
• Proficiency in at least one programming or scripting language.
• Ability to translate business needs into working solutions.
• Experience developing prompts and structured outputs; assess AI solutions for security and reliability.

Responsibilities

• Identify AI opportunities and translate needs into requirements.
• Develop, test, deploy, and maintain AI apps and automated workflows.
• Connect AI services to systems via code and APIs.
• Evaluate quality, cost, and reliability; add validation and access controls.
• Monitor solutions and explain AI risks to varied audiences.
• Create reusable components for responsible, efficient delivery.

Skills

Generative AI

APIs & Webhooks

Programming languages

Low-code platforms

Tools

APIs

PowerShell

Low-code platforms

Job description

Role overview

Build and support AI-enabled applications, integrations, and workflows that address practical organizational needs. You’ll work hands-on with business and technical partners, shaping use cases into secure, maintainable solutions and moving successful prototypes into production, with senior technical guidance for complex designs.

Responsibilities

• Identify useful AI opportunities with stakeholders and turn business needs into functional requirements and solution designs.
• Develop, test, document, deploy, and maintain AI applications and automated workflows, including capabilities such as summarization, extraction, classification, and knowledge retrieval.
• Connect AI services to organizational systems and data through code, APIs, scripts, connectors, and low-code tools.
• Evaluate solution quality, cost, and suitability; improve reliability with validation, grounding, access controls, exception handling, and human review.
• Monitor deployed solutions, refine them as needs and technology change, and explain AI’s limits, risks, and tradeoffs to varied audiences.
• Create reusable components and practices that support responsible, efficient delivery.

Requirements

• Experience building applications, integrations, or automated workflows using generative AI tools, APIs, frameworks, or platforms.
• Proficiency in at least one programming or scripting language, such as JavaScript, Python, C#, or PowerShell, and familiarity with APIs, webhooks, data formats, or low-code platforms.
• Ability to translate business needs into working solutions and troubleshoot across applications, data, integrations, and AI services.
• Experience developing prompts and structured outputs, and assessing AI solutions for accuracy, reliability, security, and suitability.
• Working knowledge of application security, credential management, testing, logging, error handling, deployment, and source control.
• Sound judgment balancing business value, complexity, cost, risk, and maintainability, with clear communication for technical and non-technical audiences.

Nice to have

Experience with document processing, retrieval-augmented generation, enterprise knowledge search, agent workflows, or AI safeguards. Familiarity with Microsoft enterprise tools and integrating business systems is also preferred.

Benefits and work setup

The role offers a flexible work environment, medical, dental, and vision coverage, retirement contributions, paid leave, life and disability insurance, and a discretionary annual bonus. The listed salary range is $150,000-170,000 USD.