Senior AI Solutions Engineer - Production-Ready, Hybrid

Donaldson Company; BLOOMINGTON, Northern (MN, KY); Hybrid; USD 112,000 - 140,000; Full time

Job summary

Donaldson Company seeks a Principal AI Solutions Engineer to lead AI initiatives across its global manufacturing footprint. You will take ideas from prototype to production, set engineering standards, and ensure scalable, observable AI systems integrated with enterprise data and ERP/CRM platforms.

The role requires 6+ years in software engineering with AI, plus hands-on experience with agent frameworks and production deployments. Hybrid work at Bloomington, MN, is supported.

Qualifications

• Bachelor's degree in Computer Science, Engineering, Data Science, or a related field and 6+ years of professional software engineering experience OR a high school diploma and 10+ years of professional software engineering experience.
• 3+ years building and deploying AI/ML or applied AI solutions in production environments.
• Professional experience developing in Python with modern AI and agent frameworks such as Microsoft Agent Framework, LangChain, LangGraph, or equivalent.
• Professional experience building and deploying agentic AI systems, including multi-agent architectures and tool-calling integrations.

Responsibilities

• Serve as the technical authority in the AI Center of Excellence for how AI solutions are designed and built, evaluating new models, frameworks, and tools and setting the direction the enterprise builds to.
• Partner with business stakeholders and AI leads embedded across functions to identify high-value opportunities, redesigning existing processes with AI as a foundational element rather than a bolt-on.
• Rapidly build and demonstrate working prototypes using large language models, agentic frameworks, and generative AI tools to validate ideas before full investment.
• Lead the end-to-end delivery of AI solutions from prototype through production, ensuring scalability, reliability, observability, and maintainability.
• Design and implement agentic AI systems, including multi-agent orchestration, retrieval-augmented generation pipelines, tool-calling integrations, and context engineering strategies.
• Define the reference architecture and engineering standards that both centrally built and business-built AI solutions are held to, covering prompt engineering, evaluation, monitoring, cost controls, and responsible AI guardrails.
• Take on problems where the constraint is process and data maturity rather than model access, spanning supplier and customer communications, master data quality, and operational planning across a global manufacturing network.
• Integrate AI solutions with enterprise data systems, APIs, and platforms such as cloud data services, collaboration platforms, and ERP and CRM systems to deliver measurable business outcomes.
• Multiply impact through a federated delivery model, coaching business and IT teams who build their own AI solutions so their work meets enterprise standards for governance, security, and quality.
• Mentor and upskill a central team of AI developers and program managers, along with colleagues across the business, fostering an AI-ready culture and working with IT, data, security, and compliance teams to meet enterprise standards.

Skills

Python development

AI/ML in production

Agent frameworks

Prompt engineering

Federated delivery

Education

Bachelor's degree in CS/Engineering/Data Science

High school diploma + 10+ years experience

Tools

Microsoft Agent Framework

LangChain

LangGraph

Azure OpenAI Service

Snowflake Cortex AI

Job description

Donaldson Company seeks a Principal AI Solutions Engineer to lead AI initiatives across its global manufacturing footprint. You will take ideas from prototype to production, set engineering standards, and ensure scalable, observable AI systems integrated with enterprise data and ERP/CRM platforms.

The role requires 6+ years in software engineering with AI, plus hands-on experience with agent frameworks and production deployments. Hybrid work at Bloomington, MN, is supported.