Senior GenAI & Agentic AI Scientist

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

Benefits offered by this job

Hybrid work

Flexible hours

Summer Flex Fridays

Focus Fridays

Well-being day

Healthcare

Job summary

Zebra Technologies is seeking an Advanced AI Scientist to deliver AI/GenAI solutions for strategic customers. You will work with customers, Product, and Engineering to translate complex business needs into production-ready AI systems, leveraging LLMs, agentic patterns, and multi-agent orchestration.

You will design and implement robust AI pipelines, evaluate models, and ensure observability, security, and cost efficiency across deployments.

Qualifications

• Master’s or Ph.D in mathematics, statistics, computer science, computer engineering, operations research, or related field.
• Minimum 8+ years' experience in data science, machine learning, or software engineering required.

Responsibilities

• Develop and deliver AI/GenAI solutions using LLMs, foundation models, RAG, multimodal AI, and emerging agentic technologies to solve complex customer problems.
• Build advanced agentic applications using multi-agent orchestration, planning and execution, tool calling, MCP/A2A, agent memory and state, and adaptive execution patterns.
• Engineer reliable AI systems through model selection, prompt and context engineering, evaluation, benchmarking, guardrails, robust tool execution, and continuous improvement.
• Develop AI evaluation and observability capabilities to measure task completion, agent behavior, tool use, quality, reliability, latency, and cost.
• Develop production-grade software using Python, Java, Go, or TypeScript, integrating AI capabilities with enterprise applications, APIs, data, and customer workflows.
• Deploy, operate, troubleshoot, and optimize AI solutions for security, reliability, performance, scalability, cost efficiency, and user experience.
• Lead technical delivery for strategic customers, from problem discovery and rapid prototyping through production deployment, adoption, and continuous improvement.
• Collaborate with customers, Product, Engineering, and cross-functional teams to translate business needs into technical solutions, communicate tradeoffs, and influence product direction.
• Drive innovation by evaluating emerging AI technologies and translating customer learnings into reusable frameworks, tools, engineering practices, and product capabilities.

Skills

Generative AI

LLMs

Foundation models

RAG

Multimodal AI

Prompt engineering

Agentic AI

Multi-agent systems

Orchestration

Planning and execution

Tool calling

Agent memory/state

MCP/A2A

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 Technologies is seeking an Advanced AI Scientist to deliver AI/GenAI solutions for strategic customers. You will work with customers, Product, and Engineering to translate complex business needs into production-ready AI systems, leveraging LLMs, agentic patterns, and multi-agent orchestration.

You will design and implement robust AI pipelines, evaluate models, and ensure observability, security, and cost efficiency across deployments.