AI Engineer

About the role

Innovative Captive Strategies (ICS) is leveraging artificial intelligence to transform work processes, support intelligent automation, and advance responsible AI adoption. The AI Engineer will partner with business and technology teams to identify opportunities, build impactful solutions, and help shape AI governance, measurement, and management.

Responsibilities

• Design, develop, and implement AI-enabled solutions that improve business processes, support intelligent automation, and advance enterprise technology objectives.
• Prototype, configure, test, and refine AI solutions, serving as a hands-on engineer throughout the solution lifecycle.
• Partner with business stakeholders and IT teams to identify opportunities, define requirements, and prioritize AI initiatives that deliver measurable value.
• Evaluate business and technical needs and translate them into secure, scalable, and sustainable AI solution designs.
• Develop and implement AI-powered capabilities, including document intelligence, AI-assisted workflows, retrieval-based solutions, and AI agents.
• Lead AI agent governance efforts, including lifecycle management, configuration, access controls, usage monitoring, and compliance with organizational standards.
• Establish and maintain AI adoption and usage reporting, including dashboards and metrics that measure business impact, value, and risk.
• Collaborate with developers, analysts, data teams, infrastructure teams, and security stakeholders to deliver effective and compliant AI solutions.
• Conduct testing, troubleshooting, and continuous improvement activities to ensure solution quality, performance, and reliability.
• Research, evaluate, and recommend emerging AI technologies, tools, and best practices to strengthen organizational capabilities and innovation.

Qualifications

• Must be able to be on-site in Waukee, IA
• Education: Bachelor’s degree in Computer Science, Information Systems, Data, Engineering, or a related field, or an equivalent combination of education, training, and experience.
• Experience: 5–7 years’ experience in business solutions, application development, or related technical capacity, including implementation, solution analysis and design, and solution delivery. Experience building or implementing AI-enabled solutions, experience with Agile/Scrum and rapid prototyping methodologies, and exposure to AI governance, agent management, or AI measurement and reporting preferred.
• Skills: Ability to partner with IT Business Partners and business stakeholders to translate business needs into clearly scoped, compliant, and value-driven AI-enabled solutions, even in ambiguous environments. Strong understanding of business processes, organizational functions, and core enterprise technology domains (application, data, integration, security, and network), with working knowledge of SDLC methodologies and solution development practices. Hands-on capability to design, build, test, refine, and troubleshoot AI-enabled solutions, including document intelligence, AI-assisted workflows, human-in-the-loop validation, retrieval-based approaches, intelligent workflow design, and AI agents.

Benefits

• Paid Parental Leave and supportive New Parent Benefits
• Company paid continuing Education & Tuition Reimbursement
• 401k Profit Sharing
• Paid Volunteer time off and employee matching gifts to charities
• Inclusion & Belonging Programs
• Discretionary bonus opportunity