AI Engineer

About the role

Textron Specialized Vehicles Inc. is a leading global manufacturer of golf cars, utility and personal transportation vehicles, professional turf-care equipment, and ground support equipment. Its vehicles are found in environments ranging from golf courses to factories, airports to planned communities, and theme parks to hunting preserves.

Responsibilities

• Design, develop, evaluate, and deploy AI-powered applications, intelligent agents, and agent workflows that support PACE Advanced Concepts innovation initiatives.
• Build reliable integrations between AI systems, enterprise data sources, APIs, cloud services, and third-party platforms to enable practical business and product use cases.
• Configure, test, and assess AI models, agents, orchestration patterns, and Microsoft Foundry capabilities to determine fit, reliability, effectiveness, and business value.
• Create rapid prototypes, proof-of-concepts, and demo-ready solutions that translate early ideas into working AI-enabled applications or product experiences.
• Develop reusable frameworks, components, documentation, and repository structures that allow successful prototypes to be understood, maintained, and matured over time.
• Support emerging product concepts such as Virtual Caddie, golf strategy tools, conversational experiences, speech-enabled workflows, and future AI-powered golf technology capabilities.
• Apply software engineering discipline to maintain code quality, source control, cloud development environments, technical documentation, testing practices, and scalable solution patterns.
• Collaborate with business stakeholders, engineers, product teams, leadership, and technology partners to define requirements, communicate tradeoffs, and iterate quickly based on feedback.
• Monitor emerging AI technologies, models, platforms, and multimodal capabilities, and recommend practical opportunities to advance PACE Advanced Concepts objectives.

Requirements

• Bachelor's degree in Computer Science, Software Engineering, Artificial Intelligence, Machine Learning, Data Science, Engineering, Information Systems, or a related technical field.
• 5 years of experience in software engineering, AI engineering, machine learning engineering, cloud application development, or related technical work.
• Experience independently designing, developing, deploying, and supporting AI-enabled applications in enterprise or product development environments preferred.
• Proficiency in at least one modern programming language.
• Experience developing software applications, integrating REST APIs, utilizing source control and collaboration platforms such as Git, GitHub, or Azure DevOps, and deploying applications within cloud-based environments.
• Experience designing, testing, debugging, and maintaining production-quality software solutions.

Skills

• Strong software engineering and problem-solving skills with the ability to translate ambiguous business or product concepts into practical technical solutions.
• Demonstrated ability to communicate technical concepts, risks, and recommendations to technical and non-technical stakeholders.
• Experience working within security-conscious and governed environments, including disciplined testing, deployment, documentation, and maintenance practices.
• Ability to balance rapid innovation and prototyping with solution scalability, maintainability, and long-term support requirements.
• Interest in golf technology, player experience, course operations, connected products, or emerging technology innovation is preferred.

Preferred Qualifications

• Experience with Python is strongly preferred.
• Experience developing applications using technologies such as C#, JavaScript, and TypeScript preferred.
• Experience with Azure AI Services, Azure OpenAI, Microsoft Foundry, large language models (LLMs), retrieval augmented generation (RAG), intelligent agents, workflow orchestration, and conversational or multimodal AI technologies preferred.

Location: Augusta, Georgia, United States | Full-time | First Shift