AI Engineer II
McCarthy Holdings, Inc. · Phoenix, AZ · Yesterday
EngineeringFull-time
Responsibilities
- Design, develop, test, and maintain AI-powered applications, services, and workflows that support enterprise business processes.
- Build and support generative AI and agentic solutions using modern AI engineering practices and frameworks.
- Develop and maintain data pipelines, integrations, and reusable data products that enable AI and analytics use cases.
- Contribute to the design and evolution of data models and ontologies that support operational and analytical workflows.
- Develop and optimize prompts, retrieval strategies, and agent workflows to improve solution effectiveness, reliability, and user experience.
- Leverage AI-assisted development tools and coding copilots to accelerate delivery while maintaining high standards for code quality, testing, security, and maintainability.
- Participate in MLOps and PromptOps processes, including deployment, monitoring, evaluation, versioning, and continuous improvement of AI systems.
- Collaborate with business and technical stakeholders to translate business requirements into practical technical solutions.
- Support production AI solutions through troubleshooting, performance tuning, monitoring, and ongoing enhancement activities.
- Contribute to documentation, reusable patterns, and engineering best practices that improve team effectiveness and solution consistency.
- Follow established AI governance, security, and Responsible AI standards throughout the solution lifecycle.
Qualifications
- Minimum 3 years of experience in software engineering, AI engineering, machine learning, data engineering, or a related technical discipline.
- Bachelor’s degree in Computer Science, Engineering, Data Science, Information Systems, or a related field (or equivalent practical experience).
- Experience building and deploying AI-enabled applications or machine learning solutions in production environments.
- Strong programming skills in Python and experience with modern software engineering practices.
- Data pipelines, ETL/ELT processes, and API-based integrations.
- SQL and relational data modeling.
- Cloud platforms such as Azure, AWS, or GCP.
- Containerized and serverless application deployment patterns.
- Building solutions on enterprise AI and data platforms such as Palantir Foundry, Azure AI, AWS, GCP, or Dataiku.
- Generative AI platforms and frameworks such as OpenAI, Anthropic, LangChain, LlamaIndex, Hugging Face, or similar technologies.
- Prompt engineering, evaluation methodologies, and retrieval-augmented generation (RAG) patterns.
- Experience with Palantir Foundry is strongly preferred, including familiarity with:
- Ontology-driven application development
- AIP and AI-enabled workflows
- Data products and pipeline development
- Workshop applications and operational workflows
- Code Repositories and software delivery within Foundry environments
- Understanding of responsible AI concepts, including transparency, human oversight, security, and governance practices.