AI Solutions Engineer

About the role

This role is for an AI Solutions Engineer at Atkore, a leading provider of electrical, safety, and infrastructure solutions. The AI Solutions Engineer will support the newly established AI team, working with Enterprise Architecture, Data Services, and Automation (RPA/AI) to deliver secure, resilient integration and automation.

Responsibilities

• Build the technical interfaces, agent runtimes, and enterprise integrations that allow AI solutions to interact with Atkore's systems, data, and business processes.
• Work closely with AI Infrastructure, Enterprise Architecture, Data Services, and business partners to translate AI use cases into scalable, reliable, and observable technical solutions.
• Design, build, and maintain AI agent runtime environments supporting internal AI tools and solutions.
• Develop and manage connectors and integrations with enterprise platforms such as ERP, MES, CRM, databases, and file systems.
• Standardize and expose data and process access through well-defined REST, GraphQL, or asynchronous APIs.
• Implement observability, logging, and error-handling frameworks to monitor AI agent behavior and performance.
• Partner closely with business analysts, product owners, and application teams to translate AI use cases into production-ready integrations.
• Contribute to shared metadata standards, interface contracts, and integration patterns to enable safe and reusable AI capabilities.
• Support secure and scalable AI adoption by aligning with cyber security, data governance, and infrastructure standards.
• Stay current on emerging AI agent architectures, integration frameworks, and enterprise AI best practices.
• Work closely with Data Engineering, Application Integration, and other IT teams to enable AI use cases across Atkore operations.

Requirements

• BS / BA in Computer Science, Business or related field of study.
• At least 5 years of experience in backend software development or enterprise systems integration.
• Proficiency in Python, RESTful API design, and data serialization formats such as JSON and YAML.
• Experience working with enterprise data platforms, message queues, or service buses.
• Working knowledge of AI and agent-based architectures, including LLM APIs (e.g. MCP, A2A, etc.), embeddings, and retrieval-augmented generation (RAG) concepts.
• Hands-on experience with public cloud platforms (Azure preferred).
• Familiarity with data platforms and analytics ecosystems supporting structured and unstructured enterprise data.
• Familiarity with Software Development Life Cycle and Agile delivery processes.
• Strong analytical, problem-solving, and collaboration skills.
• Ability to communicate effectively with both technical and non-technical stakeholders.
• Experience integrating with legacy systems, manufacturing, or operational technology (OT) environments preferred.

Qualifications

• Must embrace and foster an environment that supports our core values of Accountability, Teamwork, Integrity, Respect, Excellence.

Skills

• Technical skills in Python, RESTful API design, and data serialization formats such as JSON and YAML.
• Experience with AI and agent-based architectures, including LLM APIs (e.g. MCP, A2A, etc.), embeddings, and retrieval-augmented generation (RAG) concepts.
• Experience with public cloud platforms (Azure preferred).
• Familiarity with data platforms and analytics ecosystems supporting structured and unstructured enterprise data.
• Experience with Software Development Life Cycle and Agile delivery processes.
• Experience integrating with legacy systems, manufacturing, or operational technology (OT) environments.

Benefits

Atkore offers a comprehensive benefits package including medical, vision, and dental insurance, life insurance, short-term and long-term disability insurance, a 401(k), paid time off, paid holidays, and more. Benefits are subject to vesting and eligibility requirements.