Staff AI Engineer

Staff AI Engineer

Genesis10 is currently seeking a Staff AI Engineer for a permanent position with a leading retail company located in Cedar Park, TX. This is a direct hire opportunity.

The Staff AI Engineer serves as a senior technical expert responsible for designing, building, and governing AI solutions. This role leads the development of practical, secure, and scalable AI capabilities across predictive analytics, AI assistants, autonomous agents, and enterprise context integration. Working in partnership with business, security, architecture, data, and engineering teams, this position establishes reusable patterns, standards, and safeguards that enable AI to improve decision quality, strengthen operational efficiency, and enhance associate and customer experiences.

Responsibilities:

• Own the technical roadmap for AI capabilities, prioritize use cases with business partners, and sequence delivery based on value, complexity, risk, and readiness
• Design secure, scalable AI solutions including assistants, agents, predictive models, retrieval-based systems, and enterprise integrations
• Partner with business teams across retail, digital commerce, supply chain, manufacturing, merchandising, and support functions to translate business opportunities into practical AI solutions
• Establish governed patterns for giving AI solutions access to enterprise data, systems, tools, and workflows
• Define standards for evaluation, monitoring, access control, cost management, security, and responsible AI practices
• Mentor engineers, document reusable patterns, establish standards, and raise the organization's AI engineering capability

Requirements:

• Bachelor's Degree in Computer Science, Data Science, Information Technology, Engineering or a related field; or equivalent combination of education and/or experience
• 5 years of experience in software engineering, machine learning engineering, data engineering, AI systems development, or a related technical discipline, including experience delivering production AI solutions
• Proven experience designing, building, and operating production AI applications, including predictive models, generative AI solutions, AI assistants, agent-based systems, or intelligent automation capabilities
• Strong Python and SQL skills with a solid foundation in data engineering, data transformation, and AI/ML data preparation
• Hands-on experience building, deploying, and supporting AI or machine learning solutions in a cloud environment
• Experience integrating AI solutions with enterprise applications, business processes, data platforms, and operational workflows, including access scoping, and authentication
• Experience designing and deploying retrieval-augmented generation (RAG), semantic search, or similar knowledge retrieval solutions in production environments
• Experience implementing AI governance, security, observability, evaluation, and monitoring practices in production environments
• Proven ability to lead technical direction across multiple initiatives, establish engineering standards, and communicate complex technical concepts effectively to both technical and business stakeholders
• Demonstrated ability to identify, prioritize, and deliver AI solutions that create measurable business value through improved decision-making, productivity, customer experience, or operational effectiveness

Desired skills:

• Professional certifications in cloud, AI, data, or machine learning disciplines, such as AWS Certified Machine Learning Specialty or similar credentials
• Experience designing MCP servers, agent integration frameworks, tool-calling architectures, API gateways, or similar approaches for connecting AI systems to enterprise applications
• Experience with vector databases and semantic retrieval platforms such as Pinecone, pgvector, Weaviate, OpenSearch, or comparable technologies
• Hands-on experience with AI observability and evaluation platforms such as LangSmith, Arize, Langfuse, MLflow, or similar tools
• Hands-on experience with AWS building, deploying, and supporting AI or machine learning solutions
• Experience with enterprise analytics platforms such as Incorta and exposing enterprise data for AI, machine learning, or advanced analytics use cases
• Experience supporting retail, manufacturing, supply chain, merchandising, e-commerce, customer service, or other consumer-focused business functions

Pay range: $150,000 - $215,000 per year

If you have the described qualifications and are interested in this exciting opportunity, please apply!

Ranked a Top Staffing Firm in the U.S. by Staffing Industry Analysts for six consecutive years, Genesis10 puts thousands of consultants and employees to work across the United States every year in contract, contract-for-hire, and permanent placement roles. With more than 300 active clients, Genesis10 provides access to many of the Fortune 100 firms and a variety of mid-market organizations across the full spectrum of industry verticals.

For contract roles, Genesis10 offers the benefits listed below. If this is a perm-placement opportunity, our recruiter can talk you through the unique benefits offered for that particular client. Benefits of Working with Genesis10:

• Access to hundreds of clients, most who have been working with Genesis10 for 5-20+ years.
• The opportunity to have a career-home in Genesis10; many of our consultants have been working exclusively with Genesis10 for years.
• Access to an experienced, caring recruiting team (more than 7 years of experience, on average.)
• Behavioral Health Platform
• Medical, Dental, Vision
• Health Savings Account
• Voluntary Hospital Indemnity (Critical Illness & Accident)
• Voluntary Term Life Insurance
• 401K
• Sick Pay (for applicable states/municipalities)
• Commuter Benefits (Dallas, NYC, SF, and Illinois)

For multiple years running, Genesis10 has been recognized as a Top Staffing Firm in the U.S., as a Best Company for Work-Life Balance, as a Best Company for Career Growth, for Diversity, and for Leadership, amongst others. To learn more and to view all our available career opportunities, please visit us at our website.

Genesis10 is an Equal Opportunity Employer. Candidates will receive consideration without regard to their race, color, religion, sex, sexual orientation, gender identity, national origin, disability, or status as a protected veteran.