AI Engineer / AI Analyst

AI Engineer/Analyst

The AI Engineer/Analyst is a dual discipline role operating across two integrated workstreams. On the engineering side, you will evaluate emerging AI tools, platforms, and agents, conduct structured technical assessments, build and integrate AI workflows and services into enterprise systems, and contribute to the MCP platform build including guardrails, permissions, and agent architectures. Working closely with Architecture, Security, DevOps, Legal, Privacy, and business stakeholders, you will ensure AI initiatives are technically sound, properly governed, and delivering measurable business value.

Essential Job Functions:

• Evaluates emerging AI tools, platforms and agents
• Coordinates the structured progression of AI initiatives through defined technical evaluation and approval stages, ensuring required documentation, testing artifacts, and governance reviews are completed and properly recorded
• Develops evaluation plans, overseeing user acceptance testing, compiling evidence packs for approvals and audits, and maintaining detailed registries of AI tools, use cases, and lifecycle records
• Monitors adoption metrics, cost and consumption trends, quality indicators, and post-release performance, escalating risks or anomalies
• Supports stakeholder alignment across technical, security, legal, and business teams to drive consistent and compliant AI adoption.
• Demonstrates strong cross-functional communication and collaboration skills, with the ability to adapt to a rapidly evolving AI landscape and a proactive commitment to continuous learning in enterprise AI governance.

Outcomes:

• Delivers to enterprise standards secure, scalable, and production-ready AI solutions alongside a transparent, well-managed governance process
• Create a centralized repository of AI knowledge and resources, including a structured catalogue of approved tools, platforms, and use cases that accelerates adoption and reduces duplication across divisions
• Contributes to building a trusted, reusable, and well-governed AI foundation that enables innovation at pace while maintaining the operational discipline and regulatory integrity required by LNW's enterprise governance framework.

Qualifications:

• 5+ years of combined experience across software engineering, AI/ML development, business analysis, governance, risk/compliance, or data/operations roles in enterprise environments.
• Hands-on software development experience in Python and/or TypeScript/Node.js, with proven ability to build backend services, APIs, and integrations with enterprise systems (authentication, authorization, logging, monitoring).
• Hands-on GenAI/LLM application experience including agents, tool/function calling, RAG architectures, embeddings, vector search, and prompt engineering.
• Hands-on experience with enterprise GenAI platforms and foundation models including ChatGPT/OpenAI, Claude/Anthropic, Microsoft Copilot, Google Gemini, and cloud AI services such as AWS Bedrock, Azure AI Foundry, or equivalent multi-model environments.
• Proven experience in Generative AI solution development and virtual agent orchestration, including agentic workflows, multi-agent systems, conversational AI design, and AI-assisted automation for enterprise processes.
• Demonstrated ability to turn ambiguous requests into clear requirements, acceptance criteria, and measurable success metrics for both technical deliverables and governance artifacts.
• Experience coordinating testing and UAT; comfort building structured evaluation artifacts (test plans, expected behaviours, defect triage, rubric-based LLM evaluation).
• Strong documentation discipline and attention to detail; ability to produce audit-ready evidence packs, risk scoring records, and executive-ready reporting.
• Working knowledge of governance and control concepts (data classification, privacy/security reviews, access controls, change control, third-party/vendor risk).
• Solid DevOps fundamentals: Git-based workflows, CI/CD, containerization (Docker), and cloud deployment patterns.
• Strong security mindset: secrets management, encryption, audit logging, secure API design; familiarity with LLM-specific threats and mitigations.
• Excellent stakeholder management: able to drive follow-through across Security, Legal, Architecture, Engineering, and business teams.

Preferred:

• Experience with LLM orchestration frameworks (LangChain/LangGraph, LlamaIndex, Semantic Kernel) and observability/evaluation tools (Azure, Promptfoo).
• Familiarity with Responsible AI and risk-management frameworks (e.g., NIST AI RMF, EU AI Act risk classification, model lifecycle controls).
• Experience supporting GenAI/LLM initiatives including output quality measurement, resiliency checks, and human-in-the-loop review processes.
• Exposure to cost governance/FinOps practices for usage-based AI platforms (token cost tracking, consumption attribution, budget alerts, optimization).
• Experience with API gateway patterns, MCP-style tool/connector architectures, and multi-tenant service design with throttling/rate limiting.
• Experience working with enterprise governance forums (AI Steering Committee, QBRs) and maintaining portfolio health dashboards.
• Comfort with KPI dashboards and analytics.

The targeted pay range for this role is $105,000-$120,000. The total compensation package for this position may also include applicable incentive compensation, such as an annual performance bonus. Actual compensation packages are based on several factors that may include, but are not limited to skill set, depth of experience, specific work geography, as well as internal equity and alignment with market data.

Work Conditions:

The physical demands and work environment characteristics described here are representative of those that must be met by an employee to successfully perform the essential functions of this job. While performing the duties of this job, the employee is regularly required to sit, stand, walk, bend, use hands, operate a computer, and have specific vision abilities to include close and distance vision, and ability to adjust focus working with computer and business equipment. Reasonable accommodations may be made to enable individuals with disabilities to perform the essential functions.

Light & Wonder and its affiliates (collectively, "L&W") are engaged in highly regulated gaming and lottery businesses. As a result, certain L&W employees may, among other things, be required to obtain a gaming or other license(s), undergo background investigations or security checks, or meet certain standards dictated by law, regulation, or contracts. In order to ensure L&W complies with its regulatory and contractual commitments, as a prerequisite to employment with L&W (to the extent permitted by law), you shall be asked to consent to L&W conducting a due diligence/background investigation on you.

This job description should not be interpreted as all-inclusive; it is intended to identify major responsibilities and requirements of the job. The employee in this position may be requested to perform other job-related tasks and responsibilities than those stated above.

Light & Wonder is an Equal Opportunity Employer and does not discriminate against applicants due to race, color, sex, age, national origin, religion, sexual orientation, gender identity, status as a veteran, and basis of disability or any other federal, state or local protected class.