Senior AI Engineer (hybrid)
Johnson Controls International plc1 day ago
Baltimore, MD, USASenior
Base Salary
$120k - $155k/yr
Responsibilities
- Own the AI/ML architecture, technical strategy, model selection, data architecture, evaluation approach, deployment topology, and build-versus-buy recommendations.
- Translate business problems across sales, engineering, and plant operations into a prioritized AI portfolio with realistic value and feasibility assessments.
- Establish reproducible training and evaluation, model and prompt versioning, monitoring, drift detection, rollback, audit trails, and data governance standards.
- Build document and specification intelligence that extracts requirements from PDFs, drawings, spreadsheets, and technical documents into candidate configurations.
- Develop configuration, quoting, competitive crossover, pricing, discount, cost estimation, BOM anomaly detection, rule mining, and engineering change impact capabilities.
- Build manufacturing intelligence for labor and routing prediction, material shortage and schedule risk forecasting, test-data anomaly detection, and quality defect prediction.
- Develop retrieval-grounded assistants and agents that use configurator, PLM, and ERP APIs to support sales engineers, application engineers, and service technicians.
- Design human-in-the-loop workflows with confidence thresholds, graceful abstention, traceability, and safe deployment across on-premise, edge, and cloud environments.
- Assess and improve data foundations across CPQ, PLM, ERP, and MES, including master data, part number governance, labor reporting, pipelines, feature engineering, and datasets.
- Mentor software and data engineers, participate in design reviews, and partner with the Program Manager on technical feasibility and delivery.
Requirements
- Bachelor's degree in Computer Science, Engineering, Applied Mathematics, Statistics, or a related field.
- At least 5 years of experience in software or data engineering and at least 5 years building machine learning or AI systems that reached production and real users.
- Demonstrated long-term ownership of a production AI/ML system, including diagnosing post-launch failures and improving the system.
- Strong Python and SQL skills.
- Depth in classical and tabular machine learning, gradient boosting, scikit-learn, deep learning frameworks, and LLM application patterns including retrieval, structured extraction, tool use, and evaluation.
- Experience deploying and operating models in production, including containerization, CI/CD, cloud ML platforms, monitoring, and cost management.
- Experience with enterprise data such as ERP and PLM schemas, MES and historian data, and semi-structured documents.
- Preferred experience includes manufacturing, industrial, engineer-to-order, HVAC, capital equipment, or building-product environments.
- Preferred familiarity with BOM structures, variant and option modeling, routings, standard times, and engineering change processes.
- Preferred experience includes document AI, information extraction, optimization and operations research, industrial computer vision, edge or on-premise inference in OT environments, and building an AI function as an early senior hire.
Benefits
- Competitive benefits package.
- Competitive bonus plan based on individual, group, and corporate performance.
- Hybrid role based in York, Pennsylvania, with candidates expected to live within commuting distance or relocate; relocation assistance is available.
- A fully remote work arrangement may be considered for the right candidate.
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About Johnson Controls International plc
Johnson Controls International plc builds and services building automation, HVAC (York), fire detection/suppression, security, and industrial refrigeration systems for commercial, institutional, and industrial facilities. The NYSE-listed company, headquartered in Cork, Ireland, traces its roots to 1885 and expanded via a 2016 merger with Tyco. It sells equipment, software, and lifecycle services to sectors such as data centers, healthcare, education, and advanced manufacturing, with a global installed base and service footprint.