AI Agent Engineer - Kentucky Truck Plant
Ford Motor15 days ago
Louisville, KY, USAMid Level
H1B sponsor
Base Salary
$65k - $166k/yr
Responsibilities
- Build agents that classify plant issues, plan investigations, call tools, and draft recommendations.
- Design multi-step and multi-agent workflows with prompts, tool definitions, retrieval logic, hand-offs, and stopping rules.
- Connect agents to production, quality, maintenance, and CoreMesh data; rank and filter evidence and display sources in outputs.
- Add confidence and missing-data handling so agents can hand off appropriately to people.
- Test agents against shared evaluation sets, analyze failures, compare approaches, and improve accuracy, cost, and response time.
- Work directly with Kentucky Truck Plant supervisors and engineers to understand problems and incorporate feedback and confirmed fixes.
Requirements
- Bachelor’s degree in Computer Science, Data Science, Engineering, Statistics, or a related field, or equivalent experience.
- At least 3 years of production experience in data science, machine learning engineering, or software engineering.
- Hands-on experience building with large language models, including prompting, retrieval-augmented generation, tool use, and agent frameworks.
- Strong Python and SQL skills.
- Experience designing experiments and evaluating model or system output.
- Preferred qualifications include LangGraph, Google ADK, Model Context Protocol, manufacturing or structured problem-solving experience, knowledge graphs or ontologies, Google Cloud Platform, and Vertex AI.
Benefits
- Immediate medical, dental, vision, and prescription drug coverage.
- Paid parental leave, new parent ramp-up programs, subsidized backup child care, family-building benefits, adoption and surrogacy reimbursement, and fertility treatment support.
- Vehicle discount programs for employees and family members and management leases.
- Tuition assistance and active employee resource groups.
- Paid time off for community service, vacation, sick/personal time, and paid holidays including the period between Christmas Eve and New Year’s Day.
- Hybrid work arrangement requiring onsite presence four or more days per week at Kentucky Truck Plant.
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About Ford Motor
Ford Motor Company designs, manufactures, and sells cars, trucks, SUVs, and commercial vehicles for consumers and businesses, and provides financing through Ford Credit. A public company headquartered in Dearborn, Michigan and listed on the NYSE, it operates globally under the Ford and Lincoln brands, including electric and connected vehicles such as the F‑150 Lightning and Mustang Mach‑E. Founded in 1903, it also offers software-driven fleet, mobility, and aftersales services.