Lead AI Engineer
Daimler Truck North America1 day ago
Portland, OR, USAStaff+
Base Salary
$117k - $150k/yr
Responsibilities
- Design, build, test, deploy, and maintain AI-enabled applications in Palantir Foundry and associated AI platforms.
- Lead cross-functional AI Engineers, Data Engineers, business stakeholders, and adoption efforts.
- Develop solutions using LLMs, AI agents, machine learning, predictive analytics, and workflow automation.
- Define ontologies, object models, schemas, data architectures, pipelines, APIs, integrations, and connectivity frameworks.
- Design and support infrastructure for AI and data applications while improving scalability, performance, and deployment practices.
- Own operational support, monitoring, incident escalation, root-cause troubleshooting, and continuous improvement for deployed applications.
- Provide technical assessments, effort estimates, implementation recommendations, governance input, and architectural guidance.
- Deliver training, demonstrations, workshops, mentoring, and knowledge-sharing to promote AI literacy and adoption.
Requirements
- Bachelor’s degree in Computer Science, Software Engineering, Data Science, Mathematics, Engineering, Physics, Supply Chain, or a related field.
- At least 1 year of group leader, project lead, or mentoring experience.
- At least 2 years of experience in AI Engineering, Data Engineering, Software Development, Supply Chain Management, Procurement, Logistics, or Advanced Analytics.
- Strong programming skills in Python, Java, C++, TypeScript/JavaScript, or SQL.
- Experience building and deploying AI, machine learning, or LLM-based solutions.
- Understanding of prompt engineering, Retrieval Augmented Generation, AI agents, model evaluation, machine learning fundamentals, data pipelines, API development, and cloud and platform architectures.
- Ability to translate business needs into technical solutions and collaborate with technical and non-technical stakeholders.
- Experience applying Lean methodologies and continuous improvement principles.
- Advanced degree is preferred but not required.
- Experience with Palantir Foundry or similar enterprise data and AI platforms is preferred.
- Working knowledge of supply chain, material planning, logistics, or procurement is preferred.
Benefits
- Annual bonus program and 401(k) contributions, including company matching up to 6% and an additional non-elective contribution of 3–7% depending on age.
- Starting at four weeks of paid vacation, 13 or more calendar holidays, and eight weeks of paid parental leave.
- Comprehensive healthcare plans, wellness programs, employee assistance, short- and long-term disability plans, onsite fitness at some locations, tuition assistance, and volunteer paid time off.
- Hybrid schedule in Portland, Oregon: four days per week in-office and one day remote.
- Relocation assistance is not available.
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