AI Engineer | Digital Products & AI
PA Consulting10 hours ago
Charlotte, NC, USASenior
Responsibilities
- Architect production AI solutions, including tool selection, memory and context management, guardrails, and human-in-the-loop controls.
- Build and deploy agentic-system components, retrieval pipelines, MCP services, integrations, and systems connecting AI capabilities to enterprise data and processes.
- Modernize platforms and applications around current business needs, rebuilding legacy functionality where necessary.
- Design security, access controls, identity management, deployment guardrails, and operational resilience into solutions.
- Break complex problems into deliverable components and help define scope, sequencing, and implementation approaches.
- Write code, review agent-generated outputs, and shape architecture, controls, and production acceptance criteria.
- Create reusable patterns, skills, tooling, platforms, and AI solutions for future engagements.
- Work directly with clients, Product Strategists, Data Engineers, and multidisciplinary teams from discovery through deployment and, on some engagements, ongoing operations.
Requirements
- Track record of designing, building, and delivering complex technology solutions in production environments.
- Experience building and operating production software, with strong software engineering skills ideally including Python and TypeScript.
- Client-facing technical delivery experience is expected at senior levels.
- Experience designing and delivering cloud-native systems on AWS, Azure, or GCP.
- Hands-on experience building AI applications and agent-based systems in production.
- Experience with orchestration frameworks such as LangChain, LangGraph, LlamaIndex, or similar technologies.
- Experience building retrieval-enabled systems with technologies such as pgvector, Elasticsearch, or OpenSearch.
- Experience integrating applications with enterprise systems, data platforms, APIs, identity providers, and MCP-enabled services.
- Strong technical judgment, communication skills, and ability to navigate ambiguity while balancing delivery speed, quality, security, and maintainability.
- Preferred experience in consulting, professional services, or as a technical founder.
- Preferred experience in healthcare and life sciences, manufacturing, energy and utilities, transportation, or consumer industries.
- Preferred experience building reusable platforms, tooling, or AI solutions in regulated environments.
Benefits
- Hybrid working with a minimum of two days per week in the office or on a client site, with some assignments requiring up to five client-site days per week.
- Group medical insurance, dental insurance, vision coverage, and long-term care plan.
- Health Savings Account with company match and Teladoc and informed Nurse Line resources.
- 401(k) Savings Plan with company profit-sharing contribution.
- Commuter and parking tax-savings benefit.
- 15 paid vacation days with the opportunity to buy five additional days, plus 10 paid holidays and 10 paid sick days.
- Company and voluntary income protection benefits.
- Gym and health incentive reimbursement, pet and legal insurance plans, and an Employee Assistance Plan.
- Annual performance-based bonus.
- Support for physical, emotional, social, and financial well-being, along with inclusion and equality initiatives.
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About PA Consulting
PA Consulting is a management and technology consultancy that designs and delivers strategy, digital systems, and physical products for public- and private-sector clients. It works across defense and security, government, health and life sciences, financial services, energy and utilities, consumer, and transport markets. Founded in 1943 and headquartered in London, it operates globally and is majority-owned by Jacobs.