Lead AI Engineer
Corning Incorporated1 day ago
Monterrey, MexicoStaff+
Responsibilities
- Lead the design, development, implementation, and support of enterprise AI-enabled applications, tools, agents, automations, and integrations.
- Define technical direction, architecture, standards, reusable patterns, and implementation guidance for scalable AI solutions.
- Guide AI Engineers and Senior AI Engineers across multiple initiatives and mentor engineers to improve engineering practices.
- Partner with business and technical stakeholders to translate business needs into practical AI solutions.
- Support Python-based applications, APIs, JSON integrations, model-connected workflows, and LLM-enabled solutions.
- Lead or support chatbot, RAG, conversational AI, agentic AI, and AI assistant integration initiatives.
- Evaluate tradeoffs involving scalability, performance, latency, cost, quality, supportability, and risk.
- Apply Agile methodology to organize work, manage priorities, and support technical delivery.
Requirements
- Bachelor’s degree in Computer Science, Software Engineering, Information Technology, Data Science, or a related technical discipline.
- 7+ years of relevant experience in software engineering, AI engineering, application development, platform engineering, automation, integration development, or related technical solution delivery.
- Experience leading technical work, guiding engineers, coordinating projects, or providing architecture and technical direction.
- Strong hands-on experience with Python or strong technical understanding of Python-based development.
- Experience with APIs, JSON payloads, integrations, application development, and service-based solutions.
- Experience with AI-enabled applications, LLM-based solutions, chatbots, RAG solutions, agents, automations, or model-connected workflows.
- Experience applying Agile methodology in technical delivery environments.
- Ability to create technical vision, architecture, and implementation direction for complex solutions.
- Strong communication skills and ability to collaborate with technical teams, business stakeholders, and leadership.
- Ability to mentor engineers and help improve engineering practices; advanced English communication skills.
- Preferred experience includes enterprise AI, GenAI, chatbot, RAG, AI assistant, MCP, agentic AI, Databricks, model-serving endpoints, managed AI services, prompt engineering, orchestration, AI workflow automation, cloud platforms, reusable architecture patterns, engineering governance, and technical or project leadership.
Benefits
- Opportunity to build and lead a growing AI engineering capability within Corning Optical Communications.
- Exposure to modern AI technologies, LLM applications, AI agents, chatbot/RAG solutions, automation, and enterprise integrations.
- Hybrid role based in Obispado, Monterrey, with most work expected to be remote and office presence as needed.
- Opportunity to define technical direction, architecture, and standards for scalable enterprise AI solutions.
- Ability to mentor engineers and influence AI adoption and scaling across the organization.
- Career growth in AI technical leadership, enterprise architecture, AI platform enablement, and digital transformation.
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