AI Engineer
Southern Company22 hours ago
Birmingham, AL, USAStaff+
Responsibilities
- Develop and configure production-ready AI agents using models, tools, and enterprise data.
- Translate business and operational requirements into workflows covering data ingestion, inference, tool execution, and human-in-the-loop review.
- Implement responsible AI controls, validation steps, guardrails, and explainability mechanisms.
- Collaborate with architects and ML Ops on design, deployment, monitoring, and iteration.
- Optimize prompts, models, and agent interactions for accuracy, latency, cost efficiency, and reliability.
- Prototype AI capabilities and promote them into enterprise-grade deployments while following architectural and governance standards.
Requirements
- Experience building AI and machine learning applications in enterprise settings.
- Practical understanding of agentic AI concepts, including planners, tool-calling, memory, and multi-agent collaboration.
- Familiarity with enterprise data platforms and APIs handling structured, unstructured, and document-based data.
- Awareness of AI governance, risk, and compliance in regulated environments.
- Proficiency in Python and AI frameworks for LLMs and agents.
- Experience with prompt engineering, evaluation techniques, structured outputs, vector databases, embeddings, and retrieval-augmented generation patterns.
- Working knowledge of API integration and tool execution within agent workflows.
- Exposure to model deployment and observability concepts sufficient to operate within pipelines.
- Databricks proficiency is preferred.
- Strong problem-solving, product orientation, communication, and ability to work within architectural and governance constraints.
Benefits
- The role is located in Birmingham, Alabama or Atlanta, Georgia, with 4 days in-office and 1 day remote.
- The position falls under the Insider Threat Program and requires enhanced personnel screening, including a background review, drug screen, and psychological assessment.
Tech Stack
DatabricksPython
Categories
About Southern Company
Southern Company is an investor-owned utility holding company headquartered in Atlanta and traded on the NYSE (SO). Through subsidiaries it provides electric service in Alabama, Georgia, and Mississippi and natural gas distribution in Georgia, Illinois, Tennessee, and Virginia, serving about 9 million customers. Its portfolio spans regulated utilities and competitive generation (Southern Power), with energy from natural gas, renewables, and nuclear (including Vogtle units in Georgia).