AI Agent Engineer (Controls)
Ford Motor24 hours ago
USA (city not specified)Senior / Staff+
H1B sponsor
Base Salary
$87k - $166k/yr
Responsibilities
- Build agents that classify issues, plan investigations, call tools, and draft recommendations.
- Design multi-step and multi-agent workflows with clear hand-offs and stopping rules.
- Maintain prompts, tool definitions, and retrieval logic.
- Connect agents to production, quality, and maintenance data through CoreMesh.
- Rank and filter evidence, show sources in outputs, and flag low-confidence or missing data for human review.
- Test agents against shared evaluation sets, analyze failures, and improve accuracy, cost, and response time.
- Work with supervisors and engineers at Kentucky Truck Plant to understand real-world problem-solving workflows.
Requirements
- Bachelor’s degree in Computer Science, Data Science, Engineering, Statistics, or a related field, or equivalent experience.
- At least 6–8 years of production experience in data science, machine learning engineering, or software engineering.
- Experience with manufacturing controls.
- Hands-on experience with large language models, 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 quality problem-solving, 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, and subsidized backup child care.
- Family-building benefits including adoption, surrogacy, and fertility-treatment assistance.
- Vehicle discount programs for employees and family members, plus management leases.
- Tuition assistance and active employee resource groups.
- Paid time off for individual and team community service, vacation, sick/personal time, and paid holidays.
- Hybrid work arrangement requiring onsite work four or more days per week at the Manufacturing Technology Development Center in Redford, MI.
Tech Stack
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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.