Applied AI Engineer

Position Summary:

The Applied Artificial Intelligence Engineer will build and deploy practical AI applications that improve commercial performance - including quoting pricing contract review pipeline management capacity planning and forecasting.

Primary Duties & Responsibilities:

This role is focused on the front end of the business partnering directly with Sales Finance Operations Quality and Engineering leadership to turn data into faster better decisions. This role will build solutions that are embedded in daily workflows and deliver measurable business outcomes.

Work Mix:

• 5060%: Build and maintain AI applications (Databricks-based)
• 4050%: Work directly with sales finance and operations

Core Responsibilities

• Partner with Sales Finance Operations Quality and Engineering to identify high-value AI use cases for analysis summarization and action recommendation. Examples include but not limited to:
  • Market and opportunity summaries
  • Guided quoting and pricing guardrails deal books similar deal insights
  • Pipeline and forecast intelligence dashboards SIOP inputs
  • Daily sales TOC dashboard
  • Contract Review
  • Quality disposition and RCCA
  • OCR extraction of records in varying format into centralized database
• Build and deploy AI-enabled applications using Databricks
• Integrate data across CRM CPQ ERP and contract systems
• Embed tools directly into commercial workflows (not standalone dashboards)
• Lead pilots end-to-end (design test launch sustain)
• Train users and drive adoption within real business routines
• Ensure accuracy governance and compliance (AS9100 / ITAR / DFARS)
• Align with Corporate and Division IT on AI standards and controls
• Report measurable improvements in revenue margin and forecast performance
• Creating evaluations and using observability tools to measure and monitor performance

Success in this role will be measured through business impact including improvements in quote cycle time forecast accuracy pricing effectiveness commercial productivity capacity planning and margin performance.

Required Skills:

• Databricks (SQL Delta Lake Model Serving Unity Catalog)
• AI capabilities: LLM APIs LLM agent development prompt engineering RAG workflows
• Strong SQL and Python (or equivalent)
• Familiarity with APIs Git and application deployment
• Data exploration and analysis
• ETL/ELT workflows

Experience & Education

• Bachelors degree in Computer Science Software Engineering Computer Engineering Artificial Intelligence Data Science Mathematics Statistics Physics or related discipline. Masters degree preferred.
• 3-6 years developing complex applications
• 2 years of AI/ML experience
• Experience with CRM and/or CPQ systems strongly preferred
• Experience supporting commercial or revenue operations is a plus
• Experience with fine-tuning models for specific tasks
• Experience with vector databases embeddings evaluation frameworks AI observability and production LLM application architectures.
• Manufacturing analytics
• Quality analytics and root-cause analysis
• ERP systems (Syteline Infor SAP Oracle Epicor etc.)

Working Style

• Strong business translatorturns commercial problems into scalable solutions
• Drives adoptionnot just delivery
• Focused on building tools that are actively used and that deliver P&L results

Physical Demands

The physical demands described here are representative of those that must be met by an employee to successfully perform the essential functions of this job. Reasonable accommodation may be made to enable individuals with disabilities to perform the essential functions.

While performing the duties of this job the employee is regularly required to walk sit and talk or hear. The employee frequently is required to stand and use hands to finger handle or feel. The employee is occasionally required to reach with hands and arms; climb or balance; and stoop kneel crouch or crawl. The employee must occasionally lift and/or move up to 35 pounds. Specific vision abilities required by this job include close vision distance vision color vision peripheral vision depth perception and ability to adjust focus.

Work Environment

The work environment characteristics described here are representative of those an employee encounters while performing the essential functions of this job. Reasonable accommodation may be made to enable individuals with disabilities to perform the essential functions.

This position is California based in the Los Angeles and/or Orange County area. Approximately 25% travel is required for sales engagement working sessions and deployments. Expect higher travel intensity during build/launch phases.

While performing the duties of this job the employee is occasionally exposed to moving mechanical parts fumes or airborne particles extreme heat risk of electrical shock and vibration. The noise level in the work environment is typically moderate.

Shultz Steel LLC is an equal opportunity employer. The companys policy and practice is to provide equal employment opportunities and to assure those opportunities without regard to age sex (including pregnancy childbirth breastfeeding or related medical conditions gender race color creed national origin ancestry sexual orientation including gender identity or gender expression religion (including religious dress and religious grooming) mental or physical disability legally protected medical condition genetic information marital status military or veteran status reproductive decision making or any other status protected by applicable local state or federal anti-discrimination laws.