Senior AI Engineer I

RWE Americas LLC
To start as soon as possible full time permanent

Functional area: IT / Digital
Remuneration: Exempt

The Senior AI Engineer I is a hands-on engineer accountable for end-to-end AI capabilities within a product or across multiple products from design and build through operation in production. Scope includes retrieval and context assembly model and agentic logic integration with source systems and consuming applications monitoring and evaluation and operational runbook maintenance. Depth is expected in two or three of these capability areas with working familiarity across the rest.

The role also covers the engineering that makes these capabilities trustworthy in business use. This includes evaluation and regression testing human-in-the-loop and other AI-specific security controls and accountability for inference cost and latency.

The role builds on the shared platform services and reference implementations set by the Principal AI Engineer within the target-state architecture set by the Data/AI Platform Architect. It also takes handover of capabilities built by technical delivery partners and maintains them in production.

Role Responsibilities:

• Design build operate and own end-to-end AI capabilities within a product or across multiple products spanning retrieval and context assembly; model and agentic logic; integration with source systems and consuming applications (APIs MCPs authentication); monitoring and evaluation; and operational runbook maintenance
• Train and evaluate machine learning models for well-scoped problems such as classification regression anomaly detection clustering and forecasting using operational and commercial data. Determine when and how to use ML models versus simpler statistical baselines
• Build retrieval and context pipelines against enterprise content using chunking tagging and a metadata strategy. Measure and report retrieval quality against a defined standard
• Design and maintain evaluation for these capabilities including offline evals automated scoring such as LLM-as-judge and regression tests that run on every prompt or pipeline change to ensure quality before release. Monitor quality and drift signals in production
• Own inference cost and latency in production tracking cost per transaction and end-to-end response time and profiling where that time is spent. Make tradeoffs where needed to stay within agreed targets
• Implement human-in-the-loop and AI-specific security controls including shadow and assisted modes confidence and citation surfaces override capture audit trails identity-scoped retrieval input and output guardrails tool permissions and prompt injection resistance
• Take handover of application components built by technical delivery partners: read the code close operational gaps update the runbook and maintain them in production
• Improve team efficiency by establishing reusable components and reference examples reviewing code and onboarding new engineers

Job Requirements and Experiences:

• Bachelors degree in computer science data science another STEM field or a related discipline required
• Minimum 5 years of relevant experience in software or AI/ML engineering roles including demonstrated ownership of AI or ML capabilities end to end from design through operation in a production environment
• Depth in two or three of the capability areas listed under Basic Function with working familiarity across the rest
• Production experience with Python and SQL a major cloud platform version control and code review containerized deployment and CI/CD for AI products and services
• Hands-on experience with current orchestration agent and retrieval frameworks
• Practical experience developing ML models for supervised and unsupervised problems
• Experience building and maintaining evaluation and regression testing for AI and ML systems
• Working knowledge of AI-specific security and responsible AI controls
• Competent use of coding agents and other AI-assisted tooling including scoping the right tasks for them reviewing generated code and recognizing which tasks are a poor fit for delegation
• Experience with IT/OT environments industrial data sources or operational technology systems is preferred
• Experience in the power utilities or clean energy sector including knowledge of U.S. power markets renewable project development and clean energy technologies is preferred

Work Envuironment

This position is an office-based role with some travel and visits to other RWE Americas offices and field locations. The employee must be able to sit walk or stand for long durations of time

Applicants must be legally authorized to work in the United States. RWE Americas is unable to sponsor or take over sponsorship of employment visas at this time.

Pay range: The annual base salary range for this position in Illinois is $127000 - $171000. The listed salary range represents our good faith estimate for this position and represents the range for new hire salaries across all U.S locations. Please note that the salary information is a general guideline only. RWE considers factors such as (but not limited to) scope and responsibilities of the position candidates education & work experience training & certifications and key skills as well as market and business considerations at the time of the offer.

Benefits offered: Medical Dental Vision Life Insurance Short-Term Disability Long-Term Disability 401(k) match Flexible Spending Accounts EAP Education Assistance Parental Leave Paid time off and Holidays. Eligible employees also participate in short-term incentives in addition to salary.

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RWE Americas a subsidiary of RWE is a US-based energy company that is helping to meet the growing demand for energy across the United States. Backed by RWEs 125-year global legacy of managing diverse power assets RWE Americas operates approximately 13 GW of power projects across 27 a talented workforce of 2000 employees RWE Americas develops constructs and operateswind solar and battery storage projects along with natural gas-powered generation that safely deliver affordable reliable electricity to our customers. Committed to responsible development RWE Americas invests in local and rural communities creating jobs and partnering with stakeholders to support and strengthen the places where we live and work. Learn more about how RWE Americas is generating impact at .

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