Sr AI Engineer
Role Overview
Senior hands-on technical builder in AI Engineering, translating business opportunities into production-ready AI solutions and reusable capabilities.
The role raises engineering standards through code review and mentorship of junior AI engineers.
Key Skills for This Role
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Role overview
Senior hands-on technical builder in AI Engineering, translating business opportunities into production-ready AI solutions and reusable capabilities.
The role raises engineering standards through code review and mentorship of junior AI engineers.
What you'll do
- Design and deploy machine learning, generative AI, and agentic solutions, including RAG, assistants, copilots, predictive analytics, and workflow automation.
- Lead code reviews and coach junior employees and contractor developers.
- Turn architecture patterns into scalable implementations and feed build constraints back into architecture decisions.
- Own delivery from solution design and experimentation through production deployment and ongoing technical ownership.
- Implement MLOps, AI CI/CD, monitoring, retraining, and model lifecycle practices.
- Build reusable prompts, frameworks, AI services, and agent orchestration patterns; apply Responsible AI guardrails.
What you'll bring
- 6+ years in software or ML engineering, including 3+ years delivering production AI/ML or GenAI systems.
- Deep Python and modern AI stack experience, including LLM orchestration frameworks, vector databases, feature stores, RAG pipelines, and agent frameworks.
- Strong cloud engineering background in model hosting, AI development environments, containerized deployment, MLOps, and CI/CD.
- Track record leading code reviews and mentoring engineers in a delivery team.
- Ability to work with architects to take designs and patterns into production.
Benefits and culture
- Benefits include medical, dental, vision, retirement matching, tuition assistance, learning opportunities, employee assistance programs, inclusive leaves, and paid time off.
- Nutrien describes a safety-focused, integrity-led, collaborative culture and purpose-driven work supporting agriculture.
Additional hiring information
The position remains posted until filled; background checks and possibly substance testing may be required.
Prescreen interviews may be transcribed and AI tools may summarize transcripts; the tools are not used to make or influence hiring decisions.
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