Senior AI Engineer – Forward Deployed, Agent Platform (REMOTE)

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Position Purpose

Embed with THD Business Verticals: Partner directly with Finance, Marketing, Supply Chain, Online, Store Ops, HR, and Legal/Risk, etc., to turn ambiguous operational processes into production-ready, enterprise-governed AI agents.

Educate & Enable: Teach verticals what surfaces they can deploy on (Gemini Enterprise, Google ADK, Skills, Agent Designer, MCP servers, Canvas, Agent Gateway/Registry) and how to manage and evolve their agents. Consult business on technical approaches to build agents.

Drive Adoption & Reuse: Grow Gemini Enterprise adoption across the enterprise – team agents, individual Sparks, and a marketplace of reusable enterprise agents, Skills and tools. Treat every engagement as supply for the marketplace and actively promote reuse so teams compose existing assets before building new ones.

Explicit Scope Guardrail: Foundation models are consumed as managed services—no pre-training/fine-tuning models, no GPU/CUDA kernel work, and no classical feature stores or model registries.

Responsibilities

Embed & Discover Workflows: Sit with non-technical business partners to elicit requirements, define negative scope ("what the agent must never do"), and lock in acceptance criteria before coding.

Build & Deploy Production Agents: Ship end-to-end multi-step agents and conversational assistants in Python (FastAPI), Google ADK, and Gemini Enterprise, including Human-in-the-Loop (HITL) confirmation gates for write actions.

Engineer Enterprise Integrations & MCP Servers: Build resilient MCP servers and REST integrations for enterprise systems (e.g. Jira, Confluence, SharePoint/M365, Slack, ServiceNow, Salesforce, etc.) with strict OAuth/IAM boundaries, idempotency, retries, and High Availability patterns; publish them as reusable assets in the enterprise marketplace.

Establish Reusable Evaluation Harnesses: Build workflow-level golden datasets, prompt/agent evaluations, and automated regression suites so business owners have an objective pass/fail gate.

Templatize & Build the Paved Road: Extract reusable templates, Skills, and packaging standards from every build so the second vertical build takes ≤60% of the effort of the first.

Review Submissions & Govern Quality: Review partner-submitted agent code, company Skills, and prompt implementations for the Agent Sharing & Registry workflow against engineering, security, and Responsible AI standards;curate the marketplace so published agents, Skills and tools are discoverable, documented and trusted.

Execute Ownership Handoff & Enablement: Author runbooks and enablement materials, verify receiving-owner readiness, and cleanly transfer day-to-day operations to the vertical.

Feed Platform Architecture: Convert recurring vertical needs into scoped backlog items for the core APEX platform (Gateway/Registry, Model Armor guardrails, observability, and lifecycle management).

Enable Builders & Grow Adoption: Support product to run technical workshops, office hours; review low-code agents built by business teams; maintain documentation and a pattern library; and use usage data and feedback to improve adoption and the platform.

Key Responsibilities

70% Delivery and Execution - Collaborates and pairs with other product team members (UX, engineering, and product management) to create secure, reliable, scalable machine learning solutions; Documents, reviews, and ensures that all quality and change control standards are met; Works with Product Team to ensure user stories that are developer-ready, easy to understand, and testable; Writes custom code or scripts to automate infrastructure, monitoring services, and test cases; Writes custom code or scripts to do "destructive testing" to ensure adequate resiliency in production; Configures commercial off the shelf solutions to align with evolving business needs; Creates meaningful dashboards, logging, alerting, and responses to ensure that issues are captured and addressed proactively