AI Engineer

Major Tool & Machine (MTM) takes great pride in the talented people that come to work here. We offer market-leading pay and benefits, optional 9/80 work schedule, quarterly bonus potential, and a culture focused on employee engagement. As part of the Precinmac portfolio, this position will kick-off a journey into AI supporting Major Tool & Machine, with the potential to extend that support in this growing family of businesses across the U.S. and Canada.

We are proud to be an Equal Opportunity Employer. All qualified applicants will receive consideration for employment in compliance with all federal and state regulations. Major Tool & Machine provides affirmative action in employment for qualified individuals with a disability and Protected Veterans in compliance with Section 503 of the Rehabilitation Act and the Vietnam Era Veterans’ Readjustment Assistance Act.

Position Summary: This role is required to be onsite.  

The AI Engineer is an experienced technical professional who bridges business strategy with AI technology to design and implement scalable, secure AI systems to meet organizational goals. Collaboratively work with others in various areas of the company to identify appropriate use of AI, within CMMC regulations. Create blueprints for AI applications, select appropriate AI models, data pipelines and infrastructure to develop end to end AI systems.

Reports To: Director, Technology & Continuous Improvement

Personnel: not applicable

Accountabilities: Develop understanding of the business operations to integrate with AI technology solutions. Provide expertise in collaboration with stakeholders to create solutions that improve business processes and efficiencies. Ensure proper data handling, model training infrastructure and deployment.

Authorities: Not applicable.

Duties:

• Influence AI strategy and help drive AI adoption.
• Establish secure, scalable, and responsible AI architecture standards, within a CMMC certified environment. Integrate AI systems with existing IT infrastructure and ensure seamless operation. Ensure AI system designs align with enterprise data models, data governance policies, data retention standards, and lineage requirements.
• Design solutions that integrate various systems and technologies to meet business objectives. Understand business problems and identify opportunities to implement data science solutions. Architect end to end data flows, ensuring high quality data ingestion, transformation, storage, and retrieval across structured, semi structured, and unstructured data sources.
• Design AI powered and GenAI enabled applications and services to support business processes by collaborating with stakeholders, including Engineering, Operations, support functions, and other IT professionals.
• Design, develop, and deploy machine learning models and algorithms from proof of concept through production deployment.
• Develop, verify, and validate analytics to address business needs and opportunities.

• Apply lean methodologies to identify opportunities for process improvement.

Job Qualification Requirements:

Educational Experience – Bachelor’s degree in Computer Science, Data Science, Mathematics, Statistics, or Engineering. Five years or more experience deploying AI solutions at scale.

Experience – 

• Experience with Generative AI, AI Agents, or Reinforcement Learning
• Python proficiency and experience with major ML frameworks and AI platforms
• Experience in a regulated manufacturing, aerospace, or defense environment highly desired.
• Experience with MES/ERP systems, quality management systems, and manufacturing data preferred. 
• NLP/document AI

• Strong analytical and problem-solving skills, with knowledge of forecasting and data modeling.

• Experience with handling unstructured data, including images, videos, and text.

• A proactive mindset with the drive to turn ideas into measurable outcomes.
• Experience developing data and machine learning-based solutions and deploying them to production with many users

• Ability to simplify complex technical concepts and influence technical and business stakeholders.
• Strong foundational knowledge of enterprise data architecture, including data modeling (conceptual, logical, physical), metadata management, master data management (MDM), and data integration patterns.
  Physical Demands – The employee is required to:
  

• stand, walk, push, pull, reach overhead, and bend to floor
• exert 20 to 50 pounds of force occasionally, and/or
• exert 10 to 25 pounds of force frequently, and/or
• exert up to 10 pounds of force constantly to move objects.

Certification Required – None required

Visual Acuity – Accommodations as required for reading computer screens and documents.

Hearing Ability – Accommodations as required for communicating with internal and external customers.

Working Conditions – Normally works in an office environment. Occasionally the employee is subject to 

• shop floor environment
• high noise levels from operating machines
• physical hazards from moving equipment and production components
• breathing fumes, dust and mist
• skin exposure to oils and cutting fluids.
• welding flashes

The employee may be required to follow other job-related instructions and to perform other job-related duties as requested, subject to all applicable state and federal laws.

Attendance is an essential job function. After hours / weekend support occasionally required.

Employees will operate in compliance of all recognized standards that Major Tool adheres to (such as AS9100, ISO 9000), including all supporting policies and procedures.